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  • Miscellaneous Toasts

    These might be multiplied indefinitely, but a sufficient number are given to serve as hints to the person who is able to make his own toasts, yet seeks a little aid to lift him out of the common rut.. Marriage: The happy estate which resembles a pair of shears; so joined that they cannot be […]

  • Toasts

    A toast may be given either with or without a sentiment attached, and in either case a response is equally fitting; but in the former the subject is narrowed and defined by the nature of the sentiment. Yet the speaker teed not hold himself closely to the sentiment, which is often made rather a point […]

  • Wedding And Other Anniversaries

    Another wide field for the oratory of entertainment is to be found in the various celebrations that mark the passage of specific or notable portions of time—centennial, semi-centennial, and quadrennial; likewise weddings, annual, tin, paper, crystal, silver, and golden. The speeches for these differ widely in character. They may take the form of congratulatory addresses, […]

  • Addresses Of Welcome

    In our country the number of voluntary associations that visit similar associations, or meet at special times and places is very large. Often such associations are furnished with free board and lodging by the people of the place where the assemblage occurs. Facilities for assemblage and enjoyment are offered and other privileges tendered that are […]

  • After Dinner Speeches – Ancient And Modern

    An idea of the real meaning of after-dinner speaking may be obtained from the feudal feasts of earlier times. The old lord or baron of the Middle Ages partook of his principal meal in the great hall of his castle, surrounded by guests, each being assigned his place in formal order and with no small […]

  • Polytyping And Logography

    Conforming to the chronological order of this booklet, a report is now due on two methods known as Polytyping and Logography. Polytyping is the art of producing by mechanical means, from engraved plates or otherwise, any number of plates capable of multiplication. The “sister arts” Stereotyping and Polytyping are so connected, and the processes, which […]

  • The Clay Process

    During the same period when Ged was working out his stereotyping process, a French printer, GABRIEL VALLEYRE by name, invented in 1730 a method of casting plates in molds, which he used for making calendars which were placed at the opening page of church books. The method discovered by Valleyre was the so-called clay process. […]

  • The Story Of William Ged

    A great advance in the newborn art of stereotyping was effected by William Ged, (born 1690, died 1749). We owe the following data concerning Ged to his own book entitled: “Bibliographical Memoirs of William Ged, including a particular Account of his Progress in the Art of Block-Printing. 1781. London.” By birth a Scotchman, Ged was […]

  • Invention Of Stereotyping

    The first experiments at stereotyping in the sense of the definition placed at the beginning of this chapter were made in Europe in 1701. JOHANNES MUELLER, clergyman of the Reformed Church in Leyden, Holland, discovered a new way of utilizing the art of printing by employing movable types. After the pages had been composed, corrected […]

  • A Chinese Printing Pioneer

    It appears that the first attempt known to exercise a crude sort of stereotyping was made in China; however, the method used was later lost and never introduced in Europe. In the year 1041 a Chinese blacksmith, named PI-SHENG, invented a method of printing with plates, called “ho-pan”, or with plates formed of movable types—this […]

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