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Show BLOTTINO PAFEK. Blotting paper was discovered 'pursly bv sccld.nt. Borne ordinary paper was being made one day at a mill in Berk-shirr. Berk-shirr. England, when a rare less workman forgot to put In Uie slalng material. The whole of the paper made waa regarded as being useless Tbe proprietor of the mill desired to write a note shortly afterward, and he took a piece of wast, paper, thinking think-ing It waa good enough for the purpose. To his intense annoyance the Ink spread all over the paper. Suddenly there flashed over his mind the thought that this paper pa-per would do Instead of tend for drying Ink and he at once advertised bis wsste paper as "blotting." There waa such a big demand that the mill ceased to make ordlnarv paper, and waa soon occupied In msking blotting paper only, ths nse of which soon spread to all count rlea.-. Christian Herald. - |