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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDEll: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, i894.
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Charles Dudley Warner
Once said:
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POSTAGE STAMP FAD.
IT BEGAN AS A HARMLESS AMUSE
MENT AND BECAME A MANIA.
set of books on diepiay.
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BITTERS
Thke Iron—ears the pbyekMa-ead
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“Myatio Care" for Bheamstlsm and
Neuralgia, radically eared la 1 lo 8 dsn.
Its action apootha system Is remarkable
aad mysterious It removes at ones the
cease sad the disease Immediately dis
appears. The first dose greatly beoe-
,. flts, 740. Bold by S J. Edridge, Drag
gist, Americas. • lUdAwSm
Wkatstonslfanrawial Dr.MUse'FalnPttl*
Millions of Dollars Art Locked Dp In HU.
of Paper That Hava No Beal Value—Some
of tbo Bars Specimens Tor Which Faliu-
Inus Prices Are Asked and Given.
The postage stamp mania la one of
the most curious of tinman fads, re
marks a New York writer. A collection
is at the most worth the weight
tho metal Not so a collection of
stamps. Tho fashion may go oat as it
come in, and then the stamps will bo
only so much waste paper.
The fadbrokeout in 1861 in the form
of a few sporadio cases among school
boys and maiden ladies. It was not only
a harmless fad, bat in the case of the
schoolboys it was even on edneativo
one. It proved the easiest, tho pleasant
est and tho most efficacious way of
driving knowledge of geography into
the adolcsoent mind.
Bat now that these first few sporadio
attacks haro developed into something
alarmingly like an epidemio one begins
to spccnlato whether tho oraze of tho
philatelist is not a distinct bar to hu
man progress, inasmuch as it oonsnmet
a large amount of brain force and vital
onorgy that might better bo turned iuto
other and moro useful cbannola of ac
tivity.
In the United States alone there is nn
organization called tho American Phlla-
telio association, which numbers 1,000
members. But this represents only n
small fraction of tho philatelists actual
ly in tho country.
The greatest and most famous of liv
ing philatelists — considered merely
from the philatelist point of viow—is
M. Philjppo do Ferrnri, n dignified,
courteous and wliito haired old gentle
man who lives in Paris. Ho is a son of
tho late Duohess do Gallicra, who was
also a pnssionnto lover of stamps.
His collection is valued at g500,000.
Ho has been known to pay 8500 for nn
album which contained only a singlo
stamp that ho coveted. For moro valu
able collections ho has never limited his
expenditures.
Next to tho Ferrari collection comes
that of Baron Arthur do Rothschild,
which is so valuable that its ownor, with
tho truo jealousy of tho collector, re
serves tho pages containing his rarest
treasures for tho delectation only of
himself and his most intimate friends.
Now, what constitutes tho enormous
valuo of these collections? It is not tho
number of the specimens. There are
moro than 6,000 different varieties of
stamps now actually in existence. A
certain number can bo obtained at com
paratively light expense.
But tho rarer ones command largo
prices. Never mind whether tho rarity
was created by ago or accident.
Tho MaoMnhon stamp in Franco is
tho bine rose, tho unattainable ideal of
the collector. When the marshal was
president of France, his wifo was anx
ions to soo his imago set in stamps.
Designs were accordingly prepared,
bat the postal commissioner rejected
them and adopted another design. Nev
ertheless there is • legend that some of
these MacMohon stamps got into circa
lotion. It s singlo specimen ever tarns
np, it will be priceless.
Another lost pleiad is a postago stamp
Issued by the government of British
Guiana in 1850. It has disappeared from
the market, and specimens held in the
hands of private collectors are rained
at $360.
A sot of fonr 1860 stamps also issued
in British Guiana bring anywhere from
|100 to 8600, and a sot of four 1863
Hawaiian stamps are valued at f1,600.
The 16 and SO cent reunion stamps
bring $600. The New Brunswick 6 cent
stamp, with the head of O'Caonoll, is
rarely parted with under $160.
Rare is also the black Canadian 13
penny stamp, valued at |136.
Bat the collector does not stop at le
gitimate issues of stamps. He gives
fancy prices for varieties of shades, for
perforations, errors and watermarks.
At a recent stamp exhibition in Vien
na an enthusiostio collector named Gi-
welb- displayed with prido tho "error”
of Franco—a stamp of 36 centimes
printed in bluo instead of black, the
"error' of Afghanistan and a stomp
with a missing ornament in a corner.
Dr. Mallmann of Vienna had even
moro wondrous delights to unfold, for
he wss the proud possessor of tho two
rare "errors” of tbo Capo of Good
Hope, stamps of 1 penny and 4 ponco
respectively, which are blue instead of
red and red instead of blue.
Such "errors' 1 fetch a very high
price, kept down only by tho uneasiness
of creating new "values" by wanting
misprinting
No article on philately could bo com
plete without somo notice of the 1,000,-
000 postago stamps myth. This still
survives In vaguo and uncertain forms
in tho rural districts, where it is believ
ed that some vast benefit, financial or
other, will accrue to any ono who col
lects 1,000,000 stamps and forwards
them to tho proper address. Bnt the
proper address is never known.
CRISPI'S AMBITIONS.
Interesting Situation Unde Apparent by tho
Premier's Overtures to the Vatican.
Tho remorkablo speech mado by Pre
mier Crispi at Naples the other day has
ainco boen almost tho sole topio of con
versation among politicians, whose ex
citement ooutrusts curiously with the
composure with which the apparent
overtures for a reconciliation between
state and church have been discussed at
the Vatican. The clerical calmness is
due to the fact that the pope and bis
counselors have long boon aware of tho
desire of the court and the liberal aris
tocracy and of the great middle class
lor a friendly understanding with the
Vatican and of the gradual conversion
of tho redonbtablo Crispi himself to tbo
political necessity for a working ar
rangement between church and stata
Tho spread of ultra revolutionary doc
trines in recent years lias greatly alarm
ed Crispi, himself an old revolutionist,
and the various attempts on his own life
have doubtless quickeuod his hatred of
anarchism. Bnt tho main motive actu
ating him has been personal and polit
ical.
There is no longer a Crispi party in
the Italian chamber. Tbo present min
isterial majority is composed of men of
various shades of political opinion,
whose notion at any given moment can
not be relied upon. Crispi’s aim now is
undoubtedly tho formation of n now
moderate conservative party, bnt he has
little prospect of success without tho
support of tho clericals, whoso influence
throughout Italy is enormous. Tbo
Agenzia Libera Italiaua said soino tiino
ago that Crispi, in tho course of conver
sation with frionds, said ho bad tlireo
ambitions in life—the restoration of tho
national finances, the re-estalilishmeut
of friendly commercial relations with
France and tho reconciliation of churoh
and state. Hostile politicians are doing
their best to thwart tho first, but tho
secoud is believed to bo within measur
able distance. Tho third depends upon
Crispi’s power, desire and courago to
offer tho Vatican sufficient inducements
to cxt-rciso its influence at tbo parlia
mentary poll;:. It is believed that tho
Vatican is quite prepared to treat—
New York Sun Correspondent
DISCOMFITURE OF A LADY.
lacoacniutu.
A clerical correspondent of ono of
the ohuroh paper* relates that a certain
prelate had great difficulty in suppress
ing-hi* laughter at the oonsocration of
a church the other day owing to the de
vice on one of tho school banner* which
was carried in the procession before the
service. This banner was adorned with
a very fierce looking lion, with terrible
claws and tooth, while underneath him
was the legend, “Bnffer littlo children
to came unto an "—London Troth.
Fallow Imr.
There is a marked peculiarity about
yellow fever which distinguishes it from
' epidemics. It is sasentiaUy a dis
ofa hot eliaatA and it taksa a cer
tain amount and duration at heat to
awaken it to Ufa It is said that it etn
r prevail where Indian corn will
not ripen. -
Attacked by a Darrel or Cider While Pric
ing Kindling Wood.
Lewis Mntthcwsou, a young farmer of
Chestnut Hill, drovo down to this city
last week with a load of kindling wood
to soil Before starting out lie Went
down cellar and tested a fall barrel of
cider. Finding it bad a good hoad on,
Lewis loaded it on the back end of tbo
wagou, with tbe idea that it also aould
be sold in tbo city.
It was a long way to town, tho day
was warm, and the sun beat down on
tho load with considerable strength.
Farmer Matthcwson had entered tho
city and was driving along the street,
looking out for kiudlingwood customers,
when a handsomely dressed woman ap
proached the curb to ask him tbe prioo
of tho load.
The farmer turned his horse np to the
walk and had just laid down tho reins
when an explosion occurred. The bong
of the older barrel flew out with great
force and, as lack would have it, landed
squarely in the face of the prospective
customer. A stream of cider followed
closely in the wako of the bung. Both
struck her in tho month, and there was
a panic. Tbe blow, of course, startled
tho woman, and as she opened her
month to scream the cider filled it so
quickly as to foroo tbe scream back. It
choked the woman so that she nearly
strangled.
The noise of the explosion, the hiss of
the escaping cider and the oonrulsire
gurglo of tho woman combined to
frighten Fanner Hatthewson’s horse,
and before tho young man knew what
had happened tho animal had started to
run. Matthcwson waa thrown to tbe
ground, the wheels ran over him, and
the horso kept on. Before ho stopped the
kindling wood was scattered over two
wards, the wagon was wrecked, and the
ambulanoe waa on its way to take the
young farmer to the hospital. Fortu
nately ho was not muoh injured, excopt
in feelings, and even these were nothing
compared to the state of mind of the
woman.—Ansonla (Conn.) Letter.
Somethin* Green on tho Moon.
Grass grows on tho moon. Louis
Gathmann says he has seen it with his
telescopo, but it is all burnod up now,
just like the grass on the earth.
Mr. Gathmann, whilo observing the
moon on tho evening of Aug. 13, was
struck by a peculiar green spot on tbe
northwosteni edge of tho satellite’s up
per limb. At first ho thought there was
somo obstruction in his telescope that
caused the appearance, bnt when ho al
lowed tho moon to pass through tho
Whole field of the gloss the spot was
still stationary. It was almost rectan
gular in form, with a bastioniiko pro
jection at each corner, and was located
near the crater of Tycho Bralio, and
Professor Gathmann estimated that it
was about 40 by TO miles in area. When
Mr. Gathmann looked for the spot 33
hours later, it was gone. He believes
that it was vegetation.
His theory is that when a hemisphere
of tho moon’s surface first begins to re
volve into tbe sunlight the heat of that
luminary draws moisture from the
moon’s interior and vegetation springs
up, to be at once withered by theierrifio
heat that falls upon the moon when tbe
sun’s rays strike it directly.—Boston
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