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Van Nuys, 1878 Colored the Paper with a pigns with a soluble sulphide

Casilear, 1878 United two distinctive colored papers, one a fugitive and the other a permanent color

Hendrichs, 1879 Dipped ordinary paper in an aqueous solution of sulphate of copper and carbonate of ammonia and then added alkaline solutions of cochineal or equivalent coloring matter

Nowlan, 1884 Backed the ordinary chemical paper with a thin sheet of waterproof paper

Menzies, 1884 Introduced iodide and iodate of potassium or their equivalents into paper

Clapp, 1884 Saturated paper with gallo-tanic acid, but the ink used on this paper contained ferri-sesquichloride or other similar preparation of iron

Hill, 1885 Introduced into paper, ferrocyanide of anese and hydrated peroxide of iron

Schreiber, 1885 Colored paper o and with a subsequent treatment of chromates soluble only in alcohol

Schreiber, 1885 Treated finished paper with ferric- oxide salts and with ferrocyanides insoluble in water but soluble in acids

Schlunated white paper with a resinated ferrous salt, a resin compound of plumbic ferrocyanide, and a resin coanese in combination with a salt of molybdenuer, 1893 Dyed first the splash fibers and mixed them with the paper pulp Second He also treated portions of the surface with an alkali, so as to form lines or characters thereon, then immersed the same in a weak acid, in order to produce water-ed the paper with bised the paper with a bismuth salt and iodide of soda in coed the paper with a benzidine dye and an alkaline iodide

1895 Applied a co has been placed on the paper

Hoskins and Weis, 1895, a safety paper having added thereto a soluble ferrocyanide and a per-salt of iron insoluble in water but decomposable by a weak acid in the presence of a soluble ferrocyanide, as and for the purpose described (2) A safety paper having added thereto a ferrocyanide soluble in water, a per-salt of iron insoluble in water but easily decomposed by weak acids in the presence of a ferrocyanide soluble in water, and a salt of ents, substantially as described

A review of the various processes for treatment of paper in pulp or when finished, demonstrates that time, money and study has been devoted to the production of a REAL safety paper Some compositions and processes have in a enuity of those evil-minded persons, to the detection of whose efforts to alter the writing in documents this class of invention hasin soent furnishes This being trueentirely failed to accomplish the purposes for which they were invented

There are but three so-called safety papers now on the itive colors

It is a strange anomaly, nevertheless it is true, that 90 per cent or more of the ”raised” checks, notes, or other inal condition written on ordinary or so-called safety paper, never could have been successfully ”put through” but for the gross and at tience of their writers by the failure to adopt precautions of the very si temptation in the way of ht of becoers

There is no safety paper, safety ink, or mechanical appliance which will prevent the insertion of words or figures before other words or figures if a blank space be left where the forger can place them

CHAPTER xxxII

CURIOSA (INK AND OTHER WRITING MATERIALS)

ARTIFICIAL INK AND PAPER OWE THEIR INVENTION TO THE WASP--PHoeNICIA, ”LAND OF THE PURPLE-DYE”

--LINES, ADDRESSED TO THE PHoeNICIAN--OLDEST EXISTING PIECE OF LITERARY COMPOSITION--WHERE PAPYRUS STILL GROWS--DU CANGE'S LINES ON THE STYLUS--MATERIALS USED TO PROMULGATE ANCIENT LAWS OF GREECE--ANCIENT METHOD OF WRITING WILLS--MATERIALS EMPLOYED IN ANCIENT HEBREW ROLLS--ANTIQUITY OF EXISTING HEBREW WRITING --OLDEST SPECIMEN OF GREEK WAX WRITING-- WOODEN TALLIES AS EMPLOYED IN ENGLAND--WHEN WRITING IN GOLD CEASED--DATE OF THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF GREEK PAPYRUS IN EGYPT--PERIODS TO WHICH BELONG VARIOUS STYLES OF WRITING--ANECDOTE AND POEM ABOUT THE FIRST GOLD PEN--INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT PENS AND INK-HORNS--EMPLOYMENT OF THE PEN AS A BADGE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY--SOME LINES BY cockER--THE OLDEST EXISTING WRITTEN DOcumENTS OF RUSSIA--WHEN SEALING WAX WAS FIRST EMPLOYED--PLINY'S DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF PAPYRUS PAPER--MODE OF PRESERVING THE ANCIENT PAPYRUS ROLLS--SUGGESTIONS RESPECTING USES OF INK-- COMPARATIVE TABLE ABOUT COAL TAR AND ITS BY- PRODUCTS--COMPOSITIONS OF SECRET INKS AND HOW TO RENDER THEM VISIBLE--CHARACTER OF INK EMPLOYED FOR MANY YEARS BY THE WAshi+NGTON PATENT OFFICE--FACTS ELICITED BY HERAPATH IN THE UNROLLMENT OF A MUMMY--LINES FROM SHAKESPEARE AND PERSEUS--SEVENTEENTH CENTURY OBSERVATIONS ABOUT SECRET INKS--CAUSE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF MANY ANCIENT MSS--METHODS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE RESTORATION OF SOME OLD INKS-- VARIATIONS IN THE MEANING OF WORDS--THE POUNCE BOX PRECEDED BLOTTING PAPER--SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT BLOTTING PAPER--ANECDOTE RELATING TO DR GALE--WHEN WAFERS WERE INTRODUCED-- PERSIAN ANECDOTE ABOUT THE DIVES--EPISODES RESPECTING THE STYLUS--DESCRIPTION BY BELOE OF ANCIENT PERSIC AND ARABIC MSS--CITATION FROM OLD BOSTON NEWSPAPER AND POEM--METHOD OF COLLECTING RAGS IN 1807 AND SOME LINES ADDRESSED TO THE LADIES--METHOD TO PHOTOGRAPH COLORED INKS--POEM BY ISABELLE HOWE FISKE

IN considering the iall” ink and ”pulp” paper, we are not to forget the LITTLE things connected with their development and which, indeed, allic and gallo-tannic acid, and which acids, in conjunction with an iron salt, forms the sole base of the best ink This nut is produced by the puncturesbuds of branches of certain species of oak trees by the female wasp This same busy little insect was also the first professional paper e dry wood into a suitable pulp, the kind of size to be used, hoaterproof and give the paper strength, butto the manufacture of paper which in their ramifications have proved of inestimable benefit and service to the human race

The Greek word ”Phoenicia” means literally ”the land of the purple dye,” and to the Phoenicians is attributed the invention of the art of writing

TO THE PHOENICIAN

”Creator of celestial arts, Thy painted word speaks to the eye; To si spirit's ecstasy”