The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-13
OPPOSITION TOGREAT IN
MENTIONS.


Tradition says, that John Faust,
one of the three inventors Of printing,
was charged with multiplying books
by the aid Of the devil, and was
prosecuted both by the priests and
the people. Y The strongest opposii~
ton to the press, however, been pre-
sented in Turkey. The art Of print
lnghad existed three hundred years
before a printing-press was estab-
hshed in Constantinople. ass From
1875 to l44O that press only issued
twenty-three volumes. II was then
stopped, and did not 1 resume its
issues until after an interval Of more
than forty years. About 1880, a
press was established at Scutari, and
between 1880 and 1907 it issued
forty volumes, Again its operations
were suspended, land were notresumed
until 1920, since which time it has
. WORKED aed more lndustrlously than here
fotore, although fettered with the
paternal oversight of Turkish gov
eminent. The ribbon-loor, IS an an
invention OF the sixteenth century;
and, on the plea that it deprived
many workmen of bread, was pro-
hibited in Holland, in Germany In
the domlnions Of the Church, and in
other countries of Europe. At
Hamburg the council ordered a
loom tobe publicly burned. The
stocking loom shared the. same fate Of
The rlbbon-loom, In England, the
patronage of Queen Elizabeth was
requested for the invention, and it is
said that the inventor was impeded
rather than assisted in his under
taking. In France, opposition to
the stocking-loom was of the most
base and cruel kind. A Frenchmen.
who had adopted the invention.
manufacture by the loom a pair of
silk stockings for Luis XIV. They
were presented to the French mon
arch. The parties, however, who
supplied hosiery to the court, caused
several of the loops of the stockings
to be cut, and thus brought the
s;ocking-loom into disrepute at head
quarters. Table forks appear so
necessary part of the furniture of
the dinner table, that one can scarce
~ believe that the tables of the six.
tenth century were destitute of
them. They were not, however,
introduced until the commencement
OF the seventeenth century, and then
were ridiculed as super1uous and
effeminate, while the person who in
troduced them TO England was called
Furclfer. They were invented in
Italy, and brought thence tot
England napkins being used in that
country by the polite, and fingers byI
the multitude. The saw mill was
brought into England from Holland
In 1868; but its introduction so
the English that the en-
terprlse was abandoned. A. second
attempt was made at Limehouse, and
toe mill was erected, but soon after
its erection it was pulled down by
mob. Pottery is glazed by throw
ing common salt into an oven at
certain stage of the baking. This
mode of baking was introduced
into England in 1890, by two broth |
ers. who came to Staffordshire from
Nuremburk. Their success and
their secrecy SC enraged their neigh
bors, that persecution arose against
them, and became SO strong, that
hey were compelled to give up their
works. The pendulum was invent
ed by Calico; but so late as the
end of the seventeenth century, when
Hooke brought it forward as stand
ard of measure, it was ridiculed, and
passed by the nickname of "Swing-
swang."