Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — Piaster of Paris. [ARTICLE]

Piaster of Paris.

If you have no picture molding by which pictures can easily be suspended at any given point, do not stand with aching muscles until you are ready to drop from exhaustion trying to drive nails where they will not hold, but fill the broken plaster with a mixture of plaster of parts, put the nail or hook through the center of it, and hold it In place until the plaster sets.

When, in 1775, almost every vest ,igeof royal power was swept from the colonies, the Continental Congress appointed (July 26) Dr. Franklin Postmaster General. In the autumn of 1776, when Independence had been declared, and Franklin sailed for France, the whole number of postoffices in the United States was 75;' length of post routes, 1,875 miles; revenue for about fifteen m0nth5,827,985; annual expenditures, 832,142.