The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-14
Minor Items of Supplies.


The postal service is a glutton for rub
Der hands Four thousand four hundred
and twenty-five gross of rubber bands of
variou, sizes are asked for OF the larger
sizes OF the smaller bands g. coo hounds
are wanted. A small item Of rubber goods
Is 400 pounds of tcyel erasers and COM
bined pencil ard ink erasarS. An order Of
p .i25 gross IL steel pens indicates that the
employee Ot the postal service do vast
amount ni Wrl-iTg specially when we re-
mcnl,r tEar t-ls specification is supple
Merted ty TIE follow sing 500 gross OF
pcnhcidtrS. -55 dozen Ci Jcaholders. $50
dozen oi IerEo!durs. 1890 dozen OF black
lead pencils. LEO dozen 81 Col0Ted pencils.
20 dozen of automatic coior,d pencils. 200
boxes Of lead Tor automatic colorud pencils
COO dozen Of inGelillc automatic PENCILS.
5000 boxes Of lead tor the same and 500
dozen Of colorcd pencils of another sort.
or inks and mucilage Uncle Sans
postal boys use enormous quantities. as
witness the following items l.2IO dozen
Of black inks re dozen of carmine inks.
200 dozen quarts Of muciage. best quality.
200 gallons Of blue mucilage. To be put ND
III I'D or 20 gallon vessels The list of glass
goods and steel articles Is formidable
enough 70 suit even the contractors. Ink.
stands are wanted 10 the number of 800
dozen. and an equal number of steel erasers
are asked for. Carbon paper hektograph
paper rubber stamps and stamp pads, fac
SMILES OF signatures, press copy books and
such things are listed by the carload.
Ihlrty-ilve thousand reams of wrapping
paper weighing 2S pounds To the ream is
one item, ], 400, zoe pounds of Irvine is an
other 5000 letter balances and 1000 let
Ter scales are In the schedules. as well as
90 groccrs scales and 100 larger ones The
specifications for postmarking and rating
stamps run up TO the scores of thousands
ana the amount of canceling ink needed
Tor the simple purpose of spelling the nice
stamps which we put on our letters is
2O,OOO pounds. These figures have greatly
Impressed our foreign visitors
A Fast TaIker.
In the house of representatives we have
a new lightning talker His name il
James Hamilton Lewis, one Of the new
men from the state of Washington. Mr.
LOWS has already made his mark in the
mouse 1t was he who offered the resolu.
tlon lnstructing Speaker Reed 10 appoint
the committees of the house He made n
speech In support of this resolution. and.
Whlle II dld not have any appreciable effect
upon the votes of his fellow members. IT.
ana make the official stenographers move
thcir pencils faster than they had ever
moved them before Mr. Lewis talked mt
The rate OF about 275 words a minute for
10 minutes, which constitutes record In
the house Until Mr.. Lewis made his
ADVENT the record for fast talking was
hCId 10y Mr. johnson of Indiana. The
Washington member speaks with great
ease. lhe words do not come from his
mouth IN torrent but they slide out one
after the other as II they were creased
! hey are clearly spoken too though they
follow with stupendous speed one upon
the Others heels IL Is said Mr. Lewis
has often while making speeches In court
reached speed OF over 500 words a min
ute There are few stenographers that
can keep up with him AT this rate
speaker Reed and Jerry Simpson like
TO get In shots az one another One day
while the house was i'm considerable dis.
order Jerry Thought 10 score point by
calling the speakers attention TO the hub.
oub that was going on Standing In the
middle aisle, he exclaimed
Mr. Speaker, let us have order. Z"
AS soon as gentlemen standing in the
aisles have taken their Seats" responded
the speaker. the chair will endeavor 60
restore order in the house. "
Then the laugh was on Jerry. He
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