. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . in the morn-ing he would carefully place asheet on the tympan, close thefrisket over it, and shut themdown upon the form of type;then, by a crank, he would runthe table in under the platen,and pull the handle of the lever, over by his full weight, bring-ing a powerful pressure on thetympan, producing upon thepaper a facsimile of the type; asbe released his hold, the balance-weight raised the platen, thetympan and the frisket wereraised by the pressman, the fris-ket was thrown up to the catch, and the paper was then takenoff the spurs of
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . in the morn-ing he would carefully place asheet on the tympan, close thefrisket over it, and shut themdown upon the form of type;then, by a crank, he would runthe table in under the platen,and pull the handle of the lever, over by his full weight, bring-ing a powerful pressure on thetympan, producing upon thepaper a facsimile of the type; asbe released his hold, the balance-weight raised the platen, thetympan and the frisket wereraised by the pressman, the fris-ket was thrown up to the catch, and the paper was then takenoff the spurs of the points; and thus one side of a sheet wasprinted. Now, by improved presses and the wonderful art ofstereotyping, one hundred thousand readers can be suppliedwith newspapers in four hours. But it is in means of light, locomotion, and communicationthat the progress in this generation contrasts with the aggre-gate of progress in all generations put together since theearliest days of authentic history. The lamps and torches which illuminated Belshazzars. NOT A CIRCULATING LIBRARY. 384 MODERN LIGHT AND LOCOMOTION. feast were probably as brilliant, and perhaps formed of thesame materials, as those which shone on the fetes of Versailleswhen Marie Antoinette presided over them, or the Tuileriesduring the magnificence of the first Napoleon; or at thereceptions of Washington in the Capitol of our country. Pinewood, oil, and perhaps wax. were the materials lor light inthe eighteenth century before Christ and in the eighteenthcentury after Christ. A hundred years ago we burned thesame materials, and obtained about the same amount of light,as they did live thousand years ago. The streets of citieswhich from the days of Pharaoh till 1800 were dim andgloomy are now lit ii]> with the brightness of of ns remember the oil lamps in our streets, makingdarkness visible. Now we use gas, of winch each burner Isequal to fifteen or twenty candles, and the electric light, stillmore
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