St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-03-06
The Combination Newspaper
Cut,

\ gentleman connected with the
newspaper business in this city has
| filled Il want long felt by the invention
ot combination newspaper cut or
! portrait that can be used To represent
amy self-made man, actor or actress,
so that 1t Is not necessary Ia buy ii new
cut when the newspapers desires tO de
! pct tile features Of mau. Or woman.
! The newspapers have OF late years got
III the habit of publishing pictures of
great men and women. aud while the
| pictures are very Interesting TO the
! reader, the cost at each production
! makes serious Inroad upon the box
/ office receipts of the paper. The Mil
! waukee inventor has got the matter
down fine. He takes as basis a
newspaper cut of Oscar Wilde, showing
II face that may pass for woman q, "a
man, face MS vacant as the head
above it. with no expression, no moth
| ing hut dough face. Sn pose a
newspaper man desires to publish a
! picture of Fitz John Porter, he screws
on a pair of side-w whiskers, puts Il dem
ocratic look on the face, sort of .sout
of meat" look, screws pair ol major
general stars iuto the Shoulder, and
| Fitz Is presented to the million readers
of the paper us natural as life. II "A
picture of Whitelaw Rei'i, of the New
York Tribune, is desired, the artist
! takes the cut of Oscar. pulls the neck
out 50 it is about eighteen inches long,
| with the Adams apple at the throat,
and leaning forward, slopes the fore.
head back, misses the hair, screws on
Il baseball mOustaehe, with nine hairs
! a a
| though Whitelaw Smelled wooden ar
something burning, and there is the
great man who fOundrrcd Horace
! Greeley's paper, natural as life.
! If ii picture of Conkling is wanted.
! the artist telescopes the neck back to
its original length. aud removes the
! Whitclaw Reid business, puts 4 curl in
| the forehead, telescopes the nose ont
50 it is thin, and looks as though it
smelt burnt ovcrShoe and Roscoe is
presented to ii million readers. If
picture of Ben Butler is desired, the
artist removes ROscOe's hair, leaving
plain, open space. twists the eyes right
and left, so one is looking into the iu-
ture while the other is looking into the
past, puts on Il mOustachc, swcliS out
the checks, and puts on an expression
! Sltn It's Il llIu mas Nicn ne RtlS 10 inc
depot and finds his train gone, and
there is Ben in all his glory. TO make
a picture of President Arthur it is only
necessary to push the chm up and
make a double chin of it, screw on side
whiskerS closely trimmed, and give the
picture al expression of mau who
has got enough and knows when he
has got enough, and Arthur is be
fore yOu. For John Kelly it is only
necessary TO hit the picture of Oscar
with IL club and knock the brains out,
kick the chin up, and shorten the lips
so the teeth will show like IA row of
paupcr tomb stones in IA POtter's field,
put on few whskers that look as
though they had been picked like
geese, and the Tammauy boss is as
natural as life. In this way, at an
original expense of five dollars, a news
paper can publish picture Of any
man OT woman on earth, that Will look
more natural than the cuts that are
made on purpose To represent each i'll
dividual, such as are now being pub
lished in the papers to harrow up the
souls of the victims. There Is for
tune in the invention for somebody
Peck's Sun.