REMARKABLE MAN OR STORY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3185, 13 September 1881, Page 4

REMARKABLE MAN OR STORY.

The most rr>m<iik;iblfi newpspaper mnn in the United Sta*p« Vive* at Angles Cnmp, in OnlavfM-ne '\jiint.v. His namr« is *\ S. Wufcemvinn. He is v>4 rears olrl. and ha« hf't'/a paralysed over since he was born. He Vras born in AntreK and wa* never been a way from thvvtnwn once, wh*»n be went in search of medical :ti 1, huh fuiled to find any. •;is is in the upper and lower limb*, which he cannot more. *■? is speech is affected, and it is only with difficulty that he can talk at 'all. JEarly in life he manifested a liking for moveable type, which he placed in position with his teeth. He soon began to cub type out of wood, holding the engraving tools hetween his teeth when he used them. TTe has made a good deal of block type in this way, with which he at present conducts a small job printing business. He also sets met:il typp ■with lm Wiitcrmann \vn«( nnp of t.hp founders of the Mountain Echo, a weekly paper now published in \n?ela. TTe =et n good deal of the type on this paper with hi* teeth, and having n (rood eVhuviHon, manufactured his and other articles as he went along. He is now out of the newspaper business, f»nd confines himself entirely to job printing and engraving. He does all the prowrumme nnd invitation work for tho town, frequently engraving small special designs for his jobs. His press-work, of course, he cannot.do with his teeth, and employs a boy to do that part of the work for him—the only part he cannot do himself,—Stockton (Pal.) Mail.