| Show ANTIQUITY OF SHORTHAND it was in use before the ot the ira cicero is said to have been the inventor of shorthand writing and the freedman freed maa marcus tullus tiro his friend the first stenographer and he undoubtedly did use a method of shorthand writing as early as 60 B C the firel english treatise was by timothe bright entitled an arte of and secrete writing by charac are invented by timothe briglia Bri glit doctor of Ph isike imprinted at london by I 1 the assignee of tim bright cum statis forbidding all others to print ahe same dr bright in this work says cicero did account it labour and no less profitable to the roman common weale most gracious to a speedie kinde of writing by character as plutarch report eth in the life of cato the this indention was increased afterward by seneca that the number of characters aruo to whether through inure of time or that the men baue gaue it over for tediousness of learning nothing rem aineth extant of ciceris Cic eros indention at this day the stenographer who recalls the efforts required to properly master the few characters used in the art today to day will wonder that of ciceris Cic eros system with its characters nothing remains at this day it was not until 1042 according to the new york world that the art became of any practical use and it waa first used in the house of lords in in taking testimony in a divorce suit stenographers were not regularly employed in parliament however until 1803 in many of the public schools of the country stenography is a part of the training an evidence of its recent remarkable growth is shown by a circular issued by the bureau of education issued at washington here it is chown that from july 1 1889 to june SO 1890 persons received instruction in the art of shorthand in schools and colleges in the united states five thousand five hundred and fifty of these were in new york and brooklyn A like circular was issued by the bureau in 1834 in which it was shown that during the year the number of pupils receiving instruction was 12 it is therefore quite safe to say that the number for 1893 exceeded 75 but this number does not take into consideration an army probably equally largo who receive instruction i from some other source or from professional fess ional out of this vast army however but a very small minority are either physically or mentally qualified to become court reporters or even office amanuenses |
