Show 1 1 chiaese type aua and books we enjoyed the pleasure yesterday of meeting and conversing with mr richard cole a gentleman who has spent the past nine years in china during this time lie he has devoted himself to demonstrating by successful experiment that the chinese language can be printed by moveable moveably mOve able type he spent two or three years in fit now new york in in preparing ty type pe and when lie left carried with him a fout font sufficient to print books he has left with us lib a specimen book of three line diamond chinese type which contains about different chinese characters these cypel were all cut and cast by mr cole ho also printed the first book on type ever published in in the Cd celestial estial empire mr C took his family with w ith him to china they are now at san francisco Fian cisco and his bis wife and children acquired a sufficient knowledge of chinese to on able them to speak the language in in the family circle while in china mr cole was tt as in the employ of the presbyterian Presby foreign missionary society unta 1847 at which time tie he resigned and entered the service sen ice of the lobon london Mission missionary my boci soci ay ty As these societies do not pay very liberally for services sei vices gendered ien lende dered red and make no provision for foi those in their arvice sor sr vice loe after leaving then their employ it is is not likely he lias has acquired a large share of this thih worlds goods he has luid on our table a book giving a narrative of a mission of inquiry to the jewish synagogue at K AE AB F fang ang foo in in the provi province nde of honan this journey j was taken in consequent 0 o of rumors which had been current for years that a jewish colony existed in the heart hear t of china supposed to be a remnant of the ten lost tubes tribes of israel the r result of this visit was the chri collection of proofs pi goofs positive that a colony c lony of jews had lived and do thus live in that city as an entire book has been filled with characters copied from tablets in the synagogue gog rue and from jewish dewish scrolls obtained in t the he city nir mr cole has with him a small assortment of books relating to china among them an all english and chinese n ese vocabulary y from which a pet pei son soil i nay may dei deavo ive a very good idea of the structure and use of the coall I 1 language his books are of exceeding interest to all a those who wish to obtain information of the cli climate nuite and the language mr C may be found at tho the store of haskell co on K between third and foi fourth irth St streets roots weekly cal union march 26 |