Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1893 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

\A/ z T ~ The Board of Promotions in the Interior . Department, which yas created by an order Issued Dec. 31 t 1852, hasbeen abolished. The Columbia iron works Eave notified ' to the Government. Nearly 94,000,000 wortfi of National bank/ notes were issued to the'National banks last month and thmprospeets are that the ‘ demand for oiMufation will this month reach at least 96,000,000. yt» Mi aUilfai Juk', Postmaster General Bissell has decided'

to abandon the tKree sizes of postal cards now in nse. and to substitute one size foi both single ap<f reply cards. With tlial juepose ih vießrJthgcl specifications xvhtch have been sent to prospective bidders tin the contract of furnishing the postal service with cards during the next four yean call for single cards of the uniform sfeeof inches, This is what is known as the international size.it being used generally by the countries composing the national postal union. Tlje double or reply card now in use will be continued, with the size, when folded, reduced to that o! the international card. These two cards will take the placer’ of the small, or woman’s card, the medium and largp care and the targe return card.