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to be one ol Zr-7is, with no allustrations. This 1s not dealt with l)y clectrotyping —it 1s stercotyped. First the “forme” of type 1s placed upon a flat plate, ap])utunnw to o roller-press, and covered with a moist_ sheet of papicr-macké. This is then passed under the press, so - that the papier-mache, bemg pressed into the interstices of the Ly, conies away a perlect mould, or “matriy,” as It called, of the page as set up. AN 15 dricd, and, il found to be perfeet; is inserted in the “casting block,” having first heen dusted with Trench chalk. The *casting Dlock 1 o sort of massive eylindrical frame of iron, opening on a hinge as shown by the illustration wherein arc

two “Dblocks,” once shut and onc open. The mterior ol this easting - i “uim Llock 2 is so made that y

the matriz on being set 15 proper place i curved imwards to a certain desired devree o the block is shut, and the workman, turning (o the small furnace, takes a dip of molten lead moa pecuharhvshaped Tadle, and pours 1t into the block. When metal comes out o the form of a scgment of a cvlinder, having upon it raised letters inexact fae- senile of - the original

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MAGAZLINE. This s carclully examimed and touched up, the blank spaces being gouged deeper, the curve inally corrected on a saddle, and the back and cdges planed true. It then travels down to the machine-room to be o fitted upon the eylinder in the printing machine.

[n the case of a page of the STrRAaND the procedure 1s different. st the type s carefully eleanced and dusted over with black-lead. Next a shecet of wax 1s obtained by pouring the substance, inaliquid state, mto metal trays. lhl,shut when firm, s shaved down to an exact thickness by a machine, the large wheel of which, with its

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projecting handles, may be scen o the illustration. Then

it 1s placed upon the sct-up type, and the two together are mserted i a special press- this one s, n fact, the enly specimen e Europe which 1s tosted to a0 pressure of 280 tons. When withdrawn from this press the wax sheet readily Teaves the type, the black-lead preventing any adhesion.

[t 15 then seen to he an exact counterpart, sunk and i reverse, of the type and illustra- tion-blocks upon which 1t has been pressed.

Having been carefully examined for the detection of any faults and *“loaded up”

with additional wax in blank spaces; it 1s given o complete but thin powdering of Dlack-lead 1 a powderimg machine, wherem a rotary brush drives the lead well into the surface of the wax. This 18 because the black-lead 15 a conductor of clectricity, and is, as such, nceessary mo the subscquent

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