The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-11-30

evolving this, and his wife became SO
J interested that she was impatient to
! have it finished. When he finally did
get it done-that is, in his head-it
was a rather complicated thing.
| "Pm afraid, Kath, that I haven't
got the spreading clutch In the type
writer so that it will work, but that
Is a mere matter of mechanism, after
all. The principle of the thing is
right. Make typewriter copy OF
each piece that is to go into the paper.
Have each one complete in itself on a
long strip of thick cardboard. Have
the typewriter so constructed with a
spreading clutch that 1t Will print
each line just even full every time.
Hanging against the wall have Dig
fac-simile of each page of the paper,
blank all but the column rules and
the heading, with the distance be-
tween the column rules just the width
of the sheets of cardboard. Slide
these printed slips of cardboard In
between the column rules wherever
you want them to go, until the page ls
full. Then with big camera take
photograph of the whole page, make
a zinc plate reproduction, stereotype
it and there you are. You have seen
these little baby fac-similes OF news
papers; this last part of 1t Is done
Just like that"
"But when the sun didn't shine we
wouldn't get any paper.
"They take pictures now by elec-
trio light, Kath."
}, 81 suppose they do; they have to
kave electricity in everything now.
And their wires ale getting crossed
ey cry day or two, killing people and
horses, till I'm almost afraid to go
down street L should think, John,
. you might fix them somehow"
John said he would attend to it the
very next thing The following night,
, almost as soon as he began to think.
/ it came to him.
81 have it, Kath; I have it the first
, thing. Spun glass! Cover the wires
, with spun glass. Weave it on the
, wire when you make the wire. 1t
will bend and won't break; it will
never wear out, and it will keep elec.
tricity right on the wire. All the
. wires on street could be twisted
together into one cable, and not a Bit
of electricity could get from one wire
, to another"
And he pulled at his pipe with an
air Of triumph.
John Simpson" said his wife sud
denly, holding up his butchers jump
er, 81 do believe you are growing
stout The lower buttonhole in this
jumper is torn clear to the binding
and the button is coming off. Stand
up a minute and try it on. l want tc
| see what I must do"
. So John Simpson laid down his
pipe and put On his jumper, and stood
holding up first one elbow and then
the other.
Hmm" said his wife; 'that jump
er won't last but a week or two, any
way; it's all worn through on the
shoulders. And when the button is
sewed on as it should be, you cant
make it meet the buttonhole. Let
me-see."
She took from her work-basket a
little narrow India-rubber band, put
it through the b 1ttonhole, slipped one
end of the rubber band through the
other, and buttoned the loop over the
button.
'"There," said she, "now you car
grow all you want to; the rubber will
give"
Next day at the shop a shrewd
clothing manufacturer caught sigh
, of John Simpsons India rubber
buttonhole. To make a long story
, short, the butcher and the clothing
manufacturer had the buttonholt
patented, and thoughtful John Stimp
son and his wife are worth this day
|, a hundred thousand dollars.