Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
e PITTsBURe DISPATCH,
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Literary Genius Now Able to Cope
With St0machic Craving.
BOOK BINDINGS MADE OF TRIPE.
A Correction Of q Personal Allusion in q
Swedish Newspaper.
EXHIBITS FOR THE CHICAGO FAIR
WRITTEN FOR THE p1sPArcH.1

FOR THE D1SPATCH.1
Being on the eve, as may say, of pub
fishing book, hail with i'll concealed joy
the announcement that q company has been
recently formed with capital of 500, 900,
and located at Newark, N. j., for the man
ufacture of ':membranoid" for bookbind-
ings.
This is new style of ornamental leather
made from tripe. I get all my information
regarding the matter from the Butchers
Advocate, the acknowledged journalistic
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 gastric possibilities than sany
other substance. The time is coming when
the author, instead of trying to subsist on.a
paltry royalty, 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
I did while practicing law and banting, con-
veyancing and starving, for he can put
little Halford sauce on his library and feel
pretty well afterward How much happier
1 would have been while practicing law
surreptitiously it I could have put some
mustard on a New York decision or given
myself up to Simmons Digest.
According to His Friend Blackstone.
Law is a rule of action prescribing what is
right and prohibiting what is wrong, accord
ing to nv 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 I put up while in
England) But now with our books
bound in membranod, the bookworm and
the bott become synonymous, and the day
is not far distant when a hymn book or two
during Lent may prolong ones life.
The "Read and Return" volumes on the
train will then 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
STAN ps for Chile sauce. In addition to the
use Of tripe as a bookbinding, it will be
used and utilized in the manufacture of
slippers for the pastors, and the time is
coming when the Christmas tree will yield
TO the hungry anu veal ouOs Hos pI oAiiSo
to the eye TO be broken to the heart, but no
doubt as many slippers as at presenE yet
each one capable OF making man meal
In the onward march of membranoid am
told also that the company will not confine
itself entirely to tripe, but will roam about
scientifically among the other organs, and
in the matter of medical works, to use the
membrane of the organ on which the work
treats, as, for instance, a meningeal binding
for works on the brain and spine, a pleural
binding for treatise on the diseases of the
chest and lungs, and so on as to diseases OF
the bones, peritonitis, etc.
Bit of Campaign Literature.
This leads us on to speak of other literary
efforts, among them sort OF delayed boom
or the fragment of a nominating speech
which was not accepted by the candidate,
and having been returned to the author, the
editor of a Winston paper, as being unavail-
able, was used by him in his paper and
adapted to the use of gentleman who had
doubtless paid up his subscription or, sent
in bit of bridal cake. e., bridal bit as
it were. Below give the paragraph as it
is printed, for it is a gem of forensic beauty