Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-09-12
THE NEW PHoNOoRaPH.
a View Of It. Operations vh~a In Fun
Blast In a Newspaper Ome~.

AAetA aGes - EWAA- ~ NhTN n "fthptuLiNu
in newspaper offices. The editor or
reporter will talk what be has 10 say
right into the photograph. The metal
strip which receives the remarks.
which Mr.. Edison calls the rhono-
gram. bat which probably should more
properly be called the c~ilder-huke. Is
then removed and sent 20 the compos-
in--ruoF1. where il will be inserted in
the cUmPo-itor's phonograph He will
touch a lever with his foot. and the
machine will casually mention ten
words. and then relapse into deep
thought. till he sets them and repeats
the performance II he doesn't catch
the remarks he kicks another lever
and the machine repeats.
AL tajs has a very interesting ap-
pcar1ncs at a distance. but il does no.
serm as Il the eompo-ing-room will bs
altogether free from trouble. even
when shere is an able photograph
wearing q swallow-tail coat and OPEN
front vest. sitting up on every case.
debating scholarly editorial and
graphic descriptive matter. II will
make the composing-room partaka
something % the nature Of an anarch-
i-ts meeting to have half a dozen
Photographs in an elocutionary voice
talking of editorials. while twice as
many are rolling out telegraphic mat
ter. and an0ther gang are making
Earnest remarks about the markets.
and still another lot are roaring out
the advertisements. When n OF tho
editorial machines begins TO get deep
ly ia earnest and puts one hand under
ITS eua,-tails. swells out its breast.
hrovs back Its head and begins to talk
very loud about "A Crying Need Of the
llour- 1t will only help to confuse
matters 80 also will the Government
chemist in the bakins-powder adver-
tisemrnts. and the reduction sale dry
goods announcements. when these
Photographs begin { o paw she upper
ease. and howl and occasionally shoot
out an el~ectrotype cut of a new sum
mer suit or something. and take the
c~olpos5tOr in the ear. and knock him
down and then get mad because he
isn't mp and st work. it IS going 10
AXE exciting times.
While the unsuspecting phonograph
Is leaning over and pouring its ten
words into the compositOr's ear he will
forget and make his welI-knowu and
heated remark about the ~leannes5 of
the Type or the unsatisfactory charac-
ter % his take or he will make
overtures 10 another compositor look
Ing toward the loan Of some Tobacco,
and thc photograph will take it and
mix il up with an editorial on The
Progress Of Church Work. and he
viii set il this way and subsequently,
the cafue-t. glowing swear word Of the
Prvofreader Will be noted "a il floats
out from another OOm-
Then Of those exeitable- nervors
men VIII BE- working on n case with a,
quick. imPulsive photograph. and the
ioot-iever will break. or something.
aud the phouograph will 20 right on
talking. and he will try to set as fas,
A. e can talk The casual spectator
vii observe a tall. round-shouIdered
man. with no suspenders on. humpins
down over the case and maxine
desperate and Iightuing-Iike grabs
after letters out Of two boxes NJ orca
The air will be filed with type a,in-
IN all directions. and above the roar 81
the phoHograph. galIopins along on a
cable dispatch full OF Russian Geuerals'
names, Will be heard the red. molten
remarks Of ar exeitable. cnu
posiior- The type in the air will grow.
thicker. pieces OF the partitions he.
tween the boxes will Join the cloud. tbs
nervous man will double over still mors
n clutch whole handfuIls Of
aud three-em spaces and hurI them M
10 the ceiling, scrape down the uppsr
case. tearing away the boxes. all Ii.
time yelling stopper err TO which
the machine viii only reply with q
hoarse, hollow laugh. till at last he Wi,
seize it. and tea It from its place. and
beat the foOr with the heIples mech.
anlsm till It becomes a shapeless mass
q hasn't n word To say. and till ths
tai. excitable cOmpositor has to b.
carried away To the hospital
Such scenes a. these will tend 10 dis.
tuFo the harmony Of the composing
room and cause friction
Again. when the editor is POURING
his tale into a Photograph. perhaps 4
door will slam. for instance. and the
faithful Instrument will record IL; and
when Il Is repeated for the compositor.
II he doesn't happen to fully understand
the thing. he will stand there all night.
and perhaps eventually become insane
trying TO set that slam.
This viii cause loss Of time and
more friction and profanity. and on
the whole there Is going To be more
trouble with the photograph in the
composing room than there Is now
With the dark. mysterious. unknowa-
Die specimens OF penmanship at pres
eat turned out by the editor. who
claims that he used TO set tvpe with
Horace Greely. and has been frequent
~ reused out Of a sound sleep in the
middle OF the night to find the elder
Bennett standing BY his bedside wait
lng Win a perplexed air TO ask his ad-
vice on some knotty journalistic point.
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