Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-21
PAPER MANUFACTURE.
wonder ui Advance Maize In This Indus
try Within Forty Years.


! Wonder ul Advance Male In This Indus
/ try within Forty Years.
Inc Chinese are supposed to have
been The inventors OF paper They
| ustd Flee straw or rags of cotton or
linen for making le'r paper stock.
Mo'lern nations followed their exam
pc, but male few inn rovements on
the ancient proc 'sses until within forty
years. Since then very decade b 5
witnessed great advances in this in
dustry. New methods. processes and
! machinery have been devised new
mat rails brought into use, and new
| mnltifarious forms of the manufac =.
ured product now enter into the econ
omics of modern life. R gs are gath
erel in nil parts If the world and
brought by ship-loads to the Unitod
5 ates. but they are no longer the
C isf raw material Piper fib ers are
Oh aimed from old rope. iute butts,
/ straw OF the various grains, from MANY
grasses and reeds. and from the wood
oil cyl ress. pine. poplar. spruce, hem
lock, basSwool. sN can ore and 9th r
trees. NV great mills prepare the
fiber sock for parer manufacturers.
who buy it by the ton, in bulk,
AID then work it into whatever shapes
their business requires. As it costs far
less to carry chemicals to the forests
than it would to transport the logs.
wcod-pulp es Adjustments are gener-
ally located near sources of supply.
The chief chemicals are lime, potash.
5 da ash. and caust.c soda. These
alkalies. dissolved in water to make
TIE cooking liquids. have been EN-
played in huge wooden tanks, in
which. b, cause the temperature could
no be carried above boiling heat, il
was ecessary to continue the cooking
rom two to three days. The progress
of invention has recently made it POS
sible to greatly reduce The time re.
.ired for this purpose The demand
tor paper in all forl f, r old and new
uses is unlimit d, and is daily increas.
ing In no part of the globe is there
greater variety of vegetable fbers
than in the South, whose cane-brakeS.
swamps, forests. and cotton-helds can
furnish inexhausiible quantities for all
time The cotton laitations alone
could probably supply every pulp-mill
H. America with ma,ertal cheaply
gathered aud handled, and containing
long. strong. beautiful fiber bait.
more JourDa, Or &c .o,crce
--Carker lin hotel corrldor) Lets
get out of here, Barker" Barker
whats the matter?' Carker-"Those
two big men are having such violent
discussion that I'm afraid it will end in
fight" Barker (carelessly)-"No
hanger of that. They're both pugil-
ISIS. "-Detrou Free Press.
A woman will get up and tear
around and rant about female suffrage
md demand equal rights with man in
A torrent of imprisoned chest tones,
put when night comes shell get down
aud trembliugly peer under the bed tor
the man she knows isn't there.
Somebody predicts that 1.-THE tele-
phone will develop in time so that
everybody will be compelled to have it.
The messenger boy must go" We
have great deal of confidence in
science, but we don't believe yet that it
will ever be able to make the meSsen-
ger boy go.-B0Ston Post.
And now the Sunday newspapers
have formed trust; and. as was in
svitable. have raised their prices one
cent. If these greedy monopoliSts
persist in their fiendish design OF
wringing four cents out of the pockets
Of the toiling masses, in exchange for
, dollars worth of reading, they may
vet find tina. even a eirculation-swearer
will NOT save them from bankruptcy.
Pack.
you don't seem at all cast down
bv the length of the sentence the Judge
has given YOU" said sympaThetic ny
SANDER to the sad-eyed German who
had lust been condemned to twenty
years of servituie in the State prison.
No" replied the prisoner, wearity' i
10 not ut all it mind. | have thirteen
years the proof-reader on German
newspaper been. Somerrt'fe |o"rra1,
-Dame-..You are entirely mistaken
As to the object of the anti-kisslns So
riatv II is not intended to discourage
courtship. No. indeed. The object Is
to break up the practice of allowing
,,;n;stcrs to kiss brides" Male caller
20. that's il. Are the members Oh
the society engaged young ladies VINO
expect shortly to be married. Dame
well, no; the members are mostly
ministers wives. "-Omaha World