THE PRINTING PRESS. THE REVOLUTION WHICH TOOK PLACE SEVENTY YEARS AGO, Aa Account of the First Printing Done by Steam ~The Triumph Achieved by Koenig, of Saxony —1, 100 : Coples an Hour, {Nineteenth Century.) At the luginning of the century The “Times was ut the bottom of the list of London moming journals as regards the mumlers soxd. its contemporaries belag raoked as follows in proportion to their eirculation: 1) The Morning Chronicle, (2) The Morning Post, (8) The Morning Herald, 4 The Morning Advertiser. The circuation of The Times did not then ex- ceed 1,000 siplen daily. Seven years earjer t daily clrcula- gion ot ‘The Morning Post was but 35 copios, and its progress had been rapid, yet that of The Times wus even more marveiois during the ten following rears, From having the smallest circu- I of any | ondon contemporary, the circulaticn of The Times became so much larger than that of any of them that the pr, WT printing appliances proved in adequate to provide the copies for which there was a demand. When the number bought was 1,000 It was easy enough to supj! them with a press which turned out between 300 and 400 copies an hour, but when mary thousands were called for such a press proved wholly inadequate. Mr. Walter had made several attempts to effect improvements in the printing press. He consulted Marc Isambard Bru. nel, one of the great mechanics oi his day, who gave his best attention to the matter and then intimated bis iuability to execute what was required. Mr. Waiter ad. vanced money to Thomas Martyn, who thought he had made an important dis covery; but the ideas of Martyn were not realized in practice W hile engaged in seeking for a person who could give s ope and effect to his wishes, Friedrich hk oenig, a German, who was born at Eislelen, in Saxony, in 1/74, was laboring to effect improvements in the printing press, was confident of substituting steam for manual labor in his new press, and was anxiously waiting for an opportunity to give to his views and for a patron to counte nance and advance them. He had visited England in the hope of finding there the opening and the support which he could not obtain in his native country. He found a sympathizer in Thomas bensley, with whom he entered into an acsreement in 1:07, Two years later, when a working model of Koenig's improved press had been com pleted, Pensley brought the matter in fore Mr. Walter, who, for the moment, was 80 fully occupied with other engage ments that he could not entertain a new scheme. In 1512 Koenig had finished one of his new printing presses, and the con: ductors of the principal London journals were invited to see it in operation. Mr Perry, of The Morning Chronicle, a very shrewd man, and the editor of a most suc cessful newspaper, would not even accept the invitation, declaring that, in his opin ion, no newspaper was worth so many years’ purchase as would equal the cost of the new machine. Mr. Walter accepted the invitation, carefully ex- amined Koenig's improved press, and at once ordered two double presses on the same model. Two years elapsed before the presses were constructed and at work Rumors of the new invention were circu lated, despite the secrecy to which all concerned had been pledged, and The Times pressmen, who believed that their means of a livelihood would be at an end when steam waa applied to printing, vowed vengeance upon the inventor. The new frees were erected in rooms adjoin. ing t ue Wherein the old presses were in t At 8 o'clock in the morning of the 20th of November, 1814, Mr. Walter entered the olice with several dam printed sheets in his hand, and informed the startled pressman at work there that the “Times was already printed by steam’ that if they attempted violence there was « foree to suppress it, but that if (hey were peaceable their wages should be continned to every one of them til] similar employment, could be pro cured.” In proof of his statement he handed to them of the first which bad issued from a» steam press. The resders of that day's Times were informed of the revolution of which & was a visible token. Tritting though the speed now seem, It was then thought ast ng that a press could throw off, as Koenig's did, 1,100 copies an hous, beginning is memorable as the first step in » series of ements still more remarkable than that which was pronounced st the time to be the greatest that had been effected in the art ) Sr iadag since the discovery of the art SCODe fplendors of Ntamboal's Temples, [New York Sun A French traveler has just returoed from Btamboul with a wonderful story of the sights he saw. Le is eloquent about two thrones of enameled gold with incrusta- tions of pearls, rubles and emeralds In another room he saw two caskets, even more magnificent, studded with rubles and diamonds, in which the hairs from the prophet's beard are jealous) pre served. There are also several curfous in- struments made of gold and thick studded with gems on the back, whic were used as portable “scratching posts. ” Another room was hung with armor snd scepters; caskets and escritoires lay on the table The old escriteires wre all shaped like a piste). the inkstand is placed at the spot occupied by the trigger, and the reeds and a penknife are in the barrel. There are also inkstands in the shape of trays, each containing five sau- cers, for ink, dying powder and other odds end ends used by the writers, In another room are the costumes of all the sultans down to Malaooud 11. Each of the costumes has a silk scarf attached, to- gether with a magnificently ebased dag- r and a dismond aigrette. Then, eaped F -mell, argthe keys of the fort resses of the empire, and finally comes the sacred treasure, consisting of the relics of Islam; the mantel and standard of the prophet, his sword and bow; the swords of the first caliphs, and the oldest manu. scripts of the Korn New Orleans Girls Made Happy, [New Ovloans Pleay une. | On New Year's Duy a Boston lady, who is now in New Orleans, went by way of the river to the exposition. On the boat was a party of four young girls and a ma tron, all strangers (he ou the young girls gazed earnestly at the Boston lady and then sald “Please excuse me madam, but what «the name of the shawl you have on?’ awl ™ “ And what did \ bod ‘Madam, will » be so kind ns to let show it to m GIN pan ior itl l wr an India ' : RUT Ad LEE Ai i AN ACTOR OF EXPERIENCE Gives His Views of the Profession-—-Stage Fright—S8oclal Life--Salaries, [New York Graphic Interview.) “I may be very conservative in my no tions us to how a man or woman should euter the profession; but in spite of schools, lessons or coaching it is the same opinion with experienced actors that a be Hon must begla on the stage itself, with all its surroundin they are—at the bottom of the Indder. There have been of course some exceptional cases, but they are indeed very rare. Why, my dear sir, 1 could name some actors who ure on the stage now who had neither money nor time to waste, thus began the profession by going on as supety, for by this means they got used to facing an sudience, and could see the curious methods adopted by old stagers, ” “What is the feeling a man experiences when Le first speaks before an audience?” “Were you ever seasick? Well, if you remember that sensation, just before you are absolutely ill, you may form some idea of the fear thal comes over the aver. age actor on his first appearance belore avy audience. Theres the same cold per- spiration, the mist before the sight, the same parched lips and tongue, the sinking feeling in the breast and palpitating heart. Rome of course suffer more than others. It is called stage fright, and there's many a man and woman (iat could not go through the same ordeal a second time. Its all very well for a oung man 10 recite before bis friends or play &t any amateur entertainment; but when he comes before a large assembly of people who have paid their admission fee to be enYertained, with all the g are, glitter and bustle of genuine show life around him, it's a vastly different mat ter. What may appesr strange to you is this——that a man, as a rule, plays better when he is slightly nervous--not abowt the audience, but his lines. 1t is perhaps better explained by anxiety us to whether he is correct, and the very doubt he has about it throws a degree of fire inte Lis acting.” “What sbout the actor's social life?” asked the journalist, “Well, save those few engaged at the houses that have a stock company, they have no social comfort, or at least during { the season. The majority of Thespians sigh for it. They go from railroad car to hotel, from hotel to theatre, and so on You cannot form any conception of how a man or woman feels when they arrive in | some town at say 5 in the afternoon This is barely time to holt some supper when they have to hurry off to the theatre ~perbaps a strange one to them-—dress and goon. Then perhaps the train takes | them away to the next stand at midnight, | to say nothing of wintry weather. The | only time they get Is on Sunday, If they | happen to be staying in town on that day | then the want of su howe is impressed | upon their minds, ” | “But they receive good pay during the season. ” suggested the reporter, “That's another exaggerated avowed the actor, with a grave shake of his head. “In the first place actors do | not in very many cases receive the salaries put down to them bY many newspapers and general gossi en you must bear | in mind that balf the year they are idle There is always something to buy for every plece or something to replace For instance, if an actor is playing in a plece that requires every day clothing nothing is found by the managers, if ften fancy dress piece there are tights, feath- ers, shoes, wigs, and other things be has | to find, or if you have to travel there are | dozens of ways for the money to go, the | details of which cannot always be ac | counted for. Yet forall it is sa mistake lo suppose that actors are a very improvi. dent oy A greal number bave money, and there is a very good plan they now adopt to place their earnings in safe keep ing while on their travels that is, en idea, ¢ might need for expenses; they get a post order for the balance payabie to themselves, if they have no family, in New York city, or any other place they may think of making for wheu the sea son Is over. * A Mirage la the Saharw. [New Dongola Cor New York World.) It was & few days ago that a place down the river, near New Dongola, was seem ingly encompassed by an imponderable . In the distance we thought we saw rocks, mountalos, and old mimoss trees, where we knew that all was sand In the afternoon the rocks and mountales had gone and a great sheet of water was mirrored beforeus We t we could at times see the waves by some g breeze. Up to within 500 yards of ts we thought we saw a regi ment of red costed svidiers warching at ease where we knew no sbldiers could be W ght we saw camels, laden with munitions of war, on the horizon. It was a mirage, and nove of us were de ceived by it. But en route we saw more than that Only Jottatiar 1 witnessed a sublime t was not a mirage, but a reality. [saw three sand. spouts rising icular'y 0 a height. Their heads were Jost In swelling capltals, which to reach the clouds. They ‘iike colums which had the sky as thelr vault It looked like the ruins of some supernatural pantheon. Other sand spouts looked like balloons dragging thelr cars over the plains. On the Bf these sand spouts kre dangerous, but we will know how to guard against thetn as well as our Beduoln or Arab guides Practical Value of “Sclence.’” Detroit Free Pres] While the anti.vaccination “cranks” are rotesting against the method of protect ng the public from the small-pox, the process has actually stampad out the iague in localities where it had taken wold. And while Ruskin and other vivi section “cranks” were declaiming in one part of London against experiments on live animals, a man was having his life raved in a Loudon hospital by a surgical operation that depended upon viviseotion. For Professors Farrier and Yeo, by experiments upon the brains of live animale discovered, that certain symp. toms were the result of pressure upon a particular part of the brain. So when a patigue betrayed these symptoms they wldly cut into the right place in his brain and removed a tumor which they found there. Its growth would ine: itably have killed the man. [Its removal saved his life. It was the first operation of the kind ever performed, and would never have been possible but for the experiments upon the brains of live animals English Co-Operative Associations (Chicago Werak! | In England there are 1,180 co operative nssociations, with €00.000 members, vihich dealt in merchandise last year to the extent of $117,000,000, They were frst organized In England in 143 Inst your the members saved i bought over #3,000,000, which, being re duced to an individual i fifteenth of 4 average, Ix equal e nnnual loeome of ‘treasury day,’ after keeling what they , and | : o% goods | his ancestors, Where Inactivity Is Deemed KEnnobling [New York Cor. Inter Ocean.) There are various views of ancestry, by the way, in that happily small prin’ A of our society where inactivity Is deemed ennobling, I overheard u 16-year-old dandy say to still J nhgor belle: “I am glad that my family got out of trade fift years ago. My father was never lu bush ness, but devoted himself to sclence us » hobby. He made several discoveries, you know, that have got a permanent place in books." Then he looked into the girl's face for wdmiring wonder, but ssw ouly gentle commiseration. “80 your poor paps had Sinployment?” she sald, and then a weak tincture of proud disdain be came visible ns she added: “My father never, never did anything at all Nor was the further conversation of this dainty bud of exotic culture less interest. ing. Bhe dwelt upon the artistic laws of harmony fn colors, a4 she deemed them obeyed or violated in the hangings of the drawing room. Anything inhsrmonious made her positively [IL The sight of ill contrasted hues sent a sharp pain through her eyes. Khe rewlly didn't know how her bense of propriety in color had be come so abnormally developed, but she suspected that it was rily through the Inheritance of a bret + oh nature, she was sure that the peculiarity went out from her and pervaded all of utr belong ings. "Why, do you know,” she murmured, “my horse shied sq dreadfully sta bon net in Central park yesterday that | was nearly thrown the saddle.” “It was too Wdght, I suppose ” “OL no; but the combination was aw- ful. Why, there was a blue feather on reen velvet. Could I expect to get my toree past that?" Fascinated by a (hamols [Clinton Dent) We made good progress, when of a sud den Franz gave a loud whistle and then fell flat down, The other (wo guides im mediately followed his example snd beck oned to us with excited gesticulations to behave in a similarly foolish manner Thereupon we, too, sat down and in- quired what the purport of this perform ance might be It turned out that there Wns very little chamois about half a mile off. hnowing that it would be im possible to induce the guides to move on until seized the oppor break fast The gled about on their stomachs with eyes staring out of their heads, possessed by an extraordinary desire to miss no single movement of the ob ect of their attention “Bee, it moves, ” said Franz in a whis per. “Himmel! it is feeding, "mid Bur gener. “lt must be the same that Johason saw three weeks ago,” ~ that was but a little one™ (no true chamois hunter will ever allow that a brother Sporisman can possibly have pert eyes on i larger animal than himself. “Truly it is fine” “Thun derweather! it mo its head In their excitement 1 regretied that | could not share, not being well versed in hunting cra t. my own experience of the t v of King an early Ach os sport jn the Alps being limited to missing one marmot that was sitting on a road licking its paws In due course the chamois walked away. Apparently much relieved by there being no further neces sity to continue in their former uncom fortable attitudes, the guides sat up and fell to a warm discussion as W the size of the animal Wall of & Card- Writer, [New York Tribune | “Iam $150 out this year, ” said a well known writer of New Year's visiting cards who occupies a portion of the en trance lo oue of the Broadway hotels “How do you account for it?” “There bas been no falling off in the pumber of cards written, ™ be continued “1 bave executed quite ar many as in previous years, but people woa't buy pow. Times are hard and money is short Where | formerly sold balf a dozen forts of the best fringed and fancy cards | don't sell more 1 one now. Al the run this year has been upon plain white cards, and the more expensive Ay have, been Jet on my bands ‘olo 0 a o . fringed or many of nosy the card writer continued: “Those are a dead loss to me. Last year they would bave all been sold, but pow people can't afford to pay for them I sm off to New Orleans to the exposition ia & few days, and shall return to my old stand st Cooey deland in the summer. ” The pug of the passing moment must s dedicate fawn color, with a black extending to a line just above the bisck lips, and one or two black on the sides of its face It must bead up whea In action, snd its curled over its back, to right or scoordiog to sex It may haves but only a Hitle, smut on is the spine to the tip of the tall, may have s slightly smutte] saddle, but Do smut on the rest of its bod: It must wear a cloak of Napoleon blue tricot cloth, lined and bound with red and a harness (never a collar) of yellow leather with sliver, gilt, or steel bosses aod ieigh bells, sod Hoed with pinked-out red clo It should wear a yellow, red, or blue ribbon bow on its left shoulder Ita ears should not be cropped, snd it should not weigh over fifteen nor under seven pounds With Thamb and Finger. [Chicago Herald | The Japanese dentist performs all his operations of tooth drawing with the thumb and fore Bnger of one hand, and thus he never terrifics his patients with an array of #1 instruments. The skill necessary to do this is only acquired by long practice, bua once it is obtained the operator is able to extract about a half dozen teeth in thirty seconds without once removing his fingers from the patient's mouth, The dentist's education com meaces with the pulling out of pegs that have been into soft wood. % onde with the drawing of hard pegs which have been driven into an oak plank with amallet. It is said that no human jaw oan resist the delicate but powerful man ipulation of the Japanese dentist HOT A Pig Album. The album can be easily made by cut ting several pieces of card board or stiff juber. twelve Inches long and five wide. old them together, run a ribbon through the back, and tie the ends in a bow on the outside. Let each one in turn draw a pig snd write his or her name, with the eyes closed, upon a page in the album he strange figures thas made will furnish abundant amusement among a gathering of young folks Horaditary Dwoaw, A Boston physician adviss to ascertain what diseases ha with a view Ww g inherited t ndencies by of wi 11 tien ninst hy himself a adoptin . i raguisile wanes Hie 3 animal had disappeared, we | guides meanwhile wrig- | ou each side of | ers pict THE PHANTOM SHIP, [Eugene Lee Hamilton.) We touch Litws shore as swimmers from a wre Whe shitiddar at the cheerios land they And find thelr comrades gathered on the beach Watehing o fading sail, a small white SPOCK -- The phantom ship, u whose a deck fle place for There seeined awhile a homew: each The crowd still waving their hands and wtill besooch, But see, it fades, ‘in spite of prayer and Lot those who hope for brighter shores no more Not mourn, but turning inland bravely sock What Lidden wealth redecms the shapeless shore, The strong must build stout cabins for the weak | Must plant and stint; must sow and reap and store; For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak, As sero Canada us 8 Winter Resort, [W. fieorge Boers in The Century.) How shall a hope to describe what has been dove to make Canada ass winter resort better known to all the world? The first snowball is am fntexicant Boys go snow-mad. Montreal bins a temporary in sanity. The houses are prepared for a visit from Kiag North Wind, and Canadians are the only people in the world who know Low te keep warm outdoors as well as indoors, The streets are gay with life and laughter, and everybody seems deter mined to make the most of the great car nival. Business goes to the dogs There is a mighty march of tourists and towns people crunching over the crisp snow, and un constant jingle of sleigh hells. If you go to any of the toboggan slides, you will witness a sight that turills the on looker as well as the toboggauist. The natural hills were formerly the only resort; but some one has introduced the ussian ides of erecting a high wooden structure, up one side of RIE you arag your tobog gan, and down the other side of which you fiy like a rocket These artificial slides are the most popular, as they are easier of ascent, and can be made avolde caliots, or bumps Withis few regular toboggan ciubs have been organ izexl. Everybody bas gone crazy on the sub ject, and men women, and children revel in the dashing tight. The hills are lit by torches stuck in the the track, and i bon d which gath Perhaps of all sports of the carnival this is the most gen erally en oyved by the visitors of the slides are very steep and look danger ous, and the ser rushing down as Vears a score of SHOW Huse fires are kept burn.ng. arcu iresque groups dome sation of | the hill on the thin strip of basswood is | one never to be forgotten t | Doan’ make “How did you like it?" asked a Cada dian girl of an American visitor, whom she had steered down the steepest slide “Ch I wouldn't bave missed it for $100." “You'll try it again, won't you!" “Not for $1,000. * Anecdote of Senator Sumner, {Edmund Alton in 88. Nicholas) Senator Sumner took quite an interest in me, and bad an especial fondness for catching me by the ears. Often have | sitemptied to pass the senator, while he was walking to and fro on the floor of the scoste, only to have both my ears selzed good naturedly, and to be asked some kindly question. I shall always remember one of these adventures —for it was an ad. venture! He bad sent me on an errand. Having returned, reported to him the an swer, and received his deep-voloed thanks, 1 started to move away, but he had caught me, and continued his slow march fia froot—Indian file. As be was a tall man and I a very amall boy in comparison, 1 bad to walk om tiptoe to ease the pain, aud even then it seemed as if my cars would come off my head The worst of it was that he at once be came so Jost In thought that he for that he had hold of me, and mechanically paced i and down, with his loag strides, while danced a» mild war dance, for some minutes—it seemed to be hours—to the intense amusement of all who observed it. The more | od, the more did 1 increase the agony, but at last masaged to wriggle away from his i 1 The sud den “emptiness ™ of his caused him Tr eat fr £ my on 80 eder ‘ the =pectators sailed so bhY. the proceedings of the senate were (aterrupied and Mr. Colfax actually bad to tap with his gavel to restore order’ But it was, afier all, an honor to be noticed, even in that fashion, by so dis tinguished & man as Senator Sumner. He hed the widest reputation of any of the senators, and the frst question most visitors to the senate would sak was: It 1s » long time since London has been visited by a really first.clasws conjurer, for the simple reason that he gonatally finds it too hot to hold him. For no sooner does the new wizard make hia » than the entire tan con} fraternity attends his OrmAnces, before the week is out all his best tricks which have perhaps cost him years of thought snd are exposed for sale at a moderate cost in all the * repositories” in town. This was the case some years ago with the famous French conjurer, Du Bustier, and again last year with the American, Harz, For Eheumaticom, [Medical Journal | Oil of wintergreen, mixed with an equal quantity of olive oil, when applied ex- teroally to inflamed joints affected acute rheumatism, is maintained to be, high thtiaperiic authority, a means of in. stant relief from pain. At any rate, ita introduction to the sick-chamber is unob- tionable, if only for the agreeable odor t imparts to the atmosphere. For Future History, {Cincinnatl Commercial Gazette] In a letter to a friend in San Francisco, Gen, Sherman recently said: “I have always advised my army friends to reduce to writing their reminiscences as the best ald to future history. We may at times be at fault, but the truth will in the end be reached, 1 do believe this generation should decide the leading events of our own times, ” As Well te Unnderstand. 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