Volume 17 (1868) (428 pages)

—_— °° — eh WU wae vay. Subscription, 85 Per Annum, Ie Single Copies, 15 Cents. A Journal of Useful Arts, Science, and Mining and Mechanical Progress. BY PEWIEY & Co., Patent Sotleitors. San Francisco, SarurDay, Ocroser 17, 1868. VOLUME XVII. Number 16. Table of Contents, he Advance in the Writing of Annexultivn teellug in Sina: Phouetle svort-Mbuai—llis toa Estracilin of the Precious WeewaxicaL . Mixecviiasy — M:taly with Zinc. Promitt-tan of Stipes Keo. A the Ancient River uomleat Manutacture ot Ubaonels of Vallrorntia fran, Tungsten Steet: Env Cunurionilone forourCibluet teh Suundard Welghts awd oe Sunta Heat 23 a Direct Measies; Sterl — the sieator, Work ai the Foundries Evans’ Gurruvated Rite and Canecntratur, i mens-ALartin Process, CikvTIrte Mescnetaxy — Fos: Plants—Darwinism; . Anctout Traces of Man; Minerst and Agricultura! Combustion unider is ag l Tiles, Poures A Meteorite trom Geor The American Watch Stan gla; Atont Mechanles Asam clory. ING suesanRy—Coniprigias Bteam Tiuction on Cummon late Intelligence trom the ats various comntics arial dis. Natlonal Academy of Scltrietstn Caltrarula. Arizona, wliers., Coleradu, Ducolah, Idaho, Rullway Slena's Montana, Nevada, N. MextUeog-anhical> urlostly, eo, Uregen,. Tendency ot Guld. . Nulices to Uvrrespondents, Wares In the “otd Country.” New Incorporations, Mining In Sierra County. welure an Ghemleal Geology Safety Doors for Shafts. Atmitratiant Mirtinug Statistics. The Glant Powder. San Frattes-o Mining Sharehotlers’ Directurs. New Catents aml Inventions, San Francesco Market Rates. Stock Prlees—Bid and Asked. Advances in Phonetie Short-hand. How many there are who, at some stage or other in life, have devoted themsclves enthusiastically to the acquisition of that most natural and self-evident of all desiderata, the art of writing phonetic shorthand. Thought beiug tho distinetion of man ahove his fellow subjecfs in creation, we cannot but be reminded that it is very much like steam and electricity,— comparatively powerless, or only locally Operative, until it is caught, and controlled for the accomplishment of a partieular end. The history of writing, as it has advauced with the history of civilization, is oue of the most interesting of subjects, especially when treated by an able lecturer, who can savo one the mystilication and abstrnscness which are often encountered in the books. Short-hand has been presenting itself in the light of a desidcratum to philosophers from fncieut times, again and again ; and dabblers in short-hand may console themselves . With the reflection that they are all natural . philosophers. L In English, German, and French alike, stenographie systems have now been discarded, and phonographie oues substituted as the only kind of short-hand founded on scicntifie priuciples ; but in no lauguage or system have the natnral sounds of the human voice been so much regarded a3 in Pitman Phonography, which is now the system universally used in reportiug verhal proceedings. We are glad to be able to chronicle a real step in advance, in the writing of phonetic short-hand. Great revolutions come gradually—continents do not riso above the Ocean at a singleswoop. Though Pitman’s System was very meritorious, and very systematic, and beautiful, sothat every bright boy looking over its pages would beseized with a desire to learn it, yet his dreams of Aphonographic Utopia, when everybody would be writing “ fiy-tracks,” were preMature, and could not be expected to be realized. Two elements wore wanting: ease of acquiring it so as to be able to follow a Speaker, aud legibility. Nothing but years of practice can make a reliable reporter, and 2 want of the opportunity or the inducement to beuefit by such practice, furnishes the reason why so many old students of phouozraphy have little left of short-hand buta tew phouographic crotehets floating through the brain. A number of Americans lave labored enthusiastically to improve Pitman’s system by methodizing and abbreviating it Graham and Munson hayo published volumiuous works. They are destined to be superseded, we think, by the closer method, clearor analysis, moro thorough canvassing, . and laborious practical tria’ of all the possibilities of geometry, and of all conccivable combinations of the English langnage, which are displayed in Marsh’s Manual of! ing onco learned will have to be unlearned. has done away with a mass of uusystematic, complex, and contradictory material taught in most of the systems heretofore iu use; such as the turning over of the f and v to write fr and vr, the initial w hook, the heavy nr and mr, the arbitrary h, in place of which he makes use of the old style mp, the dot word signs, ete. For an old phouofrapher it will be found quite a satisfaction to look through Marsh’s book,—to see how every rule works as inevitably and unexceptionally as the law; so that nothCALIFORNIA GN pod Nap ee OS ne SG ead \ C 7S . ey 6) so t E 1 bo) — { <a = 4 if > et pees a oe Bias SY Nee ea { < a ‘ eae d SOT NOR A. Vr St SEN SE Nat a WSL eb Ga i 4 ee SG, & TF 3% ne Sep a a Se dyed ae = ds Gar Ee J Ww G Si 8, es wo. Ay eae (= "Te = pare ON, oe ee a et, ae = GN Dp 7 (ey, 26 = A“ a ~— x — Se = aes nt an So oe C2 [ham Phonetic Short-hand; the last pages of which have just been struck off at Hastman’s, for Bancroft & Co., the puhlishers. “Who is Marsh?” asked one of Pelton’s schoolboys of another, in the hearing of a friend. ‘‘ Marsh is the great reporter,” was the reply. Andrew J. Marsh is so well known in newspaper circles in New York and Wash. . ington, in California and Nevada, and in the) legal frateruity of this State, as to need no further introduction. Our duty is to furnish some accouut of what he has dono for . the advancement of phonetic short-hand. The accompanyiug plate, with the printed key below, will give an idea of tbe style, brevity and comparativo features of Marsb’s reporting, as taught in this book. Those who are in auy degree acquainted with short-hand, will observe that My. Marsh Y_ 42) ~ 1x63.) & 7 we The number of ingenious and handy things for reportorial use, which Myr. Marsh has systematized, will disclose quite a mine, even to Eastern and English short-hand writers, who will little expect to see anything of this kind emanating from California, Amougst the principal advantages of Marsh’s system, may be mentioned that it ean be learned in less time, that it can be written more briefly and rapidly, and that when written it is more numistakably legible than any other system. To which it is important to add, that though it differs iu detail from Pitman, Graham, aud Munson, tbere is nothing in it which, if adapted in whole or in part, would clash with any of them, except the words “‘were” and “‘are,’ written with the upward and downward r’s respectively. To contrib:te materially toward the development of a perfect system of writing is a modest labor which is by no means calenlated to incite torchlight processions and nightly serenades in honor of tho author ; but none can fail to see what a profound influence upon the world a few centuries hence, the simplification and universalizatiou of short-hand may cxerciso. To those who are interested in short-hand, or in any degree informed on the subject, the claim of Marsh’s book to superiority over cvery other system wil! speak for itself, [KEY TO PLATE.] CaLIronnia.—Suppose we were called upon to name on all the globe, to-day, the community of four hundred thousand persons most favorably placed, so far as domain, and prosperity, and prospects are concerned. Let a man turn tbe globe with compasses in his band, and hold them suspended, and deliberate as loug as he may, Idety him to fix tho point at any other place than Sacramento—right here at Agrienltural Hall—so that the sweep shall inelude the four hundred thonsand sonls within the jurisdiction of this Society. What other portion of the earth, beld hy one organization of less than half a million, will compare, in privilege, resources and hopes, with the portion of this yonng, beloved Benjamin of American States, whose autumn sack is now stuffed with graiu, while the mouth of it contains a cup ot gold? [Applause.] A line on the Atlantic coast, representing the length of our State, would run from Boston below Chesapeake Bay, below Capo Hatteras, below the batteries of Gilmore on Cummings Point, to the harbor of Port Royal. Aud nearly the whole of the area, with this vast water front, is one symmetrical’ domain, hy reason of tho mountains that uprear their five hundred miles of jagged whiteness in its back grouud ; the rivers that flow from the northward and the soutliward, fed from those snowy springs, to unite in the center of the State; and the bay that receives their volume, rivaling in its eouformation the Bay of Naples. Where else has the Almighty delivered to half a million of people such a line of eternal suow, looking down upon such opulent plains? Where else such a fellowship ot temperate and tropic climates? Where elso such rainless summers, which turn drouths into harvests ? Where else gold in the rocks, and, bending over the mills that crush them, peaches that mock the apples of gold in the garden of Hesperides? [Applause.] Where else such sweeps of wheat, such armies of noble cattle on a thonsand hills, such bloom of vineyards, and, beneath all, such variety of mineral wealth, which only centuries to come can tap and drain? Where else has the Almighty couuected such social blessings with material good—freedom, intelligence, scbools, multiplying churches, and loyalty--deliberate-principled, unconditional, invincible loyalty to the Governmeut, aud the policy, the freest, the noblest, the worthiest beneath the sun? [Applause.] I do not say this, gentlemen, in boasting. It is only the honest generalization of the map of California, and of the facts which your exhibition presents to our eyes this week. Iu privilege of position, and in regard to resources, and the future, the State of California, in the American Republic, is the most favored spot which tbis globe turus to the sun. [Applause. ]—Zomas Starr King, in his address before the State Agricullural Society, in 1863. ae 8 ee ee Loox to Your Exxrs.—If you will see C. Muller, 205 Montgomery street, you will doubtless be ableto see better, *

—_— °° — eh WU wae vay. Subscription, 85 Per Annum, Ie Single Copies, 15 Cents. A Journal of Useful Arts, Science, and Mining and Mechanical Progress. BY PEWIEY & Co., Patent Sotleitors. San Francisco, SarurDay, Ocroser 17, 1868. VOLUME XVII. Number 16. Table of Contents, he Advance in the Writing of Annexultivn teellug in Sina: Phouetle svort-Mbuai—llis toa Estracilin of the Precious WeewaxicaL . Mixecviiasy — M:taly with Zinc. Promitt-tan of Stipes Keo. A the Ancient River uomleat Manutacture ot Ubaonels of Vallrorntia fran, Tungsten Steet: Env Cunurionilone forourCibluet teh Suundard Welghts awd oe Sunta Heat 23 a Direct Measies; Sterl — the sieator, Work ai the Foundries Evans’ Gurruvated Rite and Canecntratur, i mens-ALartin Process, CikvTIrte Mescnetaxy — Fos: Plants—Darwinism; . Anctout Traces of Man; Minerst and Agricultura! Combustion unider is ag l Tiles, Poures A Meteorite trom Geor The American Watch Stan gla; Atont Mechanles Asam clory. ING suesanRy—Coniprigias Bteam Tiuction on Cummon late Intelligence trom the ats various comntics arial dis. Natlonal Academy of Scltrietstn Caltrarula. Arizona, wliers., Coleradu, Ducolah, Idaho, Rullway Slena's Montana, Nevada, N. MextUeog-anhical> urlostly, eo, Uregen,. Tendency ot Guld. . Nulices to Uvrrespondents, Wares In the “otd Country.” New Incorporations, Mining In Sierra County. welure an Ghemleal Geology Safety Doors for Shafts. Atmitratiant Mirtinug Statistics. The Glant Powder. San Frattes-o Mining Sharehotlers’ Directurs. New Catents aml Inventions, San Francesco Market Rates. Stock Prlees—Bid and Asked. Advances in Phonetie Short-hand. How many there are who, at some stage or other in life, have devoted themsclves enthusiastically to the acquisition of that most natural and self-evident of all desiderata, the art of writing phonetic shorthand. Thought beiug tho distinetion of man ahove his fellow subjecfs in creation, we cannot but be reminded that it is very much like steam and electricity,— comparatively powerless, or only locally Operative, until it is caught, and controlled for the accomplishment of a partieular end. The history of writing, as it has advauced with the history of civilization, is oue of the most interesting of subjects, especially when treated by an able lecturer, who can savo one the mystilication and abstrnscness which are often encountered in the books. Short-hand has been presenting itself in the light of a desidcratum to philosophers from fncieut times, again and again ; and dabblers in short-hand may console themselves . With the reflection that they are all natural . philosophers. L In English, German, and French alike, stenographie systems have now been discarded, and phonographie oues substituted as the only kind of short-hand founded on scicntifie priuciples ; but in no lauguage or system have the natnral sounds of the human voice been so much regarded a3 in Pitman Phonography, which is now the system universally used in reportiug verhal proceedings. We are glad to be able to chronicle a real step in advance, in the writing of phonetic short-hand. Great revolutions come gradually—continents do not riso above the Ocean at a singleswoop. Though Pitman’s System was very meritorious, and very systematic, and beautiful, sothat every bright boy looking over its pages would beseized with a desire to learn it, yet his dreams of Aphonographic Utopia, when everybody would be writing “ fiy-tracks,” were preMature, and could not be expected to be realized. Two elements wore wanting: ease of acquiring it so as to be able to follow a Speaker, aud legibility. Nothing but years of practice can make a reliable reporter, and 2 want of the opportunity or the inducement to beuefit by such practice, furnishes the reason why so many old students of phouozraphy have little left of short-hand buta tew phouographic crotehets floating through the brain. A number of Americans lave labored enthusiastically to improve Pitman’s system by methodizing and abbreviating it Graham and Munson hayo published volumiuous works. They are destined to be superseded, we think, by the closer method, clearor analysis, moro thorough canvassing, . and laborious practical tria’ of all the possibilities of geometry, and of all conccivable combinations of the English langnage, which are displayed in Marsh’s Manual of! ing onco learned will have to be unlearned. has done away with a mass of uusystematic, complex, and contradictory material taught in most of the systems heretofore iu use; such as the turning over of the f and v to write fr and vr, the initial w hook, the heavy nr and mr, the arbitrary h, in place of which he makes use of the old style mp, the dot word signs, ete. For an old phouofrapher it will be found quite a satisfaction to look through Marsh’s book,—to see how every rule works as inevitably and unexceptionally as the law; so that nothCALIFORNIA GN pod Nap ee OS ne SG ead \ C 7S . ey 6) so t E 1 bo) — { <a = 4 if > et pees a oe Bias SY Nee ea { < a ‘ eae d SOT NOR A. Vr St SEN SE Nat a WSL eb Ga

i 4 ee SG, & TF 3% ne Sep a a Se dyed ae = ds Gar Ee J Ww G Si 8, es wo. Ay eae (= "Te = pare ON, oe ee a et, ae = GN Dp 7 (ey, 26 = A“ a ~— x — Se = aes nt an So oe C2 [ham Phonetic Short-hand; the last pages of which have just been struck off at Hastman’s, for Bancroft & Co., the puhlishers. “Who is Marsh?” asked one of Pelton’s schoolboys of another, in the hearing of a friend. ‘‘ Marsh is the great reporter,” was the reply. Andrew J. Marsh is so well known in newspaper circles in New York and Wash. . ington, in California and Nevada, and in the) legal frateruity of this State, as to need no further introduction. Our duty is to furnish some accouut of what he has dono for . the advancement of phonetic short-hand. The accompanyiug plate, with the printed key below, will give an idea of tbe style, brevity and comparativo features of Marsb’s reporting, as taught in this book. Those who are in auy degree acquainted with short-hand, will observe that My. Marsh Y_ 42) ~ 1x63.) & 7 we The number of ingenious and handy things for reportorial use, which Myr. Marsh has systematized, will disclose quite a mine, even to Eastern and English short-hand writers, who will little expect to see anything of this kind emanating from California, Amougst the principal advantages of Marsh’s system, may be mentioned that it ean be learned in less time, that it can be written more briefly and rapidly, and that when written it is more numistakably legible than any other system. To which it is important to add, that though it differs iu detail from Pitman, Graham, aud Munson, tbere is nothing in it which, if adapted in whole or in part, would clash with any of them, except the words “‘were” and “‘are,’ written with the upward and downward r’s respectively. To contrib:te materially toward the development of a perfect system of writing is a modest labor which is by no means calenlated to incite torchlight processions and nightly serenades in honor of tho author ; but none can fail to see what a profound influence upon the world a few centuries hence, the simplification and universalizatiou of short-hand may cxerciso. To those who are interested in short-hand, or in any degree informed on the subject, the claim of Marsh’s book to superiority over cvery other system wil! speak for itself, [KEY TO PLATE.] CaLIronnia.—Suppose we were called upon to name on all the globe, to-day, the community of four hundred thousand persons most favorably placed, so far as domain, and prosperity, and prospects are concerned. Let a man turn tbe globe with compasses in his band, and hold them suspended, and deliberate as loug as he may, Idety him to fix tho point at any other place than Sacramento—right here at Agrienltural Hall—so that the sweep shall inelude the four hundred thonsand sonls within the jurisdiction of this Society. What other portion of the earth, beld hy one organization of less than half a million, will compare, in privilege, resources and hopes, with the portion of this yonng, beloved Benjamin of American States, whose autumn sack is now stuffed with graiu, while the mouth of it contains a cup ot gold? [Applause.] A line on the Atlantic coast, representing the length of our State, would run from Boston below Chesapeake Bay, below Capo Hatteras, below the batteries of Gilmore on Cummings Point, to the harbor of Port Royal. Aud nearly the whole of the area, with this vast water front, is one symmetrical’ domain, hy reason of tho mountains that uprear their five hundred miles of jagged whiteness in its back grouud ; the rivers that flow from the northward and the soutliward, fed from those snowy springs, to unite in the center of the State; and the bay that receives their volume, rivaling in its eouformation the Bay of Naples. Where else has the Almighty delivered to half a million of people such a line of eternal suow, looking down upon such opulent plains? Where else such a fellowship ot temperate and tropic climates? Where elso such rainless summers, which turn drouths into harvests ? Where else gold in the rocks, and, bending over the mills that crush them, peaches that mock the apples of gold in the garden of Hesperides? [Applause.] Where else such sweeps of wheat, such armies of noble cattle on a thonsand hills, such bloom of vineyards, and, beneath all, such variety of mineral wealth, which only centuries to come can tap and drain? Where else has the Almighty couuected such social blessings with material good—freedom, intelligence, scbools, multiplying churches, and loyalty--deliberate-principled, unconditional, invincible loyalty to the Governmeut, aud the policy, the freest, the noblest, the worthiest beneath the sun? [Applause.] I do not say this, gentlemen, in boasting. It is only the honest generalization of the map of California, and of the facts which your exhibition presents to our eyes this week. Iu privilege of position, and in regard to resources, and the future, the State of California, in the American Republic, is the most favored spot which tbis globe turus to the sun. [Applause. ]—Zomas Starr King, in his address before the State Agricullural Society, in 1863. ae 8 ee ee Loox to Your Exxrs.—If you will see C. Muller, 205 Montgomery street, you will doubtless be ableto see better, *