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IUU 11U5^41 u wthe hollow of thoThe yarn is the old-fashioned blue stocking yarn, and the players will have blue yarn or they kick. V?hy they insist on its being blue no one knows, for the natural wool is white. It is bought by the manufacturer in lots of 2 00 or 3000 pounds.Now, the workman shows the use of the standard, with it* cup shaped hollow. Kv-ery minute, or sometimes every few seconds, be puts the growing ball on the standard and with a wooden mallet, tiat and rather wide and short, he beats the ball, turning it about in every way, as he ham meisit. To make the ball more solid the yarn is dampened.The ball is approaching eight inches in circumference, and he knows by long practice when he has wound enough varn to give it this circumference. Tiie ball must be eight inches in circumference, including a horse hide cover. The horse hide* are bought in sides and in lots of 200 or :;00 The h ud Quarters of the sides, however, are cut off before purchase, as the ski* is too heavy for use in base balls.nm.POUNDING INTO SHAPE.For league balls the finest parts of the side of leather are selected. It is tanned especially for the making; et base balls in a way to make the leather tough, *o that the stitches will not br«ak out. The cutting: is not done by hand. It is don# with a steel die, and boys work at nothing: else all day but with a die and a mallet over a bench and leather. Whan thlt;« btulciar of tUo ballULllJ 1110 TV i JH'lIJi* VI tliu »;an m ~ rand afterward in tin foil, and finally the packing of it in a stout paper which it comfortably fits.A league ball costs to jobbers $1.50 at retail. The manufacturers sell them at $12.60a dozen.—LN. Y. Sun.The Cost of Newspapers.f Eugene M. Ctmn In June Century.J“What is the total annual cost to the wholesale purchasers of news- namely, the publishers-of the entire nows product of the United States? An answer to this question would be of interest, but it has never been answered. For several years I have been gathering information upon which to base an estimate. Publishers have uniformly extended me every courtesy; nevertheless I lind if an exceedingly difficult quantity to arrive at, and for my figures I do not claim ab-olute accuracy. Publishers in this country annually expend something: near the following: sums for news:1 or pres* cUspatcles.................... £1.820,000For special despatches.................. 2,*ift0,000For local news........................... 12,600,000*16.570000“The business of the Associated Press, a mutual concern which pays nothing for its news and which serves its patrons at approximate cost. amounts to $1,250 000 per annum; and that of the United Press, a stock corporation, is $50,000 per annum. The former aims to provide news about all important events, in which work $i2lt;\000 in telegraph toils is expended, while the latter endeavors above all else, to provide accounts of events occurring in the \ icinity of the respective papers served.”To Keep Furs in the Summer.[Dry Goods Chronicle.]When you are ready to put away fnrs andwoollens, and want to guard against thedepredations of moths, pack them securelyin paper Hour sajks and tie them up well.Tills is better than camphor or tobacco or snuff scattered among them in chests or drawers. Beiore putting your mutfs away lor the summer twirl them b the cords at thlt;*entjs, so that every hair will be straight. Put them in their boxes and paste a strip of paper where the lid fits ou.He Courted Dqnger.fTexas Siftmes] •Mr. Seaside-It is very dangerous to go on the water in a boat. *Mr? Seaside'-Yes. ail kinds of distressing accidents are liable to occur. Old Moneybags went out on the laKe in v boat with tho Widow Gitthar, and when they got back they Were en^a^cL
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Boston Weekly Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Sat, Jun 07, 1890
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