How Lithography Was Discovered.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 69, 23 February 1885, Page 4

How Lithography Was Discovered.

\ | After the fiirst triumphant performance of Mazart^s opera " Pon Juan..' st 1 Munich, the theatre Vas diserte'd by afl except i one ; ' ipan. Alojs Sennefel(Jer , has rnuchi to. do. Afiter seeing around;. the. stage that no sparks had ignited, he* retired to his room to stamp the theatre titike'ts following iday. As he -enter-' ed the room he^had three things m his ! hand— a polished whetstone 1 for irazorb;; a ticket stamp moistened with printers' irik^ kfid a' cheque on the' theatre tre^stfr^ for 1 his weekly pay. lie placed' fhe cheque on ,the tablei Vejiferia gust bfwlnd'took it, swept ( i|t Hi^h up ! ib his room and then 4?-, posited it/in a basin^jie^ with water,. Sennefelqer , tooic the wet paper,: of it,, .weighted, it down with the whetstone, on which -he had'JJiefore carelessly placed 1 the printing stamn. Retjirning to his room on the fbllowing morning, lie %as surprised to see * the letters of the stamp, printed with. ..remark-able Accuracy upon the damp paper. He gazed long at the -chequeiTk sudden: thought .flashed through his brain ; he. wpndered if ;b.y some such means he couj4. nptsavcihimself the trouble. -; he continually bad . of t copy ing the Spflgs^of the i chorus. ;Thafc : very morninghe ,wend out -and purchased' > i larger stone, and commenced to ipake experinlents, and ; filially suc<jeedeid)ini >; disco.vering :the arij-oof printing from;istone; •••:: ; >i i.'!