A Valuable Secret.
All the ink with which the Uiritcd States Government print their paper money ia made by one man. The father of the present manufacturer, a Mr Eddy (says the Press News), invented the ink, but he never told anyone how the ink was made until just before he died, when he let his eon into the secret of the composition. Had the fatal accident happened to the' inventor before he told his son about the ink, the Government 'printer would have been in a dilemma, for Mr Eddy's invention is the only kind of ink that will print on the peculiar surface of the fibre of which Government note paper is made. The present Mr Eddy employs •only sis men in the manufacture of his ink, and none of them is in the secret. Not one of them has yet seen Mr Eddy in the interesting act of mixing the ingrediments of which it is composed. He locks himself up in his room for two weeks .every year, and it is there and then that he mixes stuif enough to supply the Government with ink for the ensuing j year, and receives for this £10,000 a year.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 265, 14 May 1896, Page 3
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200A Valuable Secret. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 265, 14 May 1896, Page 3
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