Our country and its resources; . only 10 per cent of this wasactually applied to the stamps, thebalance being wiped off. The gumon the back of the stamps is madeby scientifically roasting the highestgrade of tapioca flour, such as isused for making pudding, and as350,000 pounds were used, all of theinhabitants of a large city wouldhave been given their fill of tapiocapudding for one meal with the ma-terial used. The sheets of one hundred stampseach, as sent to the post offices,piled upon each other, would makea shaft over six and three-fifthsmiles high, and placed end to endwould make a strip
Our country and its resources; . only 10 per cent of this wasactually applied to the stamps, thebalance being wiped off. The gumon the back of the stamps is madeby scientifically roasting the highestgrade of tapioca flour, such as isused for making pudding, and as350,000 pounds were used, all of theinhabitants of a large city wouldhave been given their fill of tapiocapudding for one meal with the ma-terial used. The sheets of one hundred stampseach, as sent to the post offices,piled upon each other, would makea shaft over six and three-fifthsmiles high, and placed end to endwould make a strip 16,500 miles long,and as there are ten rows of stampsin each sheet, a strip of singlestamps would be 165,000 miles long,and would girdle the earth six times,with something over. The Bureau of Engraving andPrinting prints all of the securitiesof the United states Government,which embraces checks. drafts,bonds, paper money, revenue, cus-toms, parcel post and postage stampsand certificates of deposit for thePost Office Department,. 302 OCR COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES It has been our constant endeavornot only to safeguard our stampsand circumvent their counterfeiting,but to make them really you comprehend the smallspace allowed for artistic embellish-ment, you necessarily must marvelat the results we obtain. The engraving division is the cor-nerstone of the bureau and the bul-wark of our securities. In this divi-sion every form of security hasits origin, and the most artisticand skilled engravers that the worldproduces are employed here. Steel engraving is the perfectionof art as applied to securities; itdiffers from painting and sculptur-ing, inasmuch as the engraver whocarves bis work on steel plates mustdeliberately study the effect of eachinfinitesimal line. Free hand witha diamond-pointed tool, known as agraver, aided by a powerful magni-fying Lrlass. he carves away, con-scious that one false cut or slip ofhis tool or miscalculation of depthor width of line will de
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