South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-07-18
Beautiful Pictures For HI.

TnE Great Art Publishing House of George
Stinson Co, Of Portland, Maine, moves stead
lily on the even tenor os j,s way, apparently OF
feeling the dull times. During the year 1879
they sold over Four Million pe,sres OF all de-
sc.iptious. They pnblish every description OF
fine pietnres, and the prices rang. from, ten
cts. upwards TO twenty dollars per copy. Their
correspondence for this large business IL lrn-
mense-they receive, on average, over one
thousand letters per day. Sesus. Stinson &
Co., publish only the setter class Of pictures
and il is well known that any thing coming from
this reliable house IS Of standard merit. We
have just received copies OF fou: very fine steel
engravipgs, which they have just brought out.
The plates were engraved in Lospos, at an ex-
pense OF four thousand pounds sterling or
twenty thousand dollars, To which great SUN
must be added the customs duty of twenty FIVE
per cent account Of their being imporied
into the United Ststee. These engrayings are
after paintings sy great modern masters OF art,
and the artists who engraved the plates stand
IN the front rank Of the worlds renowned ca
grayers.
u is believed and generally conceded tha,
these engraviugs make up the huest and Irps,
elegant set OF works " high art ever brought
out by American publishers. This en,erprising
hrm, though many years in the Art Publishing
bus iness, have not grown old and uuprogress-
i've, but on the other hand make Improvement
and progress year by year, giving the people
better aud better pictures for the same or less
ihey We tcel sure, ialrly claim 20
s,and at the head Of the Art Publishing BUSH
hess in America. We can only understand the
colossal proportions their trade has assumed BIZ
remembering that this I, great and mighty
nation OF nearly fifty million people. We can
not better illustrate the magnitude o. their busi-
ness than to state ihe amount Of money paid by
them for postage stamps during the years 1876,
1871, aud ,e.e. We have the figures direct
from thu firm, or we should think there was
some error. In 1876, they paid for postage S33-
lo2 %. In 1877 they paid for postage SAL
2GS 10 In 1873 the amount Of money that they
paid for postage stamps WAS simply enOi nous
among the largest and mes, judicious advertis-
els ia the country. and short time since paid
in single day $4,000 co in cash on IA contract
for advertising. They employ agents every.
where throughout the United States snd Domin-
ION Of Canada for the sale OF their pictures by
subscripiion-we call attention 10 their adYer-
hsement for agents in another column. Those
who need pleasant, profitable work, should cor
respond with them.
Besides paying the large amounts OF postage
stated above, their express and freight bills are
euormous-Only small orders are sent by mail
the larger being sent by express and freight -
American homes should be made beautiful hy
refined works Of art, and prices for really meli-
iorious pictures are now so low that there can
be no exci Sc for the walls 10 remain gloomy
unadorned and checrless. American homes
should be made besntifnl, aud the tendency of
this will be to make more re fined and beautiful
the lives Of all jewellers IhereIa. Hume 20.