New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-13
A RENOVATION IN JOURNALISM.

In the review Of the Exhibition of paper at the Cys
tai Palace, which publish this morning is notice
of a discovery which promises to work revolu-
ton in the production of newspapers as well as OF
books. We refer TO the straw paper of Mr.. MELLIER.
French chemist and manufacturer. This article is
made entirely from straw and testify after
a careful examination of specimens Of various quail
titles, is as good as can be made of rags BY new
chemical process, the invention reduces the fibre Of
straw or other vegetable substances into pulp,
which we believe is then finished as paper by the
ordinary methods The advantage of the of straw
comes from its exceeding cheapness and abundance.
Rags are and the demand for paper increases
become dearer, bat there is little danger of a short
supply If straw. To discover a way of using il for
paper has long been desideraed but until Mr. Melier
no seeker had found il out We are informed that his
process is simple and cheap and that when lie
to claim compensation patenee for its the price
of paper cannot but fall very considerably This will
work revolution in our journals Ii will enable those
papers which are printed on small imsy and dirty
sheets to initiate the example Of THE TRIBUNE, and
assume an appearance more worthy Of metropolitan
journals and it will enable to better and
more substantial paper than that we employee at
present The printing of books viii also be cheapened
ana lnlpIOftu ny tuis great uisCONCi.
Another invention Of a character no less interesting
and important to the publishers of journals Of large cir
cuation. has been patented By Mr.. VICTOR BEAU
MONT citizen of New-York. though of French birth
II is a printing press, which at moderate rate Of
speed, will deliver thirty thousand sheets printed on
both sides in single hour Its movement combines
the original principles of Napier, which are applied
by Hoe in his great press, with some new
and beautifully simple arrangements and devices of
the inventor IL has large central cylinder like the
Hoe press on which are fastened the forms for both
sides of the sheet to be printed The type are held
fast by Hoes patent coumnrules. The paper used is
continuous strip band dispensing with men 10 feed
the separate sheets in other power presses This
strip or band Mr. Beaumont srrsnges very ngeniOusy
be avoids the Inconvenience inseparabe from having
il in the form of a roll by laying il in pile, folded
backward and forward Ike piece of brosdcloth
end Of this pile put into the press which then draws
in its supply without tearing stTaning the psper
till the whole sheet has passed through As there are
no feeders room is obtained for additional printing
cylinders; moderate-sized press VIII have twelve Of
these and viii require three hands TO run it, tive
Of them being employed in carrying and looking
after the paper Each twelyecylnder press wiz work
four of these continuous sheets st time, one 10
each three of its cylinders. Each sheet viii pass twice
through at its first passage one OF its sides viii be en-
iirey printed the forms of the newspaper being I'M
pressed on il alternately As it comes out the machine
lays il back again in the sort OF pile, 30 that
when il is all done, the attendant supplies its place
with fresh pile and then carries to the proper spot
for it 10 be taken up and passed through the second
time. which prints the side left blank before. Then
the mechanism passes it along to the knives which cut
the sheets apart while another Continuance puts them
in neat piles ready for the carriers These knives