The Morning herald., 1875-10-23
A Monster Book,

dies.
A Monster Book.
HE sWANG HIS ARMS LIKE WINDMILL
AND SHOUTED 'PRoDIGIoUs." ''
From the Edinburgh Daily Review.
America is pre-eminently the land o.
"big things" and an illustrated catalogue
which has just been. issued by Mallory
Wheeler & Co., manufacturers of iron.
moDgery, New Haven, Connecticut, il
among the latest and most noteworthy evi.
dences of that country's amazing produc-
tive powers. 1t is professedly Yankee
notion" meant to eclipse catalogues ,alrea-
dy in circulation, and intentended to At
tract and monopolize by its conspicuous
novelty. And it is fair to say that it de-
serves to do all that and more Whether
viewed as specimen of correct and artis-
tic Typography, as sample of the most ex-
quisite lining in wood engraving, as mar
velously accurate production in bronze and
color printing, or as laost exhaustive and
instructive illustrated catalogue of iron
mongery goods manufactured by frm
whose range Of articles seems very exten-
sive, it is alike unique and conspicuously
meritorious. There is nothing garnish
about it anywhere. The binding is plain
but wonderfully substantial; the paper used
in it is good, stiff honest, white-faced ma
terial, and the arrangement of types is re.
markable only for its extreme neatness and
simplicity. Yet, withaI, the volume is by
far the handsomest thing of the kind we
have ever seen. 1t measures eighteen and
half by fourteen and half inches; is
substantially and handsomely bound in
Russian leather; contains 292 pages of the
heaviest white paper, fully as thick as or
binary Bristol board; weighs sixteen and a
half pounds, and gives full-size fac-similes
of almost every lock, paddock, knob, key
&C., made by the firm. A very few copies
Of the work have been sent to this country
for private circulation, and one of these
having been forwarded to us, We shall have
much pleasure in showing it to any Of our
readers who may call at our publishing Of
fce. The cost Of producing the work, We
may add, was somewhere about G16,OO0.
The telegraph In the African Dss.
crts.
A correspondent of the London I;mss
writing from Berlin, in tropical Africa,
says: 1t was singular to meet with the
telegraph in the heart of the desert, between
Aryab and Berbia nor the telegraph put
up in order, as we see it in Europe, but all
the appursenances of the instrument of civ
ilization carried On the backs of hundre 8
Of camels, which laden with coils of wire
and ballow iron posts, trod their toilsome
path through the burning sand. Every now
and then We meet one ofthese poor beasts,
which, over-weighed and broken down bv
tho weight Of his load, had fallen to the
ground and been abandoned victim to
the vuItures. All this telegraphic gear
was marked Semens Brothers, London
and was nroute to Khartoum, from which
own it will be forwarded on to span tho
desert between Kordofan and Rarfoure
A good many lives will be sasri feed before
the line can be considered) upon, as the
Arabs, who eagerly steal every piece Of
lren they can meet with for their spear
points, havsto be severely punished before |
they leave off cutting down the polss
However, this difficulty once got over the
telegraph will be so easily worked a. one
between Khartoum and Cairo, which when
il was first laid down was cont inu.llv be;n
interrupted"