Show The Burnt Clay Color Everything next year will take the color of the Columbian exposition and as Chicago Chi-cago has chosen terra cotta as her favorite that no doubt will bo the tint of the series of postage stamps that Postmaster General WANAMAKER has contracted for The new stamps will be twice as long as those now I in use in order to admit of the illustrations I which are designed to commemorate the landing of COLUMBUS on our shores the I length running across and not perpendicular perpendicu-lar It Is expected they will be ready for the market next New Years day and that during the year they will supercede those now in use To be consistent it will be necessary for the treasury department to follow the example of its illustrious co laborer of the postofllce section of the government gov-ernment and have terra cotta internal revenue stamps Tho stationery of all the departments will of course be imbrued with the terra cotta tinge and this flaming hue will pervade the business and socia precincts of the very White House itself It will be in the hair of the secretary of war and illuminate the nose of Hon JERRY RUSK Coming back to tho postage stamp there will be a new thrill in the neart of that preposterous personage who goes round collecting specimens in use in different countries and who can tell you without reference to a price current tile market value of a stamp of the time of any foreign potentate The birth of a new design or new series of postage stamps on a souvenir plan is therefore an advent of great pith and moment |