Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-06-05
Wonderful Invention.


gentleman connected with the news
paper business in this city has filled o want
long felt by the invention of combination
newspaper cut or portrait that can be used
TO represent any self-made man, actor or
actress, so that it is not necessary to buy a
new cut when the newspapers desire to
depict the features of man or woman.
The newspapers have of late years got in
the habit of publishing pictures of great
men and women, and while the pictures are
very interesting to the reader, the cost Of
eaeh production makes serious inroad up
on the box Office receipts Of the paper.
1he Milwaukee inventor has got the mat
ter down fine. He takes as a basis, a news
paper cut of Oscar Wilde, showing a face
that may pass for a woman or a man, face
as vacant as the head above it, with no ex-
preston. no nothing but dough face.
suppose newspaper man desires to pub
lish picture Of Fitz John Porter, he screws
on pair of side whiskers, puts Demo
cratic look on the face, sort "out of meat
look, screws pair Of ma general stars
INTO the shoulder, and Fitz is presented to
the million readers of the paper as natural
as life.
II picture of Whitelaw Reid, of the
New York Tribune. is desired. the artist
takes the cut Of Oscar, pulls the neck out so
1t Is about eighteen inches long, with the
Adams apple at the throat, and leaning for
ward, slopes the forehead back, muses. the
hair, screws on base ball moustache. with
nine hairs on side, puts on an expression
as though Whiteiaw smelled WOODEN or
something burning, and there is the great
man who foundered Horace Creeley's paper,
natural as life.
II picture of Conkling is wanted. the
artist telescopes the neck back 10 its origin
al, and removes the Whtplaw Reid busi-
ness, puts curl in the forehead, telescopes
the nose out so il is thin, and looks as
though II smelt burnt orershoe, aad Roscoe
IS presented to million of readers.
II picture Of Ben Butler is desired, the
arIIst removes Roscoe's hair, leaving plain.
open space, twist the eyes right and left, 50
one IS looking INTO the future while the 9th
er is looking into the past. puts on NOUS
tache, swelis out the cheeks and puts on an
expression such as a man has when he gets
to the depot and finds his tram gone, ana
there is Ben in all his glory
To make a picture of President Arthur it
Is only necessary TO push the chin up and
make double chm of il. screw on side
~h.skers closely trimmed, and give the pict-
ure an expression of a man who has got
enough and knows when he has got enough,
and Arthur is before YOU
For John Kelly it is only necessary to hit
the picture Of Oscar with a club and knock
the brains out, kick the chin up, and short
en- the lips SO the teeth will show like row
OF pauper tombstones in Potter's field, put
on few whlskers that look as though they
had been picked like geese. and the Tam
many boss i. as natural as life
In thIs way, at an Original expense Of
hve dollars, newspaper can publish
picture OF any man or woman on earth, that
VII. look more natural than the cuts that
are made on purpose to represent each in
ltVidual, SUCH as are now being published
n the papers to harrow up the souls of the
victims. There is a fortune in he invention
for somebody