Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — One-Half a Million of Dollars for Postage. [ARTICLE]

One-Half a Million of Dollars for Postage.

George Stinson & Co., the celebrated Art Publishers, of Portland, Maine, undoubtedly pay more money for postage stamps than any other firm in the world; for the last five years their postage bill has averaged over two thousand dollars per week, making a grand aggregate of ever five-hundred and twenty thousand dollars; this is about the thee-hundreth part of all postage of every description collected by the United States government during that time, and in this connection it must be borne in mind that the country now has over fifty million souls, and fiftythousand But the mous sum paid for postage reprepresents .only the cost of sending the light packages, letters and circulars tor large, heavy packages are sent by express amUfßnght. ' Messrs? Stinson & Co. publish every description of picture of the better class and their trade extends over the entire world. As an illustration of the fact, their trade the furthermost parts of the earth, the following may be interesting: A short time since an order for an assortment of over three thousand large and ex 2 pensive picture was received from Tasmania, away down under the South Pole. Stinson & Co. are a striking illustration of what can be accomplished by energy, industry, and good judgement. There is “room at the. top”---all honor to those who fight their way up. This firm believes in standard goods and low prices, and on that principle their business is conducted. American homes should be made beautiful by refined and meritorious works of art: no one has any excuse for not adding to their homes the charms of pictures, for fine works of high art are within the reach ot all. I get up nicer fitting, and better made garments tb’fn can be got up at any drug stole. J. J. Waterbury.