Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-12
The Paper ShOtU II, Berlin.

Correspondence London Times
On entering the drill-hall of the Second
Foot guards, kindly lent for the purpose by
the colonel-commandant, one is struck by
the wide applicability of the familiar and ap-
parently narrow term "paper." You are
not easily persuaded that all you see around
you is paper. It 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 linen
from the collar to the petticoat; there are
paper-hangings from the simplest to the
most gorgeous; paper carpets, paper cur
tains, paper chairs, paper tables, paper chan
deliers, paper frames and an infinity of
minor knick-knacks for furnishing rooms.
There is paper lace for nosegays and confec-
fectionery in every color and design, strong
ly contrasting in it's elegance with the less
pretending, yet equally indispensable arti-
ticles of cigar-case and blotting-pad. There
phyte, paper ornaments and jewellery not
easily found out as audacious impositions
There is the straw paper used for the most
ephemeral productions of the press that do
not outlive the day on which thoy are born;
there is in striking juxtaposition that most
durable Of foolscaps employed for marriage
registers.
From tiny envelopes the admiration of
your lady companion, you stray to rolls of
interminable paper II, 900 meters long. From
the finest silk note, designed for Gown cor
respondents letters of professional
length, you wander to slip support
ing on its sturdy fibre weight of 600
pounds. A Especial department is devoted to
albumen paper and similar niceties required
in the photographers art. Playing cards,
invitation cards, cGrtes de Dasate, master
works of allied manufacturers, printers and
painters, vary with equally grand achieve
ments in the book-binding, box-making,
and flower making lines. To the most aris
tocratic portfolios are joined the lovliest
portemonnais; to sailing-boat are associat-
ed barrels impermeable and water-tght 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.
Grimly 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 corner. Hidden from sight, as
beseems their uncomely appearance, they
will some day take rank among the most
polished companions assembled in 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 part of the hall, the court
yard and the temporary shed.
OF the 600 exhibitors, but one shall be
named in this unscientifc account. His &C.
rene highness, Prince Bismarck, chancel-
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 sue
cessful manufacturer of t1is necessary of
daily hfe.