Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-14

and Rome and Byzauuum bave ris-
en-, and ruled, and passed away.
Race has followed race and new
languages have chased away the old
iii every land but one, that between
the HImal vas and the yellow Sea.
In tina, country there has been no
change save 10y the normal develop
meut of native faculties and the
progress of original tendencies acted
upon 10y the uDchanglng agencies OF
soil and climate, and fixed by the
utter absence of fusion or admlXture
with races of different mould.
If there had existed, from the
beginning of time, no other people
on ,he face of the earth, the charac-
ter of the Chinese would scarcely
have been different from what it is
They separated from the world in an
infancy whose speech was in monosyl-
tables, aud which ,as We shall see, had
not vet learned the use of some of the
crudest of the implements of human
toll. They spread i'll scattered set
Elements that gradually broadened
and touched and coalesced. They
repealed the Tartar to the north ;
RI hey drove the olorigines southwark
and westward flom the irrlSable
lands. Slow, laborlous and patient,
obedlent with superstIlious obedi-
euce to the elders whose age gave
them experience and made them
conservative, they invented for each
difficulty only a remedy that met it's
sharpest detriment and rested con
tent without thought or care for
more. In arts, in letters, in Gus
toms, every advance from the very
outset was self-evolved, sprang from
some cause ing'ained and inherent
in the race itself and it's conditions
OF existence; and each, in its time
and place, instead of revolutionizing,
inten ;itied and perpetua ed the CHAR
acter that gave it birth. 1t is not
without utility that we may trace
the development of this peculiar Ia e
aud note the tixednsss of the mental
moral and physical type, the fixed
ness of social and political ins;itu-
tons due to strong but course
racial individuality at the outset, and
an environment that, supplying all
physical needs, left that individuali-
ty to work out its tendencies without
hind,ance or modification.
Nothing affords more facile proofs
of the common origin of races, now
remote from each other, than does
the identi Y of terms applied to the
necrssaries of life, and the similarity
of the rude implements by which the
simple operations of industry are
performed. The former has shown
the primal unity of Sanscrit and
Zend, and traced to it's farthesl
source the origin of the Arpan PEG.
pies; the latter shows that the arts
of craftsmen had reached a certain ex
cellence before the European parted
company with the natives of India
But 10y neither of these clues can ally
connection be traced between China
and other lands. The language
even in its simplest roots, has nc
analogue; and the implements OF
industry have characteristic forms
that demonstrate their origin to be
distinct. The anvil of the Chinese
smith is not flat like the anvils Of
| ~ hAr nf,.,n Inf ~
face or working surface, and the
bellows of Chinese forge, instead
of moving vertically, has a horizon
tai stroke. The paper of the Chinese
is thin and weak, is printed on one
side only, bnt doubled to present {
folded edge at the Tim of the leaf
and n printed surface on each side
The chain-pump of China has {
square barrel that Of other lands i.
cylindric Brass is made elsewhere
by melting together copper and Zinc
in a crucible; in China by suspend
ing thin sheets of copper, heated al
most to melting, in the vapor o
molten zinc. The German-silver o
Europe is made by combining tn,
materials in their metallic condition
| its Chinese equivalent by mingline
the ores of the metals and reducing
them together to produce the alloy
Spangles are made, not by cutting
or stamping from sheet metal, but b,
hattenlng wire first bent into annula
form. Pewter vessels are not cast
but are shaped by hammering upol
u block. The primitive mill used il
many countries-in Normandy fo
crushing apples for cider, in Soutl
America for pulverisinS ores, in on
own country for powdering the scori,
of assaying pots, and composed of ,
wheel travelling in a groove or chan
mel has, among western nations, it.
wheel running continuously III a cir
cular track around IL vertical axis
in China its wheel working to anC
! fro in Il semicircular track, anC
around q horizontal centre of move
ment. Chinese lanterns are no
made Of horn, like those used by thu
Romans, or of perforated metal al
long since in our own country, or O
glass, as is now universal, but are o.
vanished paper stretched on bamboo
frames, sometimes Of little cost fol-
the multitude, sometimes of grea
intrinsic worth and blazoned will
titles, for the mandarins. Tue do
nestle industry of other lands has
obtained the healthful acid of vine
gar from the acetic fermentation o.
the sweet juices of fruits; the Chinese
by placing in water the sea polypus
found along the coasts. Fish cul
ture, now matter of government
solicitude in our own and Other
countries, is old in China; but the
Chinese fish culturisl puts the spawn
in an egg-shell and places it under
a sitting fowl, and after due delay
breaks the smell into water warmed
by the sun. These are not tritles
They show that in the earliest period
of her existence, China drew moth