The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-08-24
CHE Aemorrat- Sta.
Why Some People Have

to this fact ; a great MANI pyr'n'anly,
nowadays read newspapers people
rom me press, without lh;nLinlesh
knowing that the ink NOM Or
contains a quantity III lNem
Well" the reader may saw "s nea
has this to do with NV what
Very much, | reply. Bv eyes"
freshly printed sheets very |I mian.ss
quantities Of the ink Offsets s", mute
The ends of The fingers nor upon
not enough to soil Them fnaps
enough to o. deposit the arse nut
thereon. Then, il there Is : sI nea
Gle OF itching of the eyeIidip parry
persons SO affected almost inD, Ile
Sarily rub their eyes with lbe 'iI.
OF their fingers Z; and, as lhe sr. Ups
is a poison, the result is dissaSe eOlc
the eyes ensues more or less, NoU VI
my advice is that people NoT,
their hands after handIino sasG
papers,or,if not convenient; = Suen
then keep their fingers carepo, so
away from their eyes.-Cor H"my,
Journal of HEALTH. n""s
Our attention having been c.ll.s
to the above by a observing tr;a"s
we Immediately decided lo raN.i1,'
it in the columns of the GasetRe J"
order that the printing fraterni,U ~
might be advised at once as 10 ny
terrible risk which they run '% IL
handling freshly printed sheet.
We know that this informaton
will have the effect of cansino
demand for increase OF salary fran
pressmen throughout the enlira
country, as 1t would seem that lhai,
vocation could be classed among
the ''eXtra hazardous" and %eoualIS
as dangerous as the manufacture Of
gunpowder or dynamite.
Desiring TO know the exact ev.
tent to which arsenic is used in the
manufacture of printing ink We
wrote a prominent ink manufacla.
rer, and in reply he SAID that he
was surprised that we should he
ignorant of the fact that printius
ink contained arsenic. '.WhyS
says he, "you would be astonisied
to know what a vast Suantity of il
is consumed in our business. We
buy it by the carload and store il
In a building similar to the maga.
zines used by gunpowder manu-.
factTrers. Owing to its deadly
character, the employees in our
establishment, whose duty is TO
handle 1t and prepare it for intro.
ductiOn into the inks, demand
double the salaries paid TO other
workmen and this is what makes
the INK so expensive that we ran
only give a discount of thirty per
cent. to our customer and make
his head pressman a present Of
suit OF clothes or a set Of furniture
once a month"
''Ifit were not for the fact that
We had TO use arsenic i'll the manu-
facture we could double the dis.
count to the customer, and pay The
rent and all the grocery bills for
pressmen in every establishment
in the country, in addition to The
suit of clothes once a month, or il
by any means We could dispense
with the privilege of doing these
favorS for pressmen we could aiIOrd
to furnish all The printers with ink
free, provided they returned The
cans without the labels being soil.
ed, as we count everything as
profit outside the expense Of pre-
vidlng the arsenic and the salaries
paid to employees for handling
same and what we pay for cans and
the printing of the labels"
W. are very glad indeed to as
certain these facts concerning The
use of arsenic in printing inks, for
when it becomes generally known
it will have a tendency to place
certain members of the printing
fraternity IN a different position
before the public from that when
they now occupy. For a great
many years PRIMERS, and morning
compOsitOrs especially, have zen
looked upon as a dis5ipaied Sc.
of men on account of the bloa'ea
and blear-eyed expression OF theIr
countenances. 1t would seem from
the above that these poor suffering
mortals have been misjudged' anu
the condition of their eyes was nO'
caused by drink as the public gen,
orally have believed, but, as the
compositors procure a copy Oh unS
paper fresh from the press ana
while readipg same, being fallgueu
and sleep on account OF 'neii
night work rubbed their eyes anu
thus carried the arsenic 10 tnem
and gave them the infiamed az
pearance which has been SO hO'F
ceable.
Our poor powers of e~xpressll%6s s
will not enable us to convey ~" ~
pleasure we feel at the removal
this SANDER from the printing Onsc
and our gratitude to our ]s SIe9sSrS
friend for its dlscovrry.-SoH'""'
Trade Gazette.
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