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Show The First Postage Stamps. The poHtiw Htanip. llko tlio railroad rail-road anil llii' telephone. Im a nineteenth nine-teenth century Invention, and only Hlxty-flve yearn of ape. at that, says the Washington Star rireai HiUMn was the fii'Hl cnuntry to mliipt Hits Idea of rhrnii tioHlal riiniir.unlcaiiiin Jftn. 10, 1840. It was about 1835 that llnwliiml Hill, an Ilnsllalinian. tiuin'il IiIh attintlon to the postfll ntcn. of IiIh coinilry. I!y desreeH anil ly rn-p-1 1 1 1 1 v watehluK the ajHti'in then In oyue Hill heranie roinlneeil that a uniform cheap potint)' In the shnpo of an ailhe.slxe stamp for piepiiymunt mi mull mailer would nol only become popular with tho piotilc, but at tho satin- lime innleilnllj IncreaHe the revenue rev-enue or (irent lit Haiti. The Himllsh posloltleo aiilhnrltle.s illscoitraKeil the ncheine as much us possible Never-IhelesH. Never-IhelesH. from mere foice or public sentiment, it was Introduced Into parliament par-liament and ratified In 183H. Of course when the measure became :i law post-aue post-aue stamps were a great success and i have since been adopted by all civil- j Iznl and n number (r uncMllxed conn-1 tries of the world. Mt Hill liecainu prnminentl liientltled with the i oiial Mem of Cr.'Hl Hillaln. and In IStfO. In -'COKlilllon r his rpai senlces. QneeiF Victoria made him a K. C H. (MiIkIiI commander of the bath). He passed away In 1882. full of honors, at i ripe old afif He may bo called the "rather of Hie postaRc stamp." (ireat Hrltaln was the llrst country to adopt adhesive stamps and compara-thely compara-thely cheap postage for Its people, for II was not until IS 17 that tho Tailed Slates fell In line In this re-siecl. re-siecl. The IssmIiik of stamps Tor post-.m post-.m use Is left to the postmaster fien-eral. fien-eral. who from time to time, as the exigencies of tho case requl.e. has tho different stamps that he (Ileitis requisite requi-site Issued to tho public The prtnthiR of the poslace stamps of this country was formerly done by prlvato bank note companies, but now the government govern-ment does Its own work. All of Ihu stumps nte printed by tho bureau of enuravliiK and printing of Washington, Washing-ton, under the direction of the treasury treas-ury department. This has been done since 1894 The issuing or the postal commodities In tho postolllce department depart-ment Is In tho hands of the third assistant as-sistant post mast er-general |