New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-09-18
The P12,r9' Sho,u in Rerl;n.
correspondence London Times.


On entering the drill-hall of the Second
Foot guards, kindly lent for the purpose by
the colonel commando. It, one is struck by
the wide applicability of the familiar and APP
parently narrow term "paper. - You are
not easily persuaded that all you see around
you is paper. 1t takes some time before you
can bring yourself to believe that every OBJ
ject in this vast, elegant, and seemingly
heterogeneous display is paper--nothing but
paper.
by the side Of the ordinary quire on which
you are in the habit OF penning your "pri-
vate and confdentials'' there is paper-lin, n
from the collar to the petticoa,; there are
paper angings from the simplest to the
most gorgeous; paper carpets, paper cur
tains, paper chairs, paper tables, paper chan
deliers, paper frames and an intinity OF
minor knicS-knacks for furnishing rooms.
There is paper lace for nosegays ana confec-
fectionery in every color and design, strong
ly contrasting i'll its elegance with the less
pretending, yet equally indispensable arti-
licles of cigar-case and blotting. pad. There
are paper corals looking like the real ZOO
phyte, paper ornaments and jewellery not
easily found out as audacious impositions
There is the straw paper used for the most
not outlive the day on which they are born:
there is in striking juxtaposition that most
durable Of foolscaps employed for marriage
re- isters.
From tiny envelopes the admiration of
your lady companion, you stray to rolls Of
inter minatle paper $4,000 meters long. From
the finest silk note, designed for 'own COR
respondents letters Of professional
length, you wander to slip support
ing on its sturdy fibre weight of 600
pounds. A special department is devoted to
albumen paper and similar nicetes required
in the photographers art Playing cards,
invitation ca,ds, cartes de p5s5te master
works of allied manufacturers. printers and
painters, vary with equally grand achieve
ments in the book-binding, box-making.
and flower making lines. 10 the most arts
tocratic portfolios are joined the lovliest
portemonnais; to sailing boat are associat-
ed barrels impermeable and water-tight as
caoutchouc; while paste-board figures re-
mind you Of the nursery, and gold and silver
leaves speak of the Christmas tree and its
social delights.
G,imly overlapping these fimsy vanities
stand the cellulose or compressed wood pulp,
Of which the greater part of all paper is made
in modern days. Quantities of rags are stow
ed away in a corner. Hidden from sight. as
beseems their uncomely appearance, tLey
will some day take rank among the most
polished companions assembled i'll the crowd
ed hall. The drugs that will purify them
and qualify them to mingle in the fashion
able society of their compeers are in close
attendance, and SO is the machinery which
fills the greater par! OF the hall, the court
yard and the temporary shed.
OF the GOO exhibitors, but one shall be
named in this unscieuti6c account. His Sc
rene highness, Prince Bismarck, chaucel-
lor of the German empire, being partner OF
the firm, Bernhard Behrend, at Coslin and
Varzin, in addition to his other titles and
qualifications, may be mentioned as a sue
cessful manufacturer of It's necessary of
daily life.