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Show Many Postage Stamps The little postage stamp Is one of a huge, family. There were more than 18,000,000,000 of them horn in Washington Wash-ington last year, being sufficient for supplying each man, woman and child In the country with 100. They represented rep-resented a face value of $450,000,000 and required 000 tons of paper and 870,000 pounds of Ink In their manufacture manu-facture at the bureau of engraving and printing. Placed end to end they would girdle the "earth eleven times. Tile cost of producing them was about MM cent for each 124. |