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Show How Foolacan Got its Name. Uvcry one probably has wondered why a certtiln size paper, familiar to all who write. Is called 'oolscap. As early as the year lUul Toter marks wt'To emplo;. ed by pnpor manufactttr-?rs manufactttr-?rs to distinguish th-.Ir products. Ono grndo of paper ninr'.i in dorr.and during the Middle ages, resembling what wo call fpolscnp and known by that name, had for Its r ter mark n fool's head . 'dug a and bels. The mark c cutci' on t.iis grade ot paper until tho middle of tho seventeenth seven-teenth century, when tho figure of L'rttannln wns substituted by tho I.'ngllsh -manufacturers, nnd other marks by other'pnper makers. No ono has, howevor, changed tho tmmo of tho paper, so wo havo to this day tho foolscap paper. |