Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-30

markable result of the science of pho
Biography. How short time ago it was tina
the ingenious Mr.. Daguerre was suspected
OF lunacy because it was whispered that he
was working at magic process for catching
peoples shadowsl Indeed, it is easily with
in the memory Of men still living, that hi
who would have his picture taken must ST
motionless for minutes, never daring 81
much as to take the smallest furtive wink
And now we have the kinetograph. trained
to take a thousand pictures in less than 6
minute. These are the things which have
made amazement obsolete. Nothing car
surprise us. Nothing is impossible.
Everything Now Done in q Hurry.
The kinetograph is to be turned tt
practical account, understand, by being
htted to the nickel-in-the-slot machines. In
goes your nickel and out comes your picture
People who miss the trains can thus know
exactly how they look in the face OF that
peculiarly exasperating mishap. People
who have to wait can take accurate photo
graphs of patience ceasing to be virtue
The kinetograph, like most modern inven
'tions, is another contrivanoe for doing
something in hurry. That is characteris
tic of the age. Everybody is in a rush. Men
run for the fastest cars, and hunt about for
the restaurant where they can get an in.
stantaneous lunch. I saw little pin the
other day that came from Greece, q little sill
yer pin with head in the center OF it, and
about the head three legs apparently in the
hastiest kind of hurry. There was a legend
inscribed in Greek about these whirling legs
which meant in English, "W Whatever you do,
do it impetuously." had no idea that they
had any such spirit as that in Greece. That
is plainly enough the spirit of America,
however, and the little pin seemed capital
symbol of the sort of life most Of us lead-a
head to signify that we do some thinking.
and these whirling feet to mean that we do
our thinking very fast.
Anybody who desires to take picture of
the world to-day must be able to photograph
a man with three legs running like the four
winds. That was Westerner of the mod
ern type who looked carefully at several
of a rival town and remarked
that his town didn't stand still long enough
to have its pictures taken. Nothing but a
will answer.
Magazines for Everybody.
Il have the privilege of subscribing for
IN international kinetograph. 1t comes
once every month. It is an accurate and
turn these pages over is like whirling that
roll of developed pictures that Mr.. Edison
has in his laboratory. You see the world in
notion.
Different ntmagaZines, of course, suitdiffer-
snt people. like different dinners. There is
magazine devoted to the interests
If Anglo-Saxon weights and measures
whatever they are), and to the
study of the mysteries Of the Great
Pyramid. For people who like that sort of
hing, that is, of course, the eort of a
hing they like. But for anybody who is in
erested in the progress of the world, who
wants to know at least little about all
the new inventions, and the new discov-
'ries, and the new happenings in politics
md religion, who desires to get a general
dea of what is going on just now the whole
vide world over, there is no periodical in
my language which can compare with the
Reuiea0 of Rerie,os
MI. W. T. Stead is the English editor, and
dr. Albert Shaw the American editor of this
magazine. These good men are
he most wide-awake ofhuman beings They
re typical nineteenth century editors.
They are cup" to everything. Not stir,
he planet over, but is snapped and recorded
nd set in its place in contemporary history
n these pages in this monthly kineto-
raph.
Stead's Character Sketches,
The best part of the Reuie,c Of Reviems is its
monthly character sketch" This is al
most always written by Mr.. Stead himself.
DR.. Stead knows almost everybody who is
vorth knowing in public life anywhere on
he planet. Every month he has somewhat
o say about someone in whom we are al
rays interested. These sketches are always
imely. They are always level with the cur
ent of the most modern thinking and hap
'ening. Balmaceda, Parnell and Boulanger
re set together instructively in the last
lumber. The main article is on the young
ferman Emperor. After you have read this
description you know this remarkable young
nan better than if you had lived with him
very day for a week. Last week the lead
ng paper was on James Russell Lowell.
1 enjoy the unreserved personality which
ppears in all the writings of Mr. Stead. He
ever says "we," never stands at distance.
ever tries to cover up weak wall of i'm
erfect ideas with an elaborate stucco
ecoration of fine words. Stead always tells
ou exactly what he thinks and the whole of
:. And he always tells it in a graphic, terse,
rief, epigrammatic way which gra apples at
ention and never lets go. If anything he is
90 audacious, journalistic, wide-awake. He
eminds one of the adjective that Mr..
[owells applies to Rudyard Kipling. He is
Hugh Price Hughes, the great |
esleyan preacher who came over here to |
he International Convention, he calls a sort
I "day-of-j Judgment in breeches." William |
I. of Germany, puts him in mind of General |
ordon, in that he believes that he is a |
artner with the Almighty-except that |
ordon was humble enough to consider him.
elf only the junior partner!
The Entire World Reviewed,
The whole world passes in procession in |
1ese pages. The elections in Ohio and New
ork the meeting of the Liberal Federation |
t Newcastle, Russia and the Dardanelles.
1e Kaiser and the Gear, the troubles in
hina, franchise questions in South Africa,
fairs in Australia and in Central Asia. the
mime in Russia, the floods in Spain, the
rison Congress in Pittsburg, are all passed
/ luminous graphic and profitable review.
1t is a great thing to be set down once a
lonth before a kinetograph that talks, 1t
an added benedictiou when the pictures
tine photograph are sights of just the
lings that a thoughtful man desires to see
re illustrations carefully chosen to mark
il sorts of beneficent progress, and show
at its best; and when the accom-.
anying text is comment upon these
vents from the very highest point of view.
hich menace the best interests of the race
arrow thinking is almost as detrimental To
ght progress as bad thinking. Narrow
linking. indeed, to nse one of Mr.. Stead's
larp sentences, is stupidity possessed Of a
evil" We ought to welcome everv snoh
roadening influence as is represented in
lese pages. 1t is as good as a liberal educa-
on and q trip to Europe put together.
Miss Ruth Cleveland's HOLIDAY.