The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-15
CURIOSlrIES In PAPER.
Wonderful Utility of the Thin Sub
stance.

1t is surprising what American in
genuity furnishes to the world from
paper.
That car wheels have for years been
made from this substance, is nothing
new to the American public, but when
We are informed that stoves, 6reprooi
c2,imneys, bricks, boats, gas and water
pipes, houses, floors, pianos, and other
equally wonderful articles are made
therefrom, even the most disinterested
become curious, and are anxious to
learn more about this wonderfully &C
cOmmGGating article.
The last five years have done more
to develop the uses of paper
! than century of years prior to that
time, and daily we learn of more start
ling and surprising news concerning it.
One of the greatest novelties, If
novelty it can be called, is coffin
made from compressed pagsr. TO
those who have investigated It's advani-
ages over the wooden ootEn, it has bs-
come quite popular, and in the east is
| now ''aR the rage" We are assured it
will never CT Eck, decay Or waxp, in TACT,
it is claimed. will last forever. The
! interior is positively air tight, and a
| corpse can lie kept therein for weeks
before intern lent. If necessary, without
| becoming off ensive. We cannot youch
for this. but ,re so informed. Another
surprising "Ntankee notion" has just
been heard 0 |. A man claims to make
brick Of pa, ser, to lie used in paving
our streets. He claims wenders for it.
1t is more du :able than stone, is softer
on the horse s. feet, is noiseIess COM
pared to ston and can be produced at
much lower cost. Water,
frost or wear VIE have bat
little eEsct On it. We cannot
doubt its posi- biiity when We knew that
paper water pipes have never burst,
that tubs an,7 buckets have never
leaked, that pa per ehimneys anG stoves
have never bur ned cat, and that pianos
lave never CT scked and retain their
proper piteh for nlUch longer period
than woodsn on es, in fact, very seldom
need tuning
Although Am erica is foremost in
these new ideas, Europe is ceHSainly
not backward IL. eniSrgiRg on them,
and she perhaps! produces the most
wonderful of the articles. The lEieros
dOOf6 TejcIIcu ~, WCAO ALISb 'ARdI6 Ia
Paris. The conn Oisse0rs and musical
savants of Peris q reclaim tAem 80 be
of unequaled.Guali Y, rich, IDelloWSones
taking the place of i6udRess. The
Duke Of Devonshire is the possessor of
one. and nothing would in6Eae hina to
part with it.
The hreprcef chiuneyS are Bees
Iau invention, and the stoves, both
cooking and heating, were srst pro-
duced in Berlin. Paper hats wereaGrst
produced in Great Br tain, laut tubs.
pals, gas and water pipes, picture
frames, doors, Geors, ouScs- gefriger-
ators, car wheels, fur uifure, collins.
bricks, and scores of 9th er articles are
all of American INVENTOR.
As paper is In man. us STANCES taking
the place of steel and iron, as uss
in place OF wood is certainly
the most practicable. It has
all the good qua lities. but
none of the defects of wo 3D. Ia any
climate. like that of Ca if0rnia and
Colorado, furniture, piant lS. in fact,
any article mac from wood +, Lasts but
a comparatively short time. What in
the east is considered weY-eeaso0ed
hard wood, will, in those dry climates,
almost Immediately CRACK or wsrp.
Paper, however, has stood the mast
wonderful tests, climate bagiug ao
effect on it whatever, and there SIS.
barely any article of WOOD that c.nnoi
now bs made from this wCudertua
article