The daily gazette., 1874-11-28
China and Its People.

On Iiudy SVeulug, MI. w Ong, an
Intelligent Chinee, lectured about one
hour at the Opera House on "China
and its People," Only some two hun.
dred persons attended. At Col. A. H.
Grimshaw's suggestion, the audience
mostly congregated right in front of
the speaker. Rev. Fielder Israel in
troduced the distinguished foreigner
with some remarks as to the ideas our
people entertained of China, that IL
was, enclosed by a high wall which now
has been broken down., .-sxaS--.-
MIR. Wong after referring to his in
PRODUCTION said:-The Chinee nation is
misrepresented by many lecturers. His
object was to remove the many strong
prejudices and misunderstandings II
Is not correct idea that the Chinese
are uncivilized. Their civilization is
OF peculiar kind, in America, the
Chinese are mostly of the lower clas-
ses OF society. The Chinee civilization
Is just tae reverse of the Anglo-Ameri-
can, whatever people here consider
nice and agreeable, the Chinee thinks
just the reverse. The Chinese do not
shake hands with each other to show
friendship-they squeeze their own
hands. The Chinec considers the man
with large body the same as people
head. Chinese point to the South, while
here, the north is pointed to. The
first thing little children there are
taught in school is how to sit down and
commence conversation;not to learn a,
b, c, as in this land. They arc taught
to behave themselves. There, no mat
ter how ignorant man may be, he
knows civility, not only in speaking
but in action. They there don't teach
children so many famous things as ma
thematics, geoprahy, music, &c. The
fine great principles, among which are
gratitude, sincerity, propriety, and
piety, are taught instead. The Chinese
are not behind in mathematics. -Four
or five weeks is sufficient time there to
learn the whole principles of mathema-
tics. ia chinec were to be told it
would take three or four years to learn
it, he would laugh at it. Mr.. Wong
exhibited calculating machine, which
enables person to perform arithmetic
seventy five times faster than it is done
under the European system. He per
formed several sums in addition and
leven wanted the audience to give col.
umn OF figures as high as from floor to
Iceiling. One sum of some 20 quaint.
ties amounted to 1884 which result
was announced as soon as the numbers
had been called off. The Chinee Ian
guage, instead of being made up Of
26 letters, has 900 characters, cacl
character representing whole words
THE construction of the language wa
). explained, This literature is abou
four thousand years old.
| Mr.. Wong spoke OF social life inChin
The education of females there Is con
sidered as important as il Is here. Lit
tie children have great affection fo
their mothers. Females are howeve
, kept secluded-which there Is the sam
+ as their publicity here. People in Chi
> ma get married seventy five times fas
ter than here.
l. There, they marry first and low
afterwards. The management of nur
!, tials was described. The small fec
of chinee women was referred to an
specimens of slipers, four or five inche
J. long, were shown. In China me
o have as many wives as they are abl
!; to take care of the Emperor alone b'
u ing limited in the number of his wive
q In China, mans goodness and capa'
b ity, gives him power-absolute powe
l. but, it is obtained only after severe c.
& aminations. The Chinee method {
distributing justice was also referre
2. to. The religion of the philosophy
Confucius was adverted to. ChiI
y has 450, ,000, 900 people.