South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-07-04
Beautiful Pictures For Ill.

TIE Great Art Publishing House of Georg G
Stinson h Co, OF Por3isnd, Maine, moves stead
ny on the even tsnor o; iis way, sppareuty o OF
feeling the dull times. During the rear 1915
they sold over Four Million pictures OF all de-
sc:ipuons. They publish every description Of
hne pictures, and the prices range from ten
cts. upwards TO twenty dollars per copy Their
correspondence for this large business Is im-
mense-tbey receive, on an average, over one
thousand letters per day. MessIs. Stiuson d
Co., publish only the better class OF pictures
audit 10 weu known that an ything coming from
this reliable house is Of standard merit We
have just received copies of fou. very fne steal
engravings, which they have just brought out.
The plates were engraved in LONDON, at an ex.
pense OF four thousand pounds sterling. or
twenty thousand dollars, to which great sum
must be adIed the customs duty OF twenty Fl ve
| per cent on account OF their being impor ted
into the United States. These engravings are
after paintings or grea, modern masters OF art.
and The artists who engraved the plates stand
| in the front rank VI the. worlds renowned en-.
gravers
IL is believed, and generally conceded, that
these enRraviuRs make up the finest and most
elegant set OF works az high art ever brought
out by American publishers. This enterprisinp
hrm, though many years in the Art Publishing
business, have not grown old and nnprogress.
ive ba, on the other hand make Improvement
and progress year by year, giving The people
better and better pictures for the same or less
money. Iney may, we feel sure, fairly claim to
stand at the head of the Art tublishinQ bust.
ness In America. w can. only understand the
colossal proportions their trade has assumed by
remembering that this is great aud mighty
nation OF nearly fifty million people We can
not better illustrate the magnitude o. their bust
ness tnan 10 state the amount OF money paid by
them Tor postage stamps during the years 1876.
1877, and 1873 We have the figures direct
from tho hrm, or we should think there was
some error in 1876, they paid Tor postage S33,-
100 s2. n 1877 they paid for postage, S3z,-
2GS 76. In 1878 the amount OF money that they
paid for postage stamps was simply enormous
= little over $50, 900 90. Stinson 4 Co Stand
among the largest and most judicious advcrtis.
eis 10 The country, ana a short time since paid
IN single day $4,000 90 in cash on n contract
for Advertising. They employ agents every.
where througEput The United States and Domin-
ION OF Canada for the sale OF their pictures by
snbserption-we call attention 10 their ad YER
tlsea!ent Tor agents ia another column Those
who need pleasant, profitable work SHOULD cor.
respond with them.
Besides paying the large amounts Of postage
stated above, their express md freight oils are
enUrmotS-Unly snail otders are sent h. mail
the larger being sent bY express and freight -
American houes should be made beautiful hy
refined works of art, and prices for rsally me-,
toriOus pictures ARE now 60 low that there can
be no exct Sc for the walls tu repnin gloomy
unadorusd and cncerless. American n omes
should be made beautiful, and the tendency OF
this will be 10 make more retIned and beau tiful
the lives OF al. dwellers Ikereln. lJuue 90.