The Nevada journal., 1858-08-13
WHOLE NUMBER 398.

~ The Messenger mentions the fol-
lowing among other disagreeable things
connected with printing office: For
an editor to be compelled to read four
teen columns of solid matter, seridtim,
and in the revised proof find more errors
than originally existed there. To have
ten exchanges come in daily and not
find an article iu them worth scissoring,
when four "typos" are waitin for copy
and charging for the time they have to
wait. TO have fourteen loafers come
into fhe office and engage in the discus
sion of Kansas, when one is trying to
write sentimental article on Platonic
love, or the memory of deceas e grand
mother. 70 quote sentence of Greek
or Latin for the purpose of convincing
outsiders that you are posted in the dead
languages, and to have raseally COM
positor set it up wrong. To find para
graph on which you spent time aud
thought, copied into the paper of con-
temporary and credited to another be-
sides yourself. To hear the gratuitous
comments of two-legged donkeys on
your last editorial, when you are per-
fectly aware of their inability to con-
struct single grammatical sentence, or
write hand which would not be mista-
ken for Egyptian hieroglyphics. To
have some ignoramus look over your
shoulder while you are preparing your
next weeks leader. To have some
confidence" man come up and ask you
in an afectionate manner for the name
of your last new correspondent, and who,
if you should deny him, will think you
are infringing on the rights of an Amer
lean freeman. These are but some of
the pleasing things which journalists
have to contend with /; and we are some
times thankful that they are no worse.
Calico AND SHAWL PRINTING.-The
higher class fprinted goods, at the pres
ent day, comprise barege shawls, print
ed velvets. printed hannels, and the
more costly varieties of printed maslins.
Great artistic skill is shown in devising
the designs, mechanical skill in prepar-
ing the blocks, chemical skill in select
ing the colors, and imaginative skill in
the printing. All the cheaper printed
cottons are now printed by the cylinder
process. The pattern is engraved on
the surface Of a copper cylinder; and by
an admirable adjustment of mechanism,
this cylinder feeds itself from all that is
superfuous, draws in the cloth to be
printed, ard efTects the printing. Every /
color requires separate cylinder; SO
that the cylinder machine for the more
complicated patterns is really a very
fine example of engineering.
Blu. for the more costly and delicate
goods, such as the shawls and velvets,
the original block method is still adhered
to. In this method each color has a
block for itself, on which certain por-
ton of the pattern is cut or engraved;
and the blocks are used singly and by
hand, each printing as much as its size
and color will permit. Where the whole
design is but repetition of one small
pattern, the whole surface ofthe cloth is
printed by a succession of applications
of the same two or three blocks but
where large shawl, for example, dis
plays a design which is not merely a
repetition of small bits Of pattern, the
number of blocks often become multi
piled in an extraordinary degree. Ore
of the exquisite barege shawls recently
produced is said to have required more
than five hundred carved blocks to pro-
duce it, every one of whichrepresenting
different part of the device, either in
color or in pattern, from any Of the 9TH
ers. 1t is the mode of weaving that
gives to these shawls the title of barege; |
the material may be silk or wool, or
mixture Of the two, or mixture ofeither |
one with cotton, but the printers art has
enabled him to impart beautiful printed
designs to all the varieties.
IRON BRIDGE OVER THE NILE.-A
great tubular iron bridge is now being
constructed at Newcastle, England, ard
will be completed in about two years. for
the Egyptian railroad, which crosses
the Nile about midway between Cairo
and Alexandria. The river there is
eleven hundred feet wide, and steam
ferry-boat is new employed to do the