HOW LITHOGRAPHY WAS DISCOVERED.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 12, 13 January 1877, Page 4

HOW LITHOGRAPHY WAS DISCOVERED.

i v - (j&merican Stationer.) W Z After the first triumphant per/ormsnce of Mozart's Opera " Don Jaan," at Munich, the theatre Was deserted by aU except one man, , Alpise Senefelder bad still much to do. After seeing oarefaUy around; the stage that no '• spark? had 'ignited about tbe theatre, he^retired' to his little room to stamp the J^eatre/ pickets for the following day. As be entered the room he bad three IhTngs in his hand— a polished whetstone for razors, which be had purchased, a ticket stamp moistened v^itli : jpHaier- , ink, aod a check on the; tß|aife ,: freisury fo? hiß " weekly pay,C He piaeed tiie check on the table, when ; a^uetjpj; wind took it, swept it high op. ifttbe'rooni for "a; moment and then de-/ - pastt-d it -in a baa'rn filled with water; Senefelder took the wei paper, dried it a^iwell as he could, find then "to .-ea!w| '-•.-' «n.rjs ! of. -'-.U:^eightedjt''°dqwb.'wj[th..t|^e"''. whetstone, on wh i_f_ he had before carelessly placed the printing stamp. Retnyrning to, his room on the following Baoroihg, he was surprised to see the letters of the stamp printed wilh re--oarkable accoraicy 1 upon the- damp paper. He gazed long at the check; a. sWden thought 7'fiasbed 1 through -his brlinj .^q wo^dere^ if by aacb. ineaffa. ha^cpuld not save himself the weary trouble he continually had of copying. '..A the scores of the. chorus, v Thftt , very morgipg; he went, oat .apd purchase^ a - -. larger stone and commenced to make experiments, and, as we all know, finally succeeded in discovering the , art of printing frpm stone—lithography.