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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF ALL THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



Eighth Yeah. 

 Vol. XV. No. 375. 



NEW YOEK, April 11, 1890. 



Single Copies, Ten Cents. 

 3.50 Pee Yeak, in Advance. 



A SHORTHAND TYPE-WRITER. 



A VERY ingenious piece of mechanism, intended to lighten 

 the labor of the shorthand reporter, is shown in the illustra- 

 tion on this page. It is the invention of Mr. G. K. Anderson 

 of Boston, and is known as the shorthand type-writer. As its 

 name indicates, it is an adaptation of the principle of the type- 

 writer to an instrument for recording, in legible characters, 

 the words of a speaker as fast as they may be uttered. It is 

 claimed by its inventor that an operator of ordinary dexterity 

 and intelligence will be able to write from dictation, with this 

 instrument, at the rate of a hundred words per minute after 

 only five or six weeks' practice. It is also claimed that from 

 two hundred to two hundred and fifty words may be printed on 



that in England the people neither eat nor grow so many plants 

 for salad as in France. He dwelt, says Nature, upon the nu- 

 tritive value of salads due to the potash salts, which, though 

 present in vegetables generally, are eliminated in the process of 

 cooking. He then enumerated the various plants which are 

 used in salads in France; namely, the leaves of lettuce, corn- 

 salad, common cbiccory, barbe de capucin, curled and Batavian 

 endives, dandelion in its several forms of green, blanched, and 

 half-blanched, water-cresses, purslane in small quantities, 

 blanched salsify-tops of a pleasant nutty flavor, witloof or 

 Brussels cbiccory, the roots of celeriac, rampion, and radish, 

 the bulbs of stachys, the stalks of celery, the flowers of nastur- 

 tium and yucca, the fruit of capsicum and tomato, and, in the 

 south of France, rocket, picridium, and Spanish onions. Vari- 



THE ANDERSON SHORTHAND TYPE-WRITER. 



this machine with the same number of strokes required to print 

 forty or fifty on an ordinary type-writer. 



The printing is done on a continuous strip of paper, similar 

 to that used in the printing telegraph or the stock quotation 

 "ticker." After each impression, which may be made by only 

 one key, or by all the keys at once, or by any combination of 

 keys, the paper is moved forward automatically, ready for the 

 next impression. The key-board contains only the most fre- 

 quently used letters in the alphabet, the other letters being 

 represented by certain arbitrary combinations of those on the 

 board. 



SALADS. 

 At the fortnightly meeting of the Royal Horticultural Soci- 

 ety recently, M. Henri de Vilmorin, president of the Botanical 

 Society of France, delivered a lecture on salads, mentioning 



ous herbs are added to a French salad to flavor or garnish it^ 

 such as chervil, chives, shallot, and borage flowers. In addi- 

 tion, many boiled vegetables are dressed with vinegar and oil. 

 M. de Vilmorin then showed specimens of dandelion, barbe de 

 capucin, and witloof, both varieties of cbiccory, which he 

 recommended to the notice of English gardeners as most useful 

 and palatable. He mentioned that from a ton to a ton and a half 

 of witloof is daily carried to the Paris market from Brussels, ■ 

 where it is grown in the greatest perfection. Specimens of 

 English salads grown in the month of March, and consisting of 

 corn-salad, lettuce, and blanched cbiccory, were sent from the- 

 Marquis of Salisbury's gardens at Hatfield. Among the other 

 exhibits was a quaint orchid (Codogyne pandurata) , a native 

 of Borneo, sent from Kew Gardens. The flower is bright green, 

 like the color of forced lilac-leaves, with a dull jet-black blotch, 

 and lines on the lip. 



