FUCO.--To color, paint or dye a red color. FUCOSUS.--Colored, counterfeit, spurious, painted, etc. FUCUS.--Rock lichen (orchil) red dye. Red or purple color. The (reddish) juice with which bees stop up the entrance to their hives. Bee glue. FUCUS.--A drone. In Japan the word "ink" possesses more than one meaning Four hundred Inks--one degree of sixty miles." (See Geographical Grammar, of 1737, page 3.) "Say what you will Sir, but I know what I know; That you beat me at the Mart, I have your hand to show; If the skin were Parchment, and the blows you gave were Ink, Your own Hand-writing would tell you what I think." --Comedy of Errors, iii, 1. The first book ever printed in Europe, to wit, a copy of "Tully's Offices," is carefully preserved in Holland. White's Latin-English Dictionary, 1872, distinguishes the words Atramentum and Sutorium in their interpretations. ATRAMENTUM.--The thing serving for making black. A black liquid of any kind. A writing ink. Shoemaker's black. Blue vitriol. SUTORIUM.--Belonging to a shoemaker. Before the employment of blotting paper a pounce- box which contained either powdered gum sandarach and ground cuttle-fish bones, or powdered charcoal, sand and like materials was used by shaking it like a pepper- box on freshly written manuscripts. Blotting paper as first employed consisted of very thin sheets and of a dark pink color, which fashion changed to blue in later years. Good blotting paper of the present time removes fully two thirds of fresh ink when used on HARD finished paper. Blotting paper should not be used upon records. Its use removes the body of the ink, leaving discoloration, but nothing for penetration. In inks intended for copying, the employment of blotting paper is especially bad. "Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a Grammar School; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and contrary to the King, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill." --2 King Henry VI, iv, 5. Mr. Knight relates a conversation between Dr. Gale and a gentlemen from the West relative to the introduction of some material into ink to prevent moulding. Dr. Gale had astonished his friend by stating-- "will prevent the deposition of the ova of infusoria animalcutae;" when it was suggested that he add "and the sporadic growths of thallogenic cryptograms and be fatal to the fungi." The University of Pennsylvania claims to possess the oldest piece of writing in the world and which is on a fragment of a vase found at Nippur. It is an inscription in picture writing supposed to have been made 4,500 years before Christ. Wafers were not introduced until the close of the sixteenth century.