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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1884-12-12, Page 3M wr.•tv.Ml- I. the 001••.t ....tel and social d - we wart nil the art the mode of sona- ,nric ting t►..Obt by the ordinary e1 w heed is felt to be ehet- ape •>t in Q. Test dsgvw, and 'sweetly jM.ss �e ►d inreati►r. Way ant .tgploy M..pI• eyes ineteed of the pre- sses .sses intricate sad e.oNs* letters el oar alphabet, as a. d a Its. A redid (rum the slavish beide of loag-kcal te Iuuad ie the pa�iry� �eh.b..eaetcrs ►d the "winged .rt"-PM/.Ry7, which is .aksus- ledged y .usp•test ledges to be the beat system .1 ehuttlra.d extant. It is the naiades of Imes Pittw, 44 Nath, Seg., and dates M far back as 1837. Mama thee it hes hese steadily rrowlatt i• fatur. if the $Kerrie Mridee wade by this labor -melee art sea b. rolled •'.t•d." Its iaveati'e has made abort - head possible to the ceases, as before that time shorthand -writing was known only to a few,who used it petf•ssiosally, crit was e=eeediagly dideah to seeder. Dickers decree« is 'David Coppertield' kis tragic attempts in learning an old *Mem of steenersphy, which acooes- pbsbmest he Mid was equal to the acquirement of six languages. Now, any one of ordinary capeeity, any intelligent buy or girl who can see a pen and dis- tinguish the dilerett suusds in the las/sage, oma be made a pbenogrpber with a few months of application. The y1ms in brief w :hie. Oar lan- guage «mains about 43 distinct .•wads. By providing easily made signs (or let- ters) for each of these sounds, ore sign representing only nee sound ; and these sagas being of the mat simple character -s straight stroke, or simple curve, thict or thin, written at differuot slopes; and by the union of there with dots and dishes, and abbreviating principle., we may impress with the rapidity and fr edify of speech what takes now nosh an espeodit.re ac tame, labor and paper. This is the Phonetic plan, gad eo system bas yet bees devised of approaching merit. To the alimony of this system of shorthand we owe the daily reports of our Legislatures, aid the utterances of public speakers generally, besides its .mpklymeut in the courts for recordit.F evidence verbatim. Shotthbnd has many other msg. The merchant bads it in- valuable in the deapatea of his axree- poedenes, dilating to his sauneasie replies to his letters. The stalest by its use obtains consoles notes of blots to which he has not often seem, and secures verbatim reports of hie ledtre entree. The lawyersod physician Gad it metal foe their diaries, sao•raada and tenets' *opposition. These who ere able to sus it in private oorrsspoad»ee regard it as a "heavesborn' art, and the number of th.se is thsaMnds epee tho.snds i. the English-speaking cot.triss ui the world. --(Et. Eves those who receive noth"• of Chest's divine uniptos merest that H. has surpsatled all who have lived in the quality and quietly of ped that hes fallse bask a risk wade from ilia sheeldpt M be caught by shoulders of pus exposed to essay a Mess. eiraterlehleselbeds rim HIMON SIGNAL FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 18b4. 5 TO THE LADIES OF GODERICH. Aoegetsota. Dee. 11. MM. winos.frame f;