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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 28: day and night in the Tribune office. (search)
must be again in the office at nine, to distribute type and set up news for the evening edition of the paper. The second phalanx begins work at two, the third at five; and at seven the whole company must be at their posts; for, at seven, the business of the night begins in earnest. Printers will have their joke—as appears from this list. It is set in double columns, and as the number of men happened to be an uneven one, one name was obliged to occupy a line by itself, and it appears thus—Baker, (the teat-pig.) The following notice deserves attention from the word with which it begins: Gentlemen desiring to wash and soak their distributing matter will please use hereafter the metal galleys I had cast for the purpose, as it is ruinous to galleys having wooden sides to keep wet type in them locked up. Thos. N. Rooker. It took the world an unknown number of thousand years to arrive at that word Gen-Tlemen. Indeed, the world has not arrived at it; but there it is, in the composin