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Temuka Leader, Issue 2354, 10 May 1892, Page 3

Printing machines are usually driven by steam or gas motors, but the machine which prints a certain newspaper in America is run by dog power. A large wheel about 10 feet in diameter and two in width is connected with the driving rigger of the machine by means of a belt; strips of wood, for foothold, are placed a foot apart on the inside of the wheel, where " Joe," tho journalistic dog, walks his weary round, and thus causes the wheel to revolve. Joe has run the press for about five years, and has faithfully earned his board and lodging, but it is now about time for him to feel ill and " turn it up," being unable to continue turning it around. Talking of the fatal facility with which people can be got to sign petitions, the editor of the New York Journal of Commerce tells a capital story, and vouches for its truth. Forty years ago, he says, a gentleman made a bet that he could get 100 prominent Churchmen to sign a petition to have the Bishop of New York hanged. He liftd a long petition drawn up, beginning with the words " Whereas the best interest of the Protestant Episcopal Church," tfec, and going on after a long preamble, to demand that the Bishop should be suspended by the. neck, the petition was engrossed in proper style and sent round by a canvasser, who told no lies about it, simply representing it as a petition to the ecclesiastical authorities in a matter that would deeply affect the welfare of the Church. Once a few wellknown names had been got at the head of the list, the bet was soon won j | and the audacious petitioner said he