Show japanese journalism I 1 I 1 the office of t lie nielli nichi nichi Shim bun the leading toldo journal is a a curiosity shop to the journalist our odthe of the western noile about ono one hundred arid and fifty fi aty people are employed ernp loed six of these being bein compositors po but each compositor lias has a half balf doyen assistants copy ii eu put t into large laie takes and handed to the file scholarly compositor ehn individual cars a pair of goggle spectacles of enormous magnifying power lie he is prepared to drop dro p 1 any one of oatlie the charter I 1 blocks do I 1 into his tick stick lie he has before him a case containing forty seven kana syllable he concu necta the ideographs ideography ideo graphs taking his I 1 copy rae the compositor cuts it into 1 bits and passes it over to his bis boy assistants these bright blight fellows go hunting about he office fortyl for the I 1 required chinese picture words I 1 while doing this they sing ane name of the character they are I 1 looking lor for all is bustle jollity I 1 and noise when a boy bov has collected the characters called for on his take lie he delivers them to the scholastic compositor who places I 1 them in ili order along with the connecting kana before him I 1 when made into forms the i modern stereotyping process is employed and the file printing is done on OD hand fed flat bed cylinder presse I 1 it will thus be seen that the linotype machine which is quickening quicken ms inz and cheapening the net newspaper shaper production of our country is not practicable here with the roman alphabet the japanese newspaper cheap as it is would be still further cheapened and certain certainly lv improved a hundred fold N Y hebald |