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purpose, and every sheet of it is
counted. In fact, from the time the
pape enters the press until it e energes
q sheet of stamps in the storage rooms
it passes through fourteen divisions,
every one of which registers the sheet,
and these must tally as to totals at the
close of the day before an employe is
permitted to leave the building.
Every time the pressman runs a
plate through his machine he removes
it and5reinks it. Upon this largely
depends the perfection of the impress
sion After mixing the plate he rubs
the surplus ink from the surface with
a brush. Then he passes his hands
over: a cake of chalk and rubs the plate
briskly with his bare palms. This
cleans the exposed parts of the plate
thoroughly and leaves the ink in the
lineswhich are to convey the impress
sionsto the paper. The printer soon
becomes mass of ink from his hands
to his elbows, and sooner or later COM
municates it to his face, as we'll as
daubing it over his apron. A carmine
colofed ink is used in printing the two
cent stamps, and the pressroom has a
decidedly sanguinary appearance. The
young lady assistants average about
,$1.25 day, while the pressmen run
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Warren, ILL.,, the water supply is dis
tributed according to the Engineering
News, froma water tower of masonry
1O2 feet high from the water table to
the bottom of the tank. The masonry
.is;feunded on solid rock about twelve
or thirteen feet below the water table.
At the level:of the water table the
walls are four feet thick, and from this
they decrease with u uniform taper to
a thickness of two feet at the top. The
masonry is of limestone laid in cement
mortar. The tank is made of red
Louisiana cypress and is twenty-fou
feet high and twenty-one feet in dia-
meter, with n capacity of 1000 gallons.
The standpipe which supplies the
water to the mains is ten inches in
diameter and is connected with the
bottom of the tank with an expansion
joint and balance float valve. This
valve automatically shuts off the water
when the tank is full.
Water is pumped to the tower from
deep well located in the brick power
house about sixty feet away. This
we'll is about 800 feet deep. The
water is lifted from the we'll to the top
of the tower without rehandling.
Eventually the water will be discharged
into a reservoir, where it will be
handled by another pump for fire
service, but in the meantime very
fair pressure is had direct from the
tank, which is elevated some forty OF
fifty feekaboye the larger part of the
town,
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uouses without Chimneys.

It is curious, though true, that OF all
the houses, dwellings, stores, hotels
and other buildings that dot the ISL
and of Key West, Fla, from one shore
to the other, not one of them has a
chimney or anything that will answer
the purpose of chimney. Handsome
residences and lowly novels are alike
in this respect, and from an eminence
gazing out over acres of roofs on all I
sides one is struck with the want OF
something to complete the symmetry
of the picture. Wood and coal or fuel
of any kind are unknown quantities,
as the tropical atmosphere furnishes
all the heat required, and for cooking
purposes sticks of carbon are used,
which are sold by peddlers, who hawk
their wares about the streets.-Atlan'
to Constitution.
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BILLIONS OF STAMPS.
UNCLE SAM PRINTS AN ENORMOUS
NUMBER EACH YEAR.
All'Kinds and colors, From the Pink Two

All Kinds and Colors, From the Pink Two
Center to the Lordly One Hundred
Dollar Stamp-How They Are Turned
Out by the Washington Bureau.
Uncle Sam makes and issues in the
course of q year postage and other
stamps to the number of more than
four billions. The exact number for
the last year of which record is OBJ
tainable, says the New York World,
was 4, 243, ,2S9,261. It is hard for the
human mind to realize the magnitude
of sum as great as four billions. A
better idea, probably, can be obtained
of the size of the stamp output for a
year by the statement that if they were
pasted together, end for end, the strip
thus obtained would encircle the earth
seven times around at the equator.
There were all sorts and conditions
of stamps in this aggregate of four bill
lions. There were postage stamps,
from the humble little one-center and
the familiar pink two-center that every
one sees to ssthe lordly one hundred
dollar stamp that lives an exclusive
life and never shows itself to the vul-
gar herd. The latter is called peri
odical stamp. 1t is sold to the pub
fishers of periodicals, who present it
to the postmaster with so many pounds
of mail matter, and the stamp is then
cancelled and kept in q book. Over
ten thousand of these were pointed last
year.
There were about one hundred mil
lion of the long green beer stamps used
in the internal revenue service, that
you see the barkeeper remove from
the bunghole when he taps fresh keg.
There were about four hundred mil
lion of the little green stamps that seal
the end of cigarette box. There were
more than half billion of tobacco
strip stamps, with countless millions
of other kinds.
The everyday two-cent stamp, with
its cheerful pink color and mucilaginous
back, was printed to the number of q
little more than two billions. If the
magnitude of this number is difficult
to grasp, it is easy enough to measure
q two-cent stamp and figure for ones
self how many thousand miles those
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Germany now has electric light in
over 1000 postal cars, and Austria IS
about to adopt the same system.
A Frenchman has patented device
whereby passengers may be landed in
safety from railway trains running at
full speed.
Coal tar, when used for dyes, yields
sixteen shades of blue, the same NUM-
Der of yeIlov, tints, twelve Of orange,
nine of violet, and numerous other
colors and shades.
A method of transporting grain
through iron pipes, by means OF sue
ton, from distant farms to the sea-
board, has been devised by an inven-
tor in Orlando, Fla.
7tThere are snails actually resembling
thorns. This species remained for
long time undiscovered. until close
observer saw one of these thorns walk
ing around the branch.
The American University, at Wash
ington, is celebrating the completion
of the largest rejecting telescope lens
in the world. 1t is wholly American
work, and the first of the kind cast III
this country.
A German medical paper has re-
ceived report from South Africa,
saying that experiments have proved
that if cattle are inoculated in time
with Koch's serum, ninety to ninety
seven per cent. Of the animals can be
saved from the plague.
Scarlet seems to be the color most
conspicuous in bright sunshine, and
scarlet flowers are conmonest IN dry
and sunny climates, where their color
gives them an advantage in their struS-
cle with other flowers for the atten-
tions of butterflies and other pollen
bearers.
A microscopic examination of moth
er of pearl shows the shell to be made
up of very fine lines so closely put to-
gether that the white light is broken
up into its prismatic colors, and we get
the so-called ''play of colors. Taking
q careful cast of such she'll the wax
cast will yield the same prismatic Ell
fects.
A new electric invention is simple
device by which an electrical current
of high potential can be uniformiy y de-
creased in volume or strength, or both
at the will of the operator. The IN
strument or apparatus is in the nature
of rheostat, and can be used wher
, ever q graded current is deslrcd.-
2 Electricity.
y An eminent physician states that ty
!, phoid fever can be washed out of tn
: system by water. He gives his pm
q tients what would amount to eight o
n ten ounces an hour of sterliZed water
J. In cases of cholera, where the system
II secrets q large amount Of fluid, enol
l. nous quantities of hot water arc Q
" great benefit.
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Quinine and other fe-
yer medicines take from 5
to 10 days to cure fever.
Johnson'S Chill and Fever
Tonic cures i'm ONE DAY.
NEW CAVE IN INDIANA.
Exploring Party Has Gone More Than q
Mile Into A.

Exploring Party Has Gone More Than a
Mile Into II.
From New Middleton, Harrison Co.,
Ind, comes the story of new cave Of
wonderful beauty which has just been
discovered. The first explorers re-
port that they could hear voices in the
cave, but were unable to locate the
direction from which they came, and
this story has revived the tradition
that pigmies once inhabited the Mar
engo cave, about twenty miles dis
tant.
Tha country under which the cave
lies is full of basin-like depressions, as
if the land had sunk, but immense
forest trees growing in these basins
show that the terrestrial disturbance
took place IL long time ago. Men
clearing away fallen tree on the
farm of Henry Fleiss, near New Mid
dleton, discovered the new cave en-
trance at the foot of low hill. A
current of air came from the cavern,
. and this suggested to them that there
was probably water in it, but m ex-
ploration of the first apartment Of the
cave showed it to be perfectly dry,
with brisk current of air flowing
through it. In one side was an open
ing about two feet wide. Passing
. through this the exploring party
found themselves at the head of
fight of thirty-two we'll worn steps,
which had the appearance of having
been cut by man. From this room q
second flight of thirty-two steps led
to o still lower level. These steps
were so worn as to be almost perpen-
dicular, and the descent had to be
made with the aid of rope:
The exploring party travelled on
descending grade of about fifty de.
grees for more than a mile, when they
came to an abrupt precipice. Up
to this point the cavern had been as
dry as an ordinary cellar, but at the
top of the precipice noise like the
roaring of a cateract could be heard.
Plummets were let down over the pre-
cipice at various points, and the bot
tom was found to be forty feet down.
The ceiling was low at this point, but
there was room enough to rig tackle,
so the party descended. On this next
level the cave was found to widen and
played beautiful stalactites, which re-
fected the colors of the rainbow as
they glowed in the light of the torches.
Every word uttered was re-echoed
many times. A pretty little stream
ran through the stalagmites with
faint ripple. A water snake, several
kinds of eyeless fish and toad were
the only life found. :;
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JohnsOn's Chill and Fe-
yer Tonic is a ONE-DAY
Gre. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of Fever i'm
n Hours.
n Hours.
A CHANGE.


"My wife is very considerate OF
ma y said the young married man.
"She was afraid my rest was being in
terrupted too much, and last week she
bought burglar alarm"
"Does it make difference"
eyes. Instead of getting up to see
whether there are burglars in the house
I get up to see whether the alarm Is
SET"
not PRACTICALLY APPLIED.
Farmer Cloyertop-Wot did that
there boy O. yourn learn at college!
Farmer Hayrick-Well, he learned
Greek an Latin an football an fencin
an lot O. things. o
Farmer Clovertop-Fencin', hey :!
Wall, I don't see as how your fences
looks any better nor mine.
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Wales Licensed to Give Pills

(: The Prince of Wales, at the last
meeting of the Royal College of PLY.
sicians, having been solemnly elected
a member of that august body, from
now on has the right to commence
medical practice in the United King
dom without any interference on the
part of the authorities. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that England's future
king understands little or nothing
aboutmedicine, and that his doctorship
of medicine rs we'll as his brevat as
physician is only of an honorary char
acter.-Chicago Record.
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two billions would stretch if pasted end

TWO DllllOQS WOulu SlIetCu IL PaoVS" NAAN'
to end.
All of the stamps used by the United
States are printed at Washington in
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, the same institution that turns
out the paper money of the Govern
ment. Formerly they were made by
the bank note companies in New York,
but in 1893 Uncle Sam concluded that
as he was going into the printing
business very extensively at his capital
he might as we'll save the profits on
the stamp making. The Bureau makes
the plates from which the stamps are
printed, does the press work and
manufactures the mucilage. Only the
paper and the ink are purchased in
open market. This preparation of the
mucilage is an art in itself, and is con-
Quoted upon purely hygienic prln-
ciples, for the benefit of the several
billions of people who annually lick
postage stamps.
The operation of the manufacture OF
postage stamps through the several
branches is an exceedingly interesting
one to follow. A small army of men
and young women, skilled artisans, are
employed in the work, and the great
red brick building on the banks of the
Potomac under the shadow of the
Washington monument is busy bee
hive for eight hours in the day.
The first step in the manufacture OF
postage and revenue stamps IS the
making of the plates from which the5
are to be printed. The plate for the
ordinary two-cent stamp of everyday
use is sheet of steel twenty.one
inches by about thirteen inches. The
engraver uses sheet of soft steelupo
which he engraves the design of fou'
hundred stamps.
The custody of these plates, together
with others, is confded to one man
Every afternoon the plates must b.
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accounted for and locked in vault.
Until the last plate is in no employe
of the division is allowed to leave the
building.
The plate now being finished, it is
sent to the pressroom. Some OF the
stamps are printed upon hand presses
and others upon revolving steam
presses. The day visited the Bureau
the hand pressmen were working upon
beer stamps. There were twenty OF
these upon sheet, and the printer and
his assistant were enabled to turn out
from 700 to 500 sheets day. The
pressman's assistant is Away young
girl, as q woman's deft touch is re-
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women are paid from $1.5O to 81 per

OGy.
When the perfect sheets are thus as-
sorted and counted, they pass to the
storage vault, freproof and alright
structure. The Bureau keeps sto elk
Of about six hundred million stamps
on hand constantly. They are fur
nished to the Postofice Department at
the rate of about twelve millions day,
upon requisition by the Third Assist
ant Postmaster General. A steel
wagon, with padlocked doors and ac-
oompanied by guard of armed men,
conveys the stamps to the Postofice
Department.. This wagon is also used
to transport currency and bank notes
to the Treasury Department, and goes
trundling along the street with mill
ions of money inside of it.
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80 A Woman Colonel.

Miss Lewis Butt is colonel on the
staff of Governor Atkinson, of Georgia,
There is only one other woman colonel
in the United States, and that is Col
onel Nellie Ely, of Tennessee. Dur
ing the Civil War the dashing Confed-
crate cavalry leader appointed more
than one fair Virginian aide-de-camp
on his staff, and it is recorded that the
prettiest of them, Fairfax girl, re-
paid Stuart by marrying q Union OIL
cer.-New York Journal.
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practical commercial service of the
civilized American; heretofore the Eski-
mo dog has been used in all expedi-
tions through the Klondike country.
That the reindeer possesses .tremend-
GUS advantages over the Eskimo dog
is illustrated in the matter of their re-
spective food. That of the dog must
be carried, while the reindeer paws the
snow from the roots on which he sub
sists.-New York World.
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Willing to Do Her Best.

Several years ago when the famous
old siren whistle was blown so fire.
quently at the river mouth-no, not by
the river mouth-a certain East End
family owned cow. She was just an
ordinary COW in all respects, says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, save one. The
siren whistle had a remarkable effect
upon her. Every blessed time the
whistle started in to wall and moan
that COW started up. vigorous series,
of moos. And the most curious fea-
ture about it was that the cows vocal
,afSs5utrsn1aapuaad, down, tbes scale sin a.
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chattcl Slavery in Missouri.

According to an old law in st. Louis,
man may be sold at auction to the
highest bidder for n term OF SIX
months service for deserting his wife
and failing to support her. The law
is to be applied in the case of a con.
firmed loafer, and an announcement OF
his sale is posted on the front door OF
the City Court House.-Chicago Jour-
nol
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PRINCE OF PIGEONS.
He Few 1000 Miles in Seventy-fve Hours
md Holds the Worlds Record.

Pedro, the great homing pigeon
which broke the worlds record for
1000 miles in his swift journey in the
mir from New Orleans to Mishawaka,
Ind, is the pride of the Mishawaka
Homing Club. Pedro's superb race
was made in seyenty-fve hours total,
or less than fifty hours of actual fly
ing. Carrier pigeons never work after
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dark. Pedro is pretty red pigeon,
is three years old, and is owned by
Secretary Tallens, OF the club. Pedro
is brother of Lulu, the winner OF
the 5OO-mile race in Mississippi. Both
are imported birds. When Pedro ar
rived Mt Mishawaka he flew straight to
his loft, seeming none the worse for
the journey.
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A COUNTESS CREATES A STIR.
She Declares That Dancing Has DeGen'
Grated Into q Gracelcss Romp.

The Countess of Ancaster, who has
created great stir in the fashionable
world of London by her declaration
that dancing has degenerated into a
graceless romp, is the wife OF Lord
Willoughby de Eresby, the Baron OF
Ayeland. The Countess daughter,
Evelyn Clementina, is married to Ma
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-13
COUNTESS OF ANCAsTER.

ior-General Sir Henry Ewart, the
Queens equerry. This fact and the
very high social position of the Coun-
tess herself, give more than ordinary
importance to her opinions upon mat
ters concerning society, and dancing
is certainly one of these.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-13

The rush to the Klondike has been
the means of establishing novel
transportation line at Circle City,
Alaska. Twenty sturdy bucks have
been selected from the United States
Government reindeer herd at Teller's
Station and are now on their way to
the mining districts. This is the first
effort to press the reindeer into the
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THE LITTLE ONE AWAY.

World be-colder skies in May;
Summer in to me:
asnging could reach the that
wish the ringing could ring darling home!
Sit here sunshine, solemn-lke, and see
peeping in where used to
window, with the blossoms and the lights
mornings, kissed her sweet good nights
Sit here n darkness, winds the naples stir,
the Silence singing sad, song Of her.
lilies dream of her, with her the
shine like and light homo
World what used to be-skies cold and
Summer The little away!
birds could reach the
Wish the glad bells ringing could ring darling home!
F. L. Stanton, Atlanta
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A HIGH WATER TOWER.
70 102 Feet High and Has n Capacity OF
1000 Gallons.

The towns of the plain districts are
forced to resort to various expedients
to obtain q suitable pressure for the
distribution of their water supply. At
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Sthefe was Always q dEscres=:
endo. .sllriel ,asstBs ena a che siyen's
effort that no cow = -fhatter pc.
complished-could hope to rival. And
this cow-being sensible and rather
phleematic animal-didn't attempt to-.
But her efforts within reasonable limits
never failed to arouse the hilarious at-
tentions of the neighbors, and tre-
ouently caused strangers to pause by
the fence and listen open-mouthed to
the astonishing performance.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-13

Crude petroleum is an excellent
remedy for rheumatism,
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quired to handle the thin sheets of
paper and place them accurately under
the press.
The paper upon which the stamps
are printed is made especially for this
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-13

During the year 1896 dead dogs to
the number of 1O,002 were taken out
of Chicago.
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case, but WHICH hfe 1ruqueHtIy H1''
ing. A man who, in the days before
the coming of linotype machines,
found his 'se" box barren or his COM
ma box desolate and bankrupt was
said to be out of those particular sorts.
By his profanity the calamity was
made known, and by his impatient re-
marks to this day is the man who IS
ont of sorts known, whether he is a
banker or policeman.-Chicago Rec
o,,l
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HOut of Sorta.n

Many common expressions are OF
egitimate,,pa parentage, although most
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THINK fate must
h ave decreed it.
One day I wrote
thus:
RIO LET-A frame
i cottage, contain
ing nine rooms. subdi-
vided into parlor, re-
ception. and dining
room, library, kitchen
and four bed chambers,
with broad halls. The
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KLONDIKE PALACE CARS.

First Effort to Put Reindeer to Use in
The herald., 1897-05-30

The creamery business ID the leading
industry Of the town. The Star cream
cry iseQuipped with the best modern
machinery, in fact. 1t is claimed to be
the most complete of any In the state.
1t was established by Mr.. w. Harry
Smith, who has proved his great eff.
cheney in its management and contri-
buted largely to the upbuilding Of the
dairy industry Of the country about
Norwalk. He purchases daily from the
farmers Of the vicinity from 5000 to
$1,000 pounds Of milk. His cash dis
bursement to the dairymen Of the dis
trict is upwards Of $4,000 annually. He
also maintains skimming station at
Artesia, from which place the cream Is
shipped to the creamery and the skim
milk returned to the farmers for fatten-
ing calves, etc. The creamery is also
fitted with a complete apparatus for
cheese-making. The product is all sold
in the Los Angeles market, where It
bears high reputation.
There are two other creameries in
Norwalk. and also one located one and
a half miles distant, at Little Lake.
The Norwalk Cooperative creamery
purchases from the dairymen daily from
1900 to 5000 pounds of milk. This cream
cry is owned and operated by the farm
ers of the district, and is in most pros
porous condition. Mr.. L. Chevally, the