Show ue uses for quills owing to the substitution of steel pens perm for or quill pens pen 4 other uses have had to lie be found for the goose quill and now they are converted into bri bristles fAles for brushes toothpicks fishing floats fuses for guns and hair pencil holders the last year in which the board of trade anade any record of the import of quills was 1870 when 27 goose quills valued at and swan quills of the value of were received the quills of the tile swan and turkey were used for en engrossing graming pens tho those se of the goose for ordinary writing aud and those of the crow and wild duck for fine descriptions of writing the classifications of goose quills were numerous according to their position in the wing pinion in one establishment in paris parts toothpicks per day are now made of quills or considerably more inore than at hundred million i early yearly each woman engaged can flit twenty boxes in a it diy aty containing forty small bundles of twenty toothpicks each or SOO SW toothpicks per Lox Chambers journal our |