Show nipponese typists have but 2000 characters to master the nipponese manipulators of typewriters have to struggle with a keyboard of 2000 characters to be ba ed out by hand the slugs have individual compartments in a bildin sliding tray the stenographer must press a knob in picking out these indi dual signs big n s of the III 1 forms characters which once were pic pie have been reduced to t their heir simplest forms on the typewriter and now represent ideas only when placed in sound and thought se quence when the knob Is moved move directly over the selected character pressure Is exerted A metal arm pushes across a tiny ink roller and against the paper which Is rolled on a drum the drum shifts and re bolves as the letter progresses cleveland plain dealer |