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Show . Some Interrogations. The Peoria Transcript remarks : "Mr. S. P. Rounds, the Public Printer, advances ad-vances the opinion that the type-setting machine lately invented by a Baltimore German-American, will in five years completely revolutionize the art preservative preserv-ative in the United States and throughout through-out the world." The National Weekly asks : . Can it take the place of the old-time old-time compositor, on whose willing shoulders shoul-ders are placed the blunders of the editor? Can it strike a town broke, and in two hours be as mellow as a sunflower, and have a boarding-house? Is'it capable of taking goose tracks and converting them into readable articles on the tariff or the national debt? Can it go out on a strike, and have more fun with less money than a monkey with a cage full of peanuts? We think when Mr. Rounds comes to view the matter over he will revise his opinion. There is nothing that can take the place of the old-time compositor, unless it possesses some of the ingredients of a cyclone. cy-clone. - And in due respect be it added, it must possess brain. |
