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Show A New Typesetter. ."(Philadelphia Record.) ' An improved typesetting machine has been designed by H. E. Brown, the editor edi-tor and -publisher of the Rural Life, at Sterling, 111., and the work of making mak-ing the machine for the market is about to be commenced by a Chicago company. Speaking of the new invention, inven-tion, Mr. Brown said: "It is a new and complete machine, about the only thing resembling the standard Mergenthaler being its finished fin-ished product. Among, the prominent features of this new machine are the matrix bars and method by which the machine handles, them automatically, the method of sjjacing and justifying the lines, and the keyboard. ."The machine is automatic Jn all its performances; the operator continues to assemble matrices to form line after line while the lines .are carried forward, for-ward, the slugs or lines of type cast, and the matrix bars and justifiers returned re-turned to the stored position without assistance of the operator. , "This new: barotype machine" is said to surpass all, other machines of this class in simplicity; it can be built for less money and operated by any one of ordinary intelligence, thus rendering it unnecessary to employ an expert to operate and keep it in repair. It will be as rapid, if mt swifter, than any other 'machine, and produces lines of varying lengths to six inches, and of various faces and bbdies of type, being be-ing interchangeable with little loss of time." , : v |