Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — Stamps for an African Chief. [ARTICLE]

Stamps for an African Chief.

Philatelists should note that a new postage stamp that is likely to become rare is being printed at the Fiench Government stamp-printing establishment in the Rue d Haute ille, in Paris. The department ha< been commissioned to produce them for the African chief, Menelik. The stamps are of the nominal value of 5, 10, 25 and 50 centimes, and 1. 2 and 3 francs. The fir t ,the cheaper sorts) represent a lion surmounted by a crown, holding a banner, and the others bear Menelik’s effigy.—London News. The government experimental station in lowa has latelv proven that ground grain, when fed to colts makes them grnv much more rapidly than unground, and the same amount- fed them during April gave batter results than in February. The black-mailer poses as drummajor in virtue's parade.