THE CHAMPION STAMP-LICKER.
She is a lady, and she is an American. Her name is Ada Crawford, forewoman in a Philadelphian publishing house, and she can lick 3 000 stamps an hour and keep that up for days at a time. It is not a sponge, or a damper, or a roller that she uses to moisten the gum ; hut she does it with a dainty lick of her tongue. She has felt not the slightest ill-efFccts from the proceeding, and has even gone so far as to assert that her appetite fails her if trade is slack and there are no stamps to lick. Miss Crawford has been at this sort of work for four years. Now, according to her own (Lures, she can stamp 24,000 envelopes a day. Allowing for slack days we might say she works at this pace two hundred days in a year, a calculation which brings the number of stamps up (o 4,800.000. In four years 19,200,000 postage stamp will have passed gumside down over her dainty tongue, equal to more than the total number of letters sent through the Norwegian post-office in the course of a year.
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Western Star, Issue 2216, 24 June 1898, Page 6
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194THE CHAMPION STAMP-LICKER. Western Star, Issue 2216, 24 June 1898, Page 6
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