The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-21

man, or woman either, who would have
courage TO send letter without one.
Have you ever seen an envelope ma.
chineY Ifyou have not you have missed
one OF the greatest curiosities Of modern
times. To describe II 60 that u person
can have good, clear idea or It's opera.
tlons is next TO impossible. Though ap.
parently invented to supply a very sim.
pie want, it LOOKS TO be, one of the most
marvellous and intricate pieces of ma
chinery ever made by human hands or
invented by the human brain; nothing
that have ever seen In the way Of ma
chinery seems to net with such q human
Intelligence. Every movement and every
motion is guided by wisdom that seems
little lese shan ii,ifsCaidds' o. ds ssaissdown
in your nose book, and DONE FORGET die
envelope maker 10 Machinery Hall.
Walters great printing press from Eng.
land occupies position little north
east of the centre. 1t is a wonderful
piece of mechanism in one sense, but it
makes more noise at it's work than all the
rest of the machinery in the great hall
put together, including the 'reat Corlias
engine. In contrad;stinction to this.
there is another press at the great Exhi-
bition which is the eighth wonder of the
world. refer to the new Campbell
press, the like Of which has never been
seen since the world began. All of the
best printing presses are large, heavy
and cumbersome; even the Bullock's and
Brewster's presses, and the most improved
Hoes are filed with complicated Machine
ry and inuumerable VII els; but here is
a press occupying comparatively little
space, mere skeleton as regards ma
chinery, and yet doing work that the
widest dreamer never dared to hope.
The forms are prepared, the rollera are
adjusted and the engineer stands at his
post with the lever in his hand. He
turns it gently backward and the way
she goes at twenty thousand an hour,
printed ON both sides al once, folded,
registered and piled UP rady. for the
newsboys to take under heir arms and
peddle in the streets. rave watched
the improvements in printing PRESSES for
many years, and there is no machine
whica human genius he's developed that
fills me with such reverence and admira.
ton. There must be point of perfec-
ton somewhere, and it seemed to me that
this morning, as stood in the presence
of this monarch of mechanical skill, the
inventor might inScribe above it, "ne pltl:
;::M-G" satisfied that in the mutations OF
all coming time its superior will never
be discovered. ""c
Directly in the centre of the building
and near the north entrance, which faces
the lake, is another wonderful labor-sav.
ing invention, known as the American
type writer. See that splendid-looking
dark-eyed woman who sits by the ma
chine, and plays upon 1t like grand
piano; watch how deflly her fingers fly
over the yielding keys. For a moment
you imagine she is amusing herself By
running over some old, familiar tune
but not Bit Of It that is mrs. G. A.
Osborne, one of the most remarkable
ope rators on this instrument in the we.lG
she il lnowNFiting Mt the tate ofl9lhpnl
dred words minute; and look, aha
hands you han adsomely printed copy Of
the letter you gave her only few seconds
before, properly punosasted, your imper-
feet grammar corrected, your ayntax and
prosidy SO wonderfully improved that il
astonishes yourself to think you can write
SO we'll. With this instrument you car
multiply your copy twenty-seven times
but it will require little practice that
will call you out early in the morning
aud keep you up late at night before yor
can become an Osborne.
Massachusetts is here near the door
with magnificent. maritime display, ant
you find models of every, kind of Graf
that moves upon the face Of the waters
Full rugged ships are there that look n
though they could tackle, without wink
ing, the stiffcst Southwestern, or doubl,
Cape Horn in June without striking .
moon raker or sky scraper; rakish look
ing mackerel .Ashers from C,pe. God an,
Mari,leliead, ,laad ja,,nty looEingsobcon
erAlbqch Aass 90 down to the sbahfs "a
Newfoundland after halibut and cod
are scattered about. Oyster boats ant
net finhing; find here an abundant illus
tration, and the pleasure yacht in whiel
our young sprigs Of American nobilit.
enjoy their ocean races, have severa
magnificent models. Tae<., evidences o
her naritine greatness are interesting
beyond the power of description, ant
among the collection 10 divers suit 70
exploration, beneath the waves, I,peye
SEE one of these but 1 think of the terri
Bile sights frequently encountered by thes
travellers under the sea. Here before u
is the identical cult Paul Boynton iwor
when he leaped over from the steame
and swan to the Irish coast. AS looke,
upon it and the paddle with which b
worked his way along the stormy an
rock-bound coast, the whole scene ros
up before me, and came to the oonclu
sion that if such an opportunity was eve
offered me of achieving an honorabl
Immortality, 1 would let the> job datat
very sligh. percentage on the origins
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