The type-case is usually long, for the purpose of allowing all the type-pieces to be spread out.

The type runs up and down in a column, and you read from right to left as in Hebrew or other Shemitic languages.

The characters are as old in form as the days of Confucius.

The "Chung Sai Yat Po" has a very large circulation and finds its way to the islands of the Pacific Ocean and into China.
From the newspaper office we wended our way to a little Baptist mission chapel for the Chinese.

There were about forty persons congregated here, among them some ten or twelve Americans who were teaching the Chinese the English language.