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peed is about 30,000 revolutions per minute, or 500 termed the Americanized Chinese, or the per second. Such a velocity of rotation New Chinaman, as the editor is a Chin- will no longer arouse much astonishment | —- BA ese minister of the Presbyterian Church, after the high speeds attained by the… … Chinese compositor. The lens, rocking while its axis of oscil- A SAN FRANCISCO CHINESE NEWSPAPER. The American typesetter is obliged to lation turns about the axis of rotation be familiar with twenty-six letters, ten normal to the former, may be said to figures and a few signs and symbols, as…

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