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The Evolution of the Typewriter Like nil mechanical appliances the type- writer has been subjected to a succession of improving processes, and. like the clock and watch, or the grub and the butterfly, has been evolved from a crude, imperfect recorder into a smooth working, reliable, swift-running apparatus for registering ideas. Its merits as contained in the New Densmore machine, 202 Broadway, New York, are the following : perfect and per- manent alignment; ease with which writ- ing is brought into sight; carriages changed instantly without tools ; conven- ient working and arrangement of ribbons; accurate manifolding ; durable connecting rods ; tension space connected with uni- versal type bar immediately in the back and adjusted with thumb screw, which is simple and convenient: all operations per- formed perfectly, easily and noiselessly. The Densmore family are the pioneers in the typewriting field and stood by the enterprise for fifteen years, while the suc- cess of the type-writer hung in the balance. They viewed with interest the efforts of inventors who were introducing improved instruments on different principles from those embodied in the earlier machine, and now, after many trained minds have given years of thought and toil to solve the problems involved, they believe that the *•' Densmore ” has overcome the chief defects. The crowded offices on Broadway testify to the popularity of this new acquisition in the tyj»ewriter field. The Telegraph and Typewriter. 'Fhe typewriter and telegraph have been ustnl for<>ome time simultaneously. The tri-trip of the type \#fi ter sounds so much like the Jot-dash of telegraph instru- ment that it seems curious that no confu- sion i.s occasioned. * There is, howevgr, no real similarity be- tween these sounds sft ^far as the trained ear is concerned. r lH#e difficulty is in simultaneously striking the right typewriter letter, in turning the lilies correctly and in not making a slip, so that it will be im- |x»s>ible for you to keep jip with the tele- graph ktw. Of obiHise one can write faster on the typewriter than on the Morse sys- tem; hut the-turning the lines, the spacing and the hyphenating at the endiii* of the l ines when you neglect to carry over the whole woiul, brings the speed very closely to the Morse key. The telegraph