Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-08-13

rags nad oeen collected from all the col
r ners of the Paclfa's dominions-from til
living and the dead. How many cas-
Off garments Of Howadjis and Hadiis
how many tuns of big. loose Turkish
ragged breeches; and how many head
piecea in the shape of old dotted tur
oans, the deponent sayeth not. But the
most singular and the cleanest division
of the whole filthy mass came not from
the limbs Of the present generation O
travelers-pilstims, peasants, soldiers,
and sailors of Egypt-but were the
plundered wtappings of men, bulls. croco-
diles and cats, torn from the respectable
defunct members of the same.
What scene to call Up the grim past!
And what desecration, too, to take the
garments of the Pharaohs, Ramesees.
and of sacred bulls, holy crocodiles and
pious eats, and mingling them with the
Vulgar unmentionables of the shave pated
herd of modern Egyptians, to ship them
to the other side of the world-to a land
which Ptolemy's map had no room for
there to grind them up to the music Of
cogwheels and the falls of the Cobosse
Contee ] How little did the religious o Id
Egyptians think that fhoy were piling
away stores for the future cash accounts
of Turkomans, and that the linen folds
which so carefully bandaged their holy
dead, should one day make the beautiful
y and highly calendered paper on which
Bonner prints the New York Ledqer.
Yes, In the two great paper mills, known
as Richards g. Haskins, and the Great
Falls Company of Gardiner, | found that
thousands Of rcams are monthly turned
out for the NeS York Ledger, The Bos-
ION Journal, the conservative Boston
Courier, the old line Whi.' (O Aduer
ttser, and the penny Herald, all of the
City of Notions
Mummy cloth a. well as old rag, OF
Italy, how do they manage to produce
so many rags there y arc ground up and
come forth mingled in fond embrace and
IN the purest white. 1t has been ascer-
tanned that some of the Egyptian rags
contain about 40 per cent of dust and
dirt. The dust doubtless consists of
many fine particles of Pharaoh's en-
balmed subjects, but not few of the
modern rags seem to have been spread
upon the sands at the periodical overflow
of the Nile, and received deposit OF
the fine earth that has washed down
from the mountrins of Abyssinia. This
adds to the weight, but Yankees will
mot be sold twice in this IN inner. While
the modern rags are mostly cotton and
8 OF a blue color, the wrappin2s of old
Sesostris and his friends are Inch. and
of dirty white or yellow.
L had some curiosity to know how
much paper WAS consumed by these va
rious journals. Tie Neu York Leda r
: Is printed on superb thick and smooth
paper, and Richards Il Easkins mill
turns out for Bonner 200 reams per
week-each ream weighing tifty-two
pounds. 1t must be remembered, how
ever, that this is only portion of the
immense weekly edition of a Jour al
which has depended So much on adver-
tislns to extend its circulation. The
same mill manufactures daily a5out 1870
reams for the Boston Herald; but i'll the
case OF this journal there are but twenty
three pounds to the ream The Boston
Journal (daily, weekly. &c. depends
upon the Great Fails Company, of Gardi-
ner, for It's supply, and 1t is gratifyin.
tact that this newspaper. by diligence
and attention to its business has increas-
ed Its circulation to great extent.
Within ashor, time its augmentation has
been more than thirty per cent. ind
that from May IL to June II, 237A
reams* Of paper, of forty pounds to the
ream, were issued from the last nance
mill for the Boston Journal, daily. semi.
weekly. &c., which is equivalent te
eishty-tour reams per diem. The Go wi.
er is printed paper forty-seven pounds
20 the ream, manufactured at the same
mill.
When l saw the huge stacks ofpapcr
did not ruminate and moralize as
ought to have done, on the vast amour,
OF good or evil which these winged mes
: sensers were capable Of doing, but nv
memory reverted to a tact Of which
become co5nizant in Lowell last year
and which illustrates the grand scale Of
advertising carried on BY some wide awake
men IN our country, to their ultimate
immense advantage. Who has not seer
in every paper OF the Union, the adver.
tlsemehts OF Ayers Cherry PICTORIAL,
; Ayers Cathartic Pills. and recently
Ayers Sarsaparila.' Missionary Board:
and Tract Societies establish presses tc
, publish truth for men. The Christian
, philanthropist estimates the world b,
souls. Now the enterprising advertiser
whose medicines purge Emperor of Sian
check the bad cough of the rebel chic
, of China. and purify the bad blood o
, the nations, estimates the world as peo.
pied ny 50 many stomachs, a d he ha.
r the wit to know it. And it paws. Las
year he spent more $50 900 (siriu thou
sanl d0fIars) in news paper advertise
ments, and additional sums for almanacs
pamphlets. &c. His cash receipts-I
, would not be safe for me to declare
only kaoW (ard it is regular conse.
, quence) that they were enormous.
will, however, astonish some to lear,
S that 25Oo newspapers in the Unite,
f States and the CAnadas advertise, eithe
daily, semi-weekly those patent medi
cines."
*Fhere are 4s0 sheets in rsam The weigh
varies according to the size Of the paper and tn
D thickness OF the cheet.-Boston J,vnaI.