The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-17
THOUGHTS BY MIR. NYE
The Use of Membranoid in the
Binding of Books.
A GREAT NOMINATING SPEECH.
Incorrect Statements by Swedish Paper
in Regard to . Person Whose Hab-
its Are Irreproachable.
Copyright, 1892, by Edgar ". Nye.l

Being on the eve as may say, of pub
fishing q book, l hail with ill-concealed
joy the announcement that q company
has been recently formed with a capital of
$lo0, COO and located at Newark, n. j., for
the manufacture of "membranoid' for
bookb;ndings
This is new style of ornamental
leather made from tripe. get all my in
formation regarding the matter from the
Butchers Adgocdte. the acknowledged jour-
nalistic authority on meaty matters.
The inventor claims that membranoid
will prove more serviceable, and at the
same time please the bookworm better,
than any other style of bookbinding 1t
is also susceptible of more artistic and gas
trio possibilities than any other substance.
The time is coming when the author, in
stead of trying to subsist on a paltry roy
atty, will be permitted to carry vinegar
flask in his hip pocket and board at the
bindery. The unsuccessful lawyer and
graduate of Harvard will not get as thin as
did while practicing law and banting
conveyancing and starvation, for he can
put little Halford sauce on his library
and feel pretty we'll afterward. How much
happier l would have been while practic-
ing law surreptitiously if could have put
some mustard on a New York decision or
given myself up to Simmons Digest.
Law is rule of action prescribing what
is right and prohibiting what is wrong, ac-
cording to my friend Mr.. Blackstone, who
got the idea from Justinian, but too often
the student and the solicitor find it poor
grazing and the common law, especially
short commons. (This is joke which I
used with good effect at the Inns of Court,
in London, where put up while in Eng
land.)
But now with our books bound in MEM
branoid, the boOkworm and the bott be-
come synonymous, and the day is not far
distant when hymn book or two during
Lent may proiong ones life.
The Read and Return" volumes on the
train will have to be chained to the seat,
and eminent but unprosperous authors
can subsist for time on the autograph
albums sent to them, using the return
stamps for Chilli sauce.
In addition to the use of tripe as book
binding, it will be used and utilized in the
and the time is coming when the Christ
mas tree will yield to the hungry and
weary one, not promise to the eye to be
broken to the heart, but no doubt as many
Shippers as at present, yet each one capable
OF making man meal.
In the onward march of membranoid I
am told also that the company will not
contine itself entirely to tripe, but will
roam about scientifically among the other
organs, and in the matter of literature will
seek, especially in the binding of medical
works, to use the membrane of the organ
on which the work treats, as, for instance,
menlngeal binding for works on the
brain and spine, a pleural binding for a
treatise on the diseases of the chest and
lungs, and so on as to diseases of the bones,
peritonltis, etc.
This leads US on to speak of other liter
airy efforts. among them sort of delayed
boom or the fragment of nominating
speech which was not accepted by the
candidate, and having been returned to