Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — What Type Setting Means. [ARTICLE]

What Type Setting Means.

In Betting and distributing type a compositor’s hand travels on an averaga eleven miles a day. Leaving Sundays and holidays out of account, this means 3,000 miles a year. More than half the deaths among compositors are due to lung diseases. In the course of his lifetime an average man gets through about 2,500 miles of reading matter.