Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — Boating in Stencil Lettering. [ARTICLE]

Boating in Stencil Lettering.

A novel sloucil is now employed for putting on largo lettering on railway cars. The open spaces are covered with brass wire netting of about ono-olghth Inch mesh. A short, stiff brush is used, with which tho workman beats tho stencil instead of rubbing it, and so gets a good body of thick whitelead npon tho car. This lettering is said to keep bright much-longer than that put on with ordinary stencil, which cannot be thoroughly brushed In without danger of the paint creeping under tho plate. About a Stand-Off. —If there Is anything In the world more fidgety than a man with two cigars and no match it Is a boy In the house on a rainy day. This has no espoclal reference to “that tired feeling,” but If you aro. “out of sorts,” with dyspepsia, biliousness, headache and constipation, and feel tired alLuvcr,.there U nothing thatwlll bring you out as gently and effectually as Dr. White’s Dandelion. It Isa pcrfoctsyßtom renovator. It purifies the blood und makes tho weak strong. Gkkmany is building eleven battle ships, with an aggregate displacement of 70,000 tons.