Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-10-30
Tho Work Novel writers Do.

The writing Of novels Is. in England.
more nearly profession than any other
work in literature. The novelists. though
incidentally they may write poems or pa
pers. find their life work and their hveli
hood In fiction writing. and most of them
rule their lives to that end The reader
who skins 1.-The last now novel" In the
swift hours Of few days forgets. BY rea
son of Its naturalness. the toll that has
gone to make it. The mere writing out
Of . long novel. perhaps two or three
times over. In mechanical labor that
would sorely try the patience Of most pa
tient people. and this is only the finA and
outward expression Of months of toll and
years Of study and experience that must
60 to the making Of the book.
Anthony Trollope. the most business
like Of novelists. who once confirmed to
me the statement that he kept one or
two completed novels ahead Of current
demand in Ris desk. accomplished his ex
traordinary productiveness - . BY call
ing. being FOR most Of bis life . busy
postofHce official, but he was an excep
tion to the rule that novel writing is the
most absorbing OF callings Charles
Reade collected Incident as Herbert Spen
Ger collected sociological data, and his
otuuy WAS MulObt uAo tuo Couutu8 SoOm
Of q man Of affairs, with its pigeon holed
hearts blood Is put into . real novel,
what nervous exhaustion comes with Its
climax and ending. no one can fully tell
Dickens has con6ded something OF this
inward tragedy to the reader In his pc
thetic record of his wanderings about the
streets of Paris after the death Of Little
Paul It Is this which gives to the nov
elist q "contemporaneous human inter
est" beyond that of his books, and makes
readers eager to know OF the personality
and methods. and look into the faces OF
their fav0rite story tellers- - Harpers
MaPazine.
An inventor has oompieted experiments
which be, says. sho~ the practicability OF
making stone typa They sre. Of course, OF
large slzs. TO substitute wood lettera The
material Is sn artificial stone. pressed into
molds and then hardened. afterwards being
polished ON the surface Thers viii be no
varping and 90 expansion or contraction,
and sacb font will bs exactly the same as
that preceding
Sho Nemoto, . japanese student In the
Unjyeryity OF Verment gives some interest
Ing fscts about MS country The Japanese
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books Lax rear sbDuU English and ils.oD
American pooks were imported Until 70
Gently all the editors Of ali the newspapers
were usa bot In March last temperenos
paper was established In roEio oy hin Asai
and MA Sasaki. tns secretary OF the Iokio
So,l,Ans ChrlsriAn rsmpersncs union
A wire rope half a mile long, SIX and one
fourth inches In circumference and Weighing
ssven and one-half tons, has been manuisc-
tured at Gateshead. England There are six
strands kof nineteen wires each in IL, ths
brsaking strain Of the whole being l7o tons
and that Of each wire In tho rope ia tons 70
the square inch This Immense rope Is 10 %
ussd Inc collisry in North Wales
The presence Of sewer gas in a room may os
detected 10y the following method; pnsiaz7i
paper is saturated with solution OF acetate
VI lead in rain water. one ounce ef lead san
beiag Dissolved in eight ounces OF the LIQUID
Allow tbs paper 10 partially dry. and thse
expose il In the room which s suspected ca
containing deleterious gas Any consideraose
quantity Of the gas will turn the paper niAeh