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il. L. Cox. Deputy Sherift.
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miliar with airs can play hundreds of
tunes without any cards whatever. The
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than the Speaking Telephone as it does
all that it will do besides instructing per
sons who do not underitand notes to
to olav tunes. “N.Y.Sun.” The Mu
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“N- Y, Herald.” Price $2.50 Price by
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ELLIJAY, GA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1882.
Speak Kindly,
BY CARRIE E. WETMCTIE.
Never touch the name of others
With the slightest word of shame,
Pause before your tongue has blighted
Many lives of glorious fame.
Oh ! you know not how unkiudness
May fori ver mar some life,
Know not how a seed of malice
May commence an awful strife.
There are many whose weak natures
Sink beneath such cruel blows.
Many who can’t strike out boldly.
In such hearts the hardness grow.
Pause,oh, cruel tongue, whose stinging
May but pierce a no'le heart,
Malice ne’er will leave us harmless.
Sure will poison with its dart.
• Let no word, if not of kindness,
Fall into ano'ber’s life.
Do not make earth’s burdens harder
By thus adding to its strife.
PRINTING.
The art of printing, which is
the grandest source of enlighten
ment and knowledge in the
world, has been practiced, in its
rudest forms, from remote antiq
uity. Among the ruins in Egypt,
bricks have been found witli
mystic characters impressed in
(he clay. By the Israelites, seals
and Bignels were used, and, in
later periods, the Romans used
stamDS or brands for marking
merchandies or cattle with the
owner’s name. The Roman in
scriptions still in existence ap
pear like rude printing, and it is
supposed that a passage in Cice
ro, De Natura Deorum , giving
directions regarding types in
metal, called by him forrneo lit
erarum, suggested the idea to
the inventors. It is remarkable
that the ancients should
have approached so near the in
vention of types, without their
being brought inlo use until the
fifteenth cenlury. Among the
Chinese, Japanese Tarlars, the
printing of books from blocks of
wood had been practiced from
remote periods. Their method
was lo paste paper upon the face
of the block, draw upon it the
character desired, and then cul
out the wood not covered by the
drawing. The face of the drawing
was then covered with ink, and
an impression taken. This meth
od was practiced by the Germans
for manuscript work earley in the
fifteenth century, though the
time and place of ils invention is
not known with certainly. It is
claimed that Laurens Janszoon
Coster invented the art of print
ing in Haarlem, Holland, in the
year 1423, using movable types
of wood, and later led and tin.
No work of his has been identi
fied. In the year 1438, Johannes
Gutinburg, of Strasbourg, Ger
many, after secret experimental
researches, in vented a press, and,
it is claimed, movable types. In
the year 1450, or thereabouts, he
returned to his native cily,Mentz,
and there associated himseil
with one Johann Faust, who eu
tered into copartnership with him
and furnished funds for the de
velopment of the invention. A
scribe, whose previous occupation
nad been the copying of books,
was employed lo assist them,and,
being a man of genius, was well
fitted to present the result of
their labors, to the public. He
afterwards invented a mode of
making types of metal, those in
vented and used by Guteuburg
being of wood. - These inventors
printed a number of books, the
first of which is kuown to have
been printed with movable types,
being three editions of Donatus.
The first work known to have
been printed with a date was the
“Litterce Induigenttoe Nicolia V.
Pont. Max.,” which was complet
ed in a single page in the year
1455. In 1402 these operations
were stopped by liie capture ot
Mentz by Adolphus, of Nassau,
and the printers were driven inlt>
other states. Printing presses
were in operation ir. Subiaco.
near Rome, in the year 1465, the
Ivpe* used being more like
our Roman Ilian the forms of Ihe
German. In the year 1469 print
ing was introduced inlo Milan
and Venice; in 1470 into Piris,
and in 1474 into London. Before
the year 1500. printing presses
were in operation in 220 places
in Europe, and editions of the
classical works were given to the
world. In Milan, in Ihe year
1476. a Greek grammar was print
ed ; and the first work in Roman
types, complete, was Cicero’s
“Episfoloe Familiares,” printed
at Rome in the vear 1467.
At Cimbridge, in the year 1639,
(lie first printing press was intro
duced into the United Stales. In
Ihe year 1750, one John Barker
ville, living in Birmingham,
England, invented punches for
cutting types.and produced those
of elegant proportions. After his
death in ihe year 1775, his inven
lions and types were purchased
for the spleniid edition of Vol
taire’s works published by Beau
marchais. The art was sustained
by Bulwer, w’hose editions of
Shakespeare and Milton are
among the first specimens of ty
pography ever executed. Cases
for the types have been inventen
at different times, until they are
now as nearly perfect a& possible,
the object of the inventors hav
ing been to lessen the move
ments of the hand. From these
cases (which have lo be learned,
the letters not being placed al
phabetically) the types are set
inlo the composing stick, a little
iron tray, until it is filled. From
the stick they are placed in a
galley until Ihe article is set up,
from which they are placed in the
form A number of machines
have been invented for the set
ting of type, and others for dis
tributing. A few machines have
put in successful operation, but
they are not in general use.
A rude form of sterotyping, an
art which has completely revolu
tionized newspaper printing, was
invented early in the eighteenth
century by Van Der Mev. in Lev
den, who formed Hie types into
solid plates by soldering the low
er ends together, and by this
means printed several editions
of the Bible in the Dutch lan
guage. Thin method Droved a
failure, for the reason that the
types once used in this process
could not be used again. The
honor of inventing a procees of
sterotyping by which the types
could be used again is claimed by
Win. Ged of Edinburg, Scotland,
who is said to have made it pub
lic in 1725. This process failed
owing to the opposition of type
founders, and ils true merit was
not made known. In 1795, M.
Fermin Didot improved upon the
process of Van Der Mey. Im
pressions of the types were taken
upon smooth sheets of lead, and
matrices were obtained in this
way from which reverse impres
sions could be made in type met
al. Not long after this a better
method was invented by Earl
Stanhope, and it has been used
to soino extent. He has made
a plaster cast from a page set up
in ordinary type, except that the
spaces and quadrats were the
same height as the body type.
The cast upon being removed
was exposed iu an oven heated
400 F. It was then placed face
downward in an iron box, the
cover of which was secured and
the whole immersed in the melt
ed metal. The metal flowing in,
worked under the heated mold,
and raised it and the floating
plate upon which it rested against
the cover. When taken out the
bottom was set in water to cool
before the upper surface, while
more metal w’as poured into the
top to keep up a pressure against
the plaster. When cool the pias
ter cast broken up and the plate
dressed by plaining the back and
edges. This plate was about one
s xth of an inch in thickness, and
was backed with wood to make
it the thickness of type. By this
method a plate could not be
made quickly enough for the use
of the large daily papers, and a
very neat method, (he paper
process, which was invented in
Fiance, is now practiced on all
the principal newspapers in Eu
rope and America. It wa first
employed an the London Times,
and in America, in the year 1861,
on the New York Tribune. The
forms are set up in one page,
from which (he paper casts are
made. The matrices are made
of thick blotting paper of the
proper size, a sheet of which is
laid upon a table, and, wiih a
brush dipped in a composition
paste, a sheet of prepared paper
is pasted on if. When this is
done, four sheets of tissue paper
and a composition are added to it
successively. When this is done
Ihe matrices are laid upon the
form, and beaten with a stiff
brush until it becomes set to the
shoulders of the type. Woolen
clothes are laid over the matrix
i and form, and the chase placed
UDon a hollow steam table under
a press, which is tightly screwd
down. By this means a peifect
impress of the type is obtained
upon the face of the matrx. The
process occupies a very short
time, when the matrix is removed
and dried thoroughly under a
blow pipe of lighted gas. The
matrix is then placed in the
mold, which is made concave, the
curve conforming to the curve of
cylinder of the press upon which
the paper is lo be printed. The
cover of ihe mould is convex, and
around the edges of'tiie matrix is
an iron frame to secure it and
keep il from moving. The metal
is poured in at Ihe end, the mold
being upon pivots so that it may
he made to stand upright. When
filed the mould is turned down
and the raged end of the plate,
which becomes set almost imme
diately, broken off with a mallet.
The form is then put upon a ma
chine made expressly for the
purpose, and cut inlo proper
length. When this is done it is
placed upon another machine
face downward, and plated
smoothly, and is then ready for
the press.
I he lime occupied by these operations
vary accrrding to the machinery used.
By the latest improved machinery, a ster
eotyper employed on a prominent Boston
daily paper has been able to make a plate
and prepare it for the press in eight min
utes an J fifty-eight seconds from the time
the form was received in the stereotyping
department, 'these plates may be used
for editions ot JOQO.OOO or 2000,000 cop
ies, and the rapidity with which papers are
printed by this process upon presses made
expressly for this process is marvelous.
Such is, substantially, the history of the
art which has doue so much to improve
the condition of mankind, and which has
led the human race from a state of mental
darkness into the light. May its future
progress be aa rapid and as fruitful as its
past.—Ex.
Wine a Foe to Women.
Of the worst foes that woman
ever had to encounter, wine
stands at the head. The appe
tite for strong drind in man has
spoiled the lives of more vomeo l
—ruined more hopes for them,
scattered more fortunos for them,
broupht to them more sorrow,
shame, and hardship—than any
other evil that lives. The coun
try numbers tens of thousands—
nay, hundreds of thousands of
women who are widows to day,
and sit in hopeless weeds because
their husbands have been slain
by strong drink. There are hun
dreds of thousands of homes
scattered all over tlie land, iu
which women live lives of tor
ture, going through all the
changes suffering that lie be
tween the extremes of fear and
despair, because those whom
they love, love wine better than
they do the woman they have
s-worn to love.— Dr Holland.
VOL. YU. .NO. 1.
WHEN TO SLEEP.
Healthy and Unhealthy Slumber.
The happy faculty of sleeping
and waking at short notice may
be utilized for the purpose of
taking little naps whenever op
portunity offers—in the last half
of the noon hour, of the noontide
recess, or during the buncombe
interludes of a protracted ses
sion. Inhabitants of all inter
tropical countries make the time
of repose a notable festival, and
during the dog days of our tor
pid summers it would clearly be
ihe best plan to imitate their ex
ample. ‘‘Children must not sleep
in the daytime,” says a by-law of
our time-dishonored koran of do
mestic Bupei6lHionß, and, not sat
isfied with keeping our little one3
a; school during the drowsy after
noons of the summer solstice, we
increase their misery by stuffing
them at the very noon of the hot
test hours with a mass ot greasy
(i. e., heat producing and sopo
rific) food.
An hour after the end'of the
long, sultry day comes the cool
night wind, heaven’s own bles
sing for ail who hunger and thirst
after fresh air; buC no, “night
air is injurious;” besides Mrs.
Grundy objects to promenades
after dark, so that the children
are driven to their suffocating,
unvenlilatcd bed-rooms, not to
sleep, but to swelter HU toward
midnight, when drowsiness sub
sides into a sort of lethargy,
which yields only to broad day
light 1 three or four hours after
sunrise. "So much the better,”
| says the fashionable mother, who
’ lias passed the night at ail ice
cream ridotto, “the morning air
isn’t healthy either; most dan
gerous to leave the house before
the dew is off the grass.”
Only the curse of pessimism,
our woeful distrust of our natural
instincts, can explain such ab
surdities. Tiie parched palate’s
petition for a cooling liquid is no
plainer than the brain's craving
for rest and slumber when a high
temperature adds its somniferous
tendency to the drowsy mflueuce
of a full meal- On warm sum
mer days all nature indulges iu a
noontide nap; I have walked
through tropical forests that were
as silent under the rays of a ver
tical sun as a Norwegian pine
grove in the dead ot a polar night;
nor would it be easy to name a
single animal that does not ap
pear sleepy after meals.
At noon leaf trees throw their
densest shade; even butterflies
seek the penetralia of the foliage
and lizards cling lazily to the
dark side of tlie lower branches;
every school teacher knows that
the children feel the drowsy spell
of the aiternoon sun; why should
they alone be hurt by yielding to
its prompting* Either postpone
the principal meal to the end of
the day, or increase the noontide
recess to at least three hours, so
is to leave time for a digestive
siesta.
The devil feats nothing so
much as a brave man—unless it
is a brave woman.
Alcohol does not contaiu any
of the elements of food, and
therefore is not useful in devel
oping bone, nor muscle, nor
blood, uor brain, nor any part of
the human body.— Dr. Story.
Many girls marry drinking
men, trusting to their own indi
vidual power of reform after mar
riage. De not trust yourselves,
girls, to any such ideas. Many
homes are samples of what these
efforts have been. Reform be
fore marriage is safer than re
form after. — Sel.
Remember, young ladies, that
many a man dates his downward
course along that steep path that
leads to a drunkard's grave from
that glass of wiue which some
young lady insisted he should
drink with her, on New Year’s
Day. And make it certain that
no suoh sin shall ever be laid. to
your charge, by never offering
the poisonous cup.
