Penman's Art Journal . small hammer until it cracked, whichmark formed the slit. From such crude beginning has ourmodern steel pen evolved. To such a state of perfection has pen-making machinerybeen brought, coupled with the division of labor and keencompetition of trade that several firms now have on nutputof from 20,000 to gro^s per week. Tbe total productionin Birmingham, tbe greatest center in the world for penmaking, is rtckoneri at leoiHiO gross, or pens, pprweek. Tbe number ond variety of patterns now made in thiscountry and in England is hardly credible. One of ttiop
Penman's Art Journal . small hammer until it cracked, whichmark formed the slit. From such crude beginning has ourmodern steel pen evolved. To such a state of perfection has pen-making machinerybeen brought, coupled with the division of labor and keencompetition of trade that several firms now have on nutputof from 20,000 to gro^s per week. Tbe total productionin Birmingham, tbe greatest center in the world for penmaking, is rtckoneri at leoiHiO gross, or pens, pprweek. Tbe number ond variety of patterns now made in thiscountry and in England is hardly credible. One of ttioprominent American manufacturers turns out as manv as:iOOOdiffereutstylesof pens, and a leading maker in Birminu-ham has a catalogue of varieties, wbu^h be k^eps instock, while many other patterns are made to order.—Washtngton Star. Every Man His Own Pen, It makes no difference to Walter Lowery, of JerseyCity, that steel pens rust and gold pens break, that stubsblot and fine pens scratch. For Mr. Lowery proceeds. 1 pen, EVERY MAN HIS OWN PEN. on the principle that every man should be hisBO to speak. He allows the nail of his right forefinger to grow to aprodigious length. Then he trims it to a fine point andwrites away, cheerfully dipping it into the ink well. Jshed by an Englisha Long Vacation. Monsieur DArtout, who filled more than one impo-tant post under the French Government, was a man ofeasy going disposition, which was taken advantage ofby those subordinate to him, says the Youths Compan-ion. He never punished and rarely reproved, and theresult was a lax discipline, notwithstandmg the energywhich he infused into his own department through theexercise of his own influence and ability. In La Vie a Paris, Villemot relates that when:Monsieur DArtout was at the head of the Ministry of theInterior there was a clerk in tbe bureau who could writea remarkable hand with as remarkable speed, and theMinister always kept him in his own offices as privatesecretary. One day the
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