Seventy hands are sometimes employed on a single cup.

The Chinese are very skilful in working horn and ivory.

Large lanterns are made of horn, transparent and without a flaw.

At Birmingham men have tried with machines to cut ivory in the same manner as the Chinese, and have failed.
Sec.3.Life and Character of Confucius.
Of this nation the great teacher for twenty-three centuries has been Confucius.

He was born 551 B.C., and was contemporary with the Tarquins, Pythagoras, and Cyrus.