The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-08-17
- -
PAPER MANUFACTURE.
Wonderful Advance, Nude I'm This IndJ
Try MIth.n EhrLy Hears.

try Sth.n FSriy Years.
The Cliaese ar; supposed To have
been The Inventors OF papar They
used rice straw or =. - of cotton or
linen for making 'ier paper stock.
Molern nations followed their exam
p e. but ma ie few is,l ruvements on
the ancient proc ssrs until within forty
years. Since then every decade has
Witnessed great advances in this in
dustry. New methods processes and
machinery have been devised. new
materials brought into use. and new
multiiarious forms of the mauufac =
ured product now enter into he econ
omies of modern lif-. Il tgs are gath
creI in all parts If the world and
brought by ship-loads to the United
5 ates. but they are no longer the
t if raw material PIPER fib ers are
ID aimed from old rope. jute butts.
II aw of the various grains. from many
grasses and reeds. and from he WOO
of cyl ress. pine. poplar spruce. hen
lock. basswooi. - can ore aud 9th
trees. Now great mills prepare the
fiber s:ock for paper manufacturers.
who buy it by the ton. in bulk.
Il then work it into hatever shapes
their business requires. As il costs far
less 10 carry chemicals TO the forests
tian it would TO transport the logs
wcod-Tulp es ablishments are gener-
aay located near sources of supply
The chief chemicals are lime. potash.
spda ash. and cousi.c soda. 1hese
aiNalies. dissolved in wafer TO make
the cooking liquids, have been en-
ployed in huge wooden tanks. in
VII .ch, bccause The temperature could
no: be carried above boiling heat, il
was aecessary to continue the cooking
rom two to three DAYS. The prugres
IF invention has recently made it pos
sible 10 greatly reduce the time re.
q.ired for his purpose. The demand
Tor paper in all for;rs f,r old and new
uses is unlimit i. and is daily iucreas-
ing. In no part Of the globe is there
a greater variety of vegetable hbers
tnan in the South, whose c1ne-brakes.
,wamps. forests. aud cotton fields can
furnish iucxhaustib!e quantities for all
time. The cotton la 1tations alone
could probably supply every pulp-mill
iL America with n mater III cheaply
gathered and handled, and containing
n long, strong. beautiful f:bCE Ba'ti.
more .Iourpa. n c1.,..,-,srce
-Carker Gn hotel corrldar) Lets
get out of here, Barker" Barker
What's the matter2" Carker-"Those
swo 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. ."-Detrot Free Press.
"A woman will get uD and tear
lrouni and rant about female suffrage
and demand equal rights with man in
1 torrent of impassioned chest tones.
put when night comes she'll get down
and tremblngly 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
Every body will be compelled to have it.
The messenger boy must go" We
have n great deal of confidence in
science, but we don't believe yet that it
will ever be able to make the messen-
ger boy 90. Boston Post.
And now the Sunday newspapers
have formed trust; and. rs was in
evitable. have raised their prices one
cent If these greedy monopolists
persist in their fiendish design of
wringing foar cents out of the pockets
of the toiling masses, in exchange for
dollars worth of reading, they may
yet find that even n circalation-swearer
will not save them from bankruptcy
Pack.
You don't seem at all cast down
by the length of the sentence the Judge
has given you" said Il sympathetic by
stander to the sad-eyed German who
had just been condemned to twenty
years of servitude in the State prison.
NO" replied the prisoner, wearily, 81
10 not at all it mind. | have thirteen
years the proof-reader on German
newspaper been. SomerUitLe Journal.
-Dame-"You are entirely mistaken
as to the object of the anti-kissing so
ciety. 1t is not intended to discourage
courtship. No, indeed. The object is
to break up the practice of allowing
ministers to kiss brides" Male caller
80, that's il. Are the members of
the society engaged young ladies who
expect shortly to be married." Dame
well, no; tb. MEMBERS are mostly
ministers wivrS& Omaha World. :,