LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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| [Frontispiece] | |
| The N. Y. Tribune Building at Night. | [13] |
| A Contributor to the Waste-Paper Basket. | [16] |
| Office of the Editor-In-Chief. | [17] |
| Regular Contributors | [19] |
| How Some of the News is Gathered | [22] |
| Type-Setter’s Case In Pi. | [22] |
| Type-Setters’ Room. | [23] |
| Taking “Proofs.” | [24] |
| In the Stereotypers’ Room. | [25] |
| Finishing the Plate. | [27] |
| Printing Presses of the Past and Present | [30] |
| A News-Dealer. | [33] |
| A Bad Morning for the News-Boys. | [36] |
| “Any Answers come for Me?” | [37] |
| The First Umbrella. | [38] |
| What Jonas saw adown the Future. | [39] |
| Lord of the Twenty-Four Umbrellas. | [42] |
| A “Duck’s Back” Umbrella. | [44] |
| An Umbrella Handle Au Naturel. | [46] |
| Cutting the Covers. | [47] |
| Finishing the Handle. | [50] |
| Sewing “Pudding-Bag” Seams. | [51] |
| Completing the Umbrella | [53] |
| Master Paul did not feel Happy. | [55] |
| My Lady’s Toilet. | [58] |
| The New Circle Comb | [61] |
| Ancient or Modern—Which? | [62] |
| “In Some Remote Corner Of Spain.” | [65] |
| A Retort. | [72] |
| Kitty in the Gas-Works. | [77] |
| The Metre. | [77] |
| The Gasometre. | [83] |
| Inflating the “Buffalo.” | [87] |
| A Plucky Dog. | [91] |
| Our Balloon Camp. | [94] |
| The Professor’s Dilemma. | [99] |
| The Wreck of the “Buffalo.” | [101] |
| The Incubator. | [105] |
| How the Chicken is Packed. | [117] |
| How the Shell is Cracked. | [118] |
| The Artificial Mother. | [120] |
| The Chickadee. | [126] |
| The Black Snow-Bird. | [129] |
| The Snow Bunting. | [133] |
| The Brown Creeper. | [134] |
| Nuthatches. | [136] |
| The Downy Woodpecker. | [138] |
| Fourth Order Light-House. | [141] |
| A Modern Light-House | [144] |
| Light-House on Mt. Desert. | [147] |
| Light-House at “The Thimble Shoal” | [151] |
| First Class Light-Ship. | [154] |
| The Blind Broom-Maker of Barnstable. | [159] |
| A Gay Cavalcade. | [160] |
| The Comedy of Brooms. | [163] |
| Up in the Attic. | [164] |
| Plant the Broom! | [166] |
| The Tragedy of Brooms. | [169] |
| In Obedience to the Signals. | [177] |
| The Potter’s Wheel. | [184] |
| The Kiln and Saggers. | [186] |
| Mould for a cup. | [188] |
| Handle Mould. | [188] |
| Making a Sugar-Bowl. | [189] |
| Rest for flat Dishes. | [191] |
| The Target. | [201] |
| Dolly’s Shoes | [204] |
| A Maine Wood-Chopper. | [211] |
| A River-Driver. | [214] |
| “The Liberated Logs came sailing along.” | [216] |
| Through the Sluice. | [218] |
ILLUSTRATED SCIENCE FOR
BOYS AND GIRLS.
HOW NEWSPAPERS ARE MADE.
We will suppose that it is a great newspaper, in a great city, printing daily 25,000, or more, copies. Here it is, with wide columns, with small, compact type, with very little space wasted in head lines, eight large pages of it, something like 100,000 words printed upon it, and sold for four cents—25,000 words for a cent. It is a great institution—a power greater than a hundred banking-houses, than a hundred politicians, than a hundred clergymen. It collects and scatters news; it instructs and entertains with valuable and sprightly articles; it forms and concentrates public opinion; it in one way or another, brings its influence to bear upon millions of people, in its own, and other lands. Who would not like to know something about it?
And there is Tom, first of all, who declares that he is going to be a business man, and who already has a bank-book with a good many dollars entered on its credit side—there is Tom, I say, asking first of all: “How much does it cost? and where does the money come from? and is it a paying concern?” Tom shall not have his questions expressly answered; for it isn’t exactly his business; but here are some points from which he may figure: