Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1881 — Adventures of an American Girl Abroad. [ARTICLE]

Adventures of an American Girl Abroad.

Im York WorM. A story comes from Yokohama by way of San Francisco, relating the adventures of a young woman connected with the family of one of .the commissioners sent out by the American government to secure modifications in the treaty, with China. The young woman alluded to visited the jewelry shop of Mishashiya, in Yokohama, an<f though she purchased nothing, die carried oft one of the three very oddly-shaped and peculiar-ly-finished lockets. 'Hils locket she Eve to an English officer who had en a passenger In the same ship which toek the American commissioner to Yokohama. The jewelel* saw the locket on the ‘guard of the English officer, and it was soon made known that the young American woman had given it to him. The jeweler had the young woman taken before the American consul, who, investigated the case and tried to pacify the jeweler by telling him that the taking of the* locket was a case of kleptomania. The Japanese consulted a dictionary, but his limited knowledge of English did wot enable him to distinguish between kleptomania and stealing, so he placed In his show window a card bearing on it in large letters this legend: ? ‘By American law kleptomania is no crime.”