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Show In-entor of rnstat Card. A quiet Jublleo, says the London Telegraph, Tel-egraph, has just beou celebrated In Vienna by the Austrian technical professor. pro-fessor. Dr. Emanuel Herrmann, on the thirtieth anniversary of his invention of the postcard. It seems that his Idea of an open stamped card was Immediately Imme-diately accepted by tho than Austrian post director when first presented, and the card rapidly found Its way to England, Eng-land, Germany, Franco, America nnd Japan. In tho first month aftor its introduction a million postcards were printed in Austria, a number that has since increased to 130,000,000 annually in that country. Dr. Herrmann made nothing out of his idea. |