Typesetting By Photography In The Works

October 1925

TYPE-SETTING FILM

London — Type-setting by photography is the latest invention heralded as a printing revolution. J.R.C. August and E.K. Hunter, who have devised the system, predict that metal type printing will soon be obsolete. The basis of the invention is a film on which letters and all kinds of type have been photographed by means of a keyboard like that of a typewriter. Characters from a "master film" are projected in rapid sequence on to a sensitized base and photographed by fractional exposures.

Toads Valued in France

1925

Toads, the rotund garden variety, have a market value in France. The French gardeners claim that this warty-skinned amphibian devours its weight in injurious plant insects every 24 hours, and is encouraged to live in their gardens. Killing one of these insect hunters in France is considered the height of folly.


Bleaching Beeswax

Beeswax may be bleached by running in thin ribbons through a machine and allowing it to remain in the sunlight. Some beeswax bleaches more readily than others. It will take several weeks to bleach it.


Formation of Grand Bank

The Grand bank of Newfoundland is supposed to be composed of deposits of solid matter brought from the Arctic seas by icebergs, which gradually melt by contact with the warm water of the Gulf stream.


Ranks High in Literature

The Heimskringla has been called "the most important prose work in old Norse literature." It is a history of Norse kings. Some were mythical, others real. The author was an Icelander, Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241).


Mexican Frijol

The word frijol in Spanish connotes almost any variety of cultivated beans, but in Mexico it is applied almost exclusively to the brown or spotted varieties known in English-speaking countries as kidney beans.


Bee's Average Life Six Weeks

A bee hatched in early summer does not live to eat the honey it gathers, as its average life through the busy season is not more than six weeks. Only those born in late autumn live till the spring.

—Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1925.

Calls Tornado Visitation of Wrath of God

Griffin, Ind., Mar. 23. -- "God visited affliction on the wicked and it was atonement for wickedness that caused the tornado to wipe Griffin off the map," the Rev. Harold M. Corbell, captain of the Volunteers of America, told the few remaining residents of Griffin yesterday in the first and only religious service held in the stricken town since the storm. A number of Corbell's listeners lost relatives in the wreckage. None of them joined in the song sung by the preacher.

--The Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, North Dakota, March 23, 1925, page 1.