The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-09-23
WHAT REeaMes Of fHiNGs.

WkAt becomes tf the e11rl1iOtts Quantity
Of objects, natural and artificial, Which are
daily, weekly; monthly, annually, arid per-
ennially produced and sent forth into the
world2
What bccomes-to plunge in melios IT'S
of all the books? These come out in logions
season after season, representing, in addition
to an enormous amount of labor Of different
kinds, a considerable accumulation of actual
material of mill board, OF cloth, of.leathcr
What becomes of all this matter? What sort
of proportion do the number Of books that are
sold bear to those that are brought
out? And again, of those that are sold
what becomes of them? Those that we see on
the shelves of libraries, or even lying about
upon tables and chiffonniers, are but a small
percentage of the number continually issu-
ING from the press. What becomes of the
thousand-page novels which appear in great
numbers, in the course of every season.
How does it happen that our rooms are not
entirely surrounded with full book-shelves,
or that there exists in any apartment, hall OF
passage, any vacant portion OF that space I'M
occupied by books on which to put things
down? Hundreds of thousands Of volumes
are oast upon the world every year, and have
been since one is afraid to say when where
are they all at this present writng9 The
booksellers shops furnish an account of some,
the librarians of others, and some the trunk
makers and the butter-men know about; but
the rest-where are they?
IN these days. as in all the days that have
preceded these days, ali anrts at articles Of
wearing apparel become the mode, are worn
/ for a short time by every body, and are then
by everybody cast off and rejected, What is
the destiny of these rejected articles? When
steel petticoats disappear, what becomes Of
thom9 When the ordinary hat worn by Eng
lishmen is REDUCED 10 q Hight 81 from IN 70
six and q half INCHES, what becomes Of tAc
hats seypn and eight inches high, Of which
the matters shops we've flllq few months ago
Where are the Wellington boots, Of which The
/ WHARF are the steel chatelains which ladies
used to carry at their girdles? Where ape the
Malacca canes of cur youths Even the foot
men have discarded their use we know; but
what has become of them? They must be
somewhere, in some form. Where? And in
what form?
Numbers of people have entirely bewilder-
ed and stupefted themselves in endeavQrs tN
arrive at some rational conclusion on the SUB
iect of pins. The statistical accounts of the
number of pins turned out annually at Brm-
ingham and Sheffield alone would lead one
to expect that the earth itself would present
the appearance of one vast pincushon
Where are those pins of which the yearly
! fabrication is on so vast a scale9 Pins are
not consumed as an article of diet. Pins do
not evaporato. Pins must be somewhere.
| All the pins which have been made since
civilization set IN must be in existence in some
shape or other; we ought to see nothing else.
| look in what direction we might but pills,
This island, not to NEEDLE with other coun-
tries, ought to be knee-deep with pins.
! Reader, how many pins are imported intoyuur
own house within the year, Do you know
what becomes Of those pins? There are a few
in your wife's piIcHshiQn, and one may occa-
sionally be seen cleaning in the housen.liif' s
| waistband; but where are the reSt9 ii is
perfectly astounding how seldom one encoun-
ters a pin ''on the loose Now and then,
by rare chance, as when 4 carpet is taken up,
you may catch glimpse offs pin lying in a
crevice but even this is an uncommon 0ccltr-
renee, and not to be counted, You often
want a pin, and take trouble to get u pin
Where are all the pins that ought to be al
ways in attendance everywhere?
| What can possibly become Of all the steel
pens, of which myrads are continually turn
ed loose upon the world? Each individual
PEN does not last for very long time. Left
unwiped, rs they generally are, steel pens
do we do with them? We take them out of
leave the old pens lying about in the pcntrays
of our desks, or whore not. They are aWk-
ward things to get rid of, and mostly lie
about uncared for. Still the pens like the
pins, do at least disappear Whittier? The
earth is not prckly with steel pens. 1t ought
to be; why isn't it. All the Year Round.