Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-04-22
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Some Of the Uses Of Paper.

Paper car wheels are composed entirely
Of paper rings pressed together under
weight OF six tons, and then fastened by
means of bolts and steel tire put on them,
when they are ready for use Laid loosely,
the rings stack as high as the shoulders of
an ordinary man. Under treatment they
sink to the thickness required; if the tire
should wear or fall Off the wheel, or the
train run from the truck, there would be
no danger of their breaking, Ms they arc
very flexible; and would spring. A paper
ball can be rendered so solid that nothing
but diamond tool eau cause an indcntion
into ii. At the mill is square block of
compressed paper fastened on a turning
lathe, aud so hard that, if fine steel
chsol is held against it when it is moving
instead of cutting the paper ii will break
the chisel into hundred pieces. The
strength is astonishing. You can take n
iive-pound note Of the Bank Of England,
twist ii into kind OF rope, suspend 500
pounds upon ono end of it and not iniure
it in the slightest degree. Bath tubs and
pots are formed by COMPRISING the paper
made out of linen fbers and annealed--
that is, painted over with composition
which becomes part thereof and is fire.
proof. The tubs last indefinitely, never
leak, and, put into the fire, will not burn
up. You can beat on them with ham
mer and not injurc them. Plates COM
pressed and annealed are very durable; you
can not only wash them, but drop them
upon the floor and stand upon them. The
fork can be used for any practical purpose,
and the knife can always be kept sharp.
Paper can be substituted for wood, con-
verified into picture frames and colored like
walnut, cherry and tho like. Bedsteads
| are fashioned the same as car-whcels, only
of long strips instead of rings. They are
very beautiful and lasting. Cooking or
heating stoves arc also annealed, and it is
impossible to burn them out they are less
costly than iron. A house can be literally
constructed Of, and furnished with every
convenience, in paper. The printing-press
| typo and all the fixtures of the Office could
be concocted of this material, and more
cheaply than Of the ordinary kind. A
complete steam engine can DO TINS manu-.
featured and do all required duty. Clothes
and shoes will come in the future. Twenty.
ninc hours are needed to transform liner
fibre into n car.wheel.
Solid card.like paper was made as carly
as the fifth century, but it is stated on the
authority of tho Arabian historians, ant
largely conceded, that linen paper did MOI
come into use until 1870, or, at most, bu
q short time before. The cotton card o.
paper known previously was Of thicl
coarse, woolly texture, brittle and inferior
There is still somo demand for hand mad,
paper, aud in a corner of the l.. l.. Brown
paper company at Adams are simple ant
Inexpensive appointments for the production
Of paper as il was substantially made one
two and three hundred years ago. The cal
comes largely for use in making architec
tural drawings-for drawing paper, in shor
in CONSCIENCE Of tho fact that it will no
stretch, a point indispensable in accurat,
drawings. The paper can DO erased ant
rewritten upon. A brisk demand ha
sprung up for those papers for wedding
and society and invitation cards, billie
doux, personal correspondence, also fo
business houses where recherche stationery
il desirable