St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-02-15
eARNUM'S ~sILL-sTckeRs.
They Surprise the EnGlishmen by q
Rapldity Of Their Work.

They Surprise the EnGlishmen by the
Rapldity Of Their Work..
Opposite to this house is q boarding
thirteen fee high by over one hundred
feet long, and in q few minutes was to
e q feat in bill-pOsting such IS seems
hardly credible, o that I sit calmly
down to write Of it. A wagon having
driven up. five men got out Of it; n I
recognized as Mart Ready, Barnum's
boss poster. two were Americans in
their neat duck Overalls, and two were
English bill-sticker, whose appearance
] would rather not describe. In two
minutes after their arrival the duck
overalled men had out their tin cans
full of paste and their eigh~t-foOt-lOng
poles with brushes at the end. and were
hard at it covering the boarding with
paste from top to bottom, from end
to end. The Englishmen stood by with
something like sneers on their faces, As
who should say: ''well, there amt
much in that; we can cover . boarding
with paste. too" Another minute pass
ed. and Ready began handing out some
carefully folded posters. The English
mems faces relaxed q little, as who
should say: ''What are they goin' to do
now?!' and they began to whisper to-
gether.
folded posters, gave it q shake. ran the
brush end of the long poles under it,
raised it, gave a sweep and another
sweep, and there on the boarding vas .
sixtecn-sheet poster, containing . fac
similc of an open letter from =. T. Ear-
mum, headed MY Greatest Venture"
Then followed a twelve-sheet poster
portrait of Barnum, a fOrty-eight sheet
depicting the show tents as they travel
in America, q twenty-four sheet picture
Of Jumbo. a forty-eight-sheet repre-
sentation Of the gallery of human freaks
Of nature, q thirty-six-sheet portrait OF
the fair Indian snake charmer from the
BOwery. New York, q forty-eight-shect
picture OF the menagerie, . thirty-six-
sheet portrait of the Mexican rider, a
forty-eight-sheet representation Of the
elephants performing, a twenty-f"ur-
sheet picture Of the clowns, and . twen-
ty-four-sheet portrait of Miss Clara
OBrien, the Roman k~nife-thrower. All
lOUK tIc SOpS anu VIC uOeeOasio W tuC
pictures 'streamers" were pasted. The
most remarkable fact, however, was
that every one of these huge posters
was slung up into position whole-they
had been pasted together before start
ing. The entire looks feet was covered
in exactly fourteen minutes and thirty
seconds. There! That Is something
like bill-sticking. You ought to have
seen the faces of those Englishmen.
They were a study for Dickens. OF
course . crowd gathered. and, as the
omnibuses stop at the Cedars. you may
uess there was some quaint remarks
rom the drivers and conductora-PaIl
Mall Gazette.
Although the production Of lead
pipe has commonly been regarded Of
quite modern origin. there appears to be
evidence that the Romans were &C.
quainted with the article. without. how
ever, possessing the appliances for fab
ricating any thing of largo dimensions
or sufficiently strong to Withstand pres
sure from the fountain head. In the
Cherchel Museum is . piece Of lead pip
ing made by rolling . sheet of metal,
turning tho edges over and then running
molten lead along the joints.
An Albino. Pa, DOE without .