The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-13
PAPER AND PAPER MAKING
the Galveston News.

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From the Galveston News.
After the rags used in the nanh-
facture of paper have been gouhd
to a pulp, caustic I've is mixed with
the product, in order to redue the
small, hard particles that are ,ound
in the pulp, and which, If left, would
make knots in the paper.
Straw intended for the maplfac-
ture of paper is chopped very fine
and boiled a long time at a high tenn
rerature with caustic soda in order
to remove the res'nous and gunmy
elements contained in the material,
which would impair the quality OF
the product.
In machine sizing" that 10 the
sizing of paper by a machine process,
a solution of gelatine is employed.
The quality of the gelatine used de-
ponds upon the kind o: Taper to be
made. For the finest qualities Of
note paper the best grades Of gela-
tine must be employed.
The cane which grows in "brakes''
along the Southern Mississippi, in
Alabama, Georgia, Florida and al
most all the southern states is capa-
BILE of being manufactured into an
excellent article of paper, and a
n1mber of factories have been
started which make cane paper.
Fine and fir have long hbers,
exceedingly well adapted to the use
of the Taper maker, but the resin
GUS substances contained in these
woods form SO large a percentageaoi
the COM osition and are 80 difficult
of removal that the paper makers
are COM elied to use other ~varletiss
The first water mark used, 80 fal
as known, is that of Tates in 14sS
1t was an eight pointed star in
double circle. Fancy prices r nov
paid for specimens of Tates' paper
and it is supposed that the demand
has created a supply and that specl
mems have been manufactured close
Iy resembling the original.
The rags used in the manufactur,
of paper are first placed in the cyl
indrical machine, called a thrasher
which shakes them violently, in or
der to separate as far as possible a.
foreign substances; they r thei
sorted, according to texture, fbe.
and color, after which they ar,
placed in machines, which cut o
tear them into very fine short fla
ments.
Foolscap pager takes its nam,
|, from the water marks introduced b.
|, the paper makers during the Englisl
, Commonwealth. Previous to tina
, time this size of paper had born
as q water mark a crown, but afte
the overthrow and execution o
Charles I, the parliament, in CON
tempt and %derision, ordered tn
, crown to be removed and q fool
cap and bells to be substituted.
The ancient MeIicans made
, good article of paper from the pit,
of the maguey plant. By pressur
b the fbers were condensed int
q t~olerably strong fabric, which re
ceived ink and color very we'll. Ma
ny 9 ecimens Of the Mexican pa Q
are to be found in the worlds muse
t ums, and in the National Library l
Q the city Of Mexico there are grea
numbers of manuscri to and docu
It ments composed of this paper.
d The paper used in American ma
tional bank notes and greenbacks
Of a superior quality, and by q secrt
process minute threads OF red an
blue silk are distributed over th
surface, the incorporation of thes
with the fabric being an additions
:, safeguard against counterfeitinl
Counterfeiters have been able to In
itate almost every other peculii
feature of the bank note, but hay
= never succeeded with the threads.
u Patents have been taken out Il
= the manufacture Of paper from
" very great variety Of substance
- among them being acacia, althae
- aloe, artichoke, as aragus, aspe
=. bamboo, banana sskin, bass WOO
" bean vines, blue grass, broom cor
: buckwheat straw, bulrushes, can
cattail, cedar, china grass, clemati
clover, corn husks, cotton, cou,
" grass, cork, elder, elm, espar
- grass, ferns, fir, flags, flax, Crap.
:. vine, grasses, hemp, hop, chestnu
indigo, iuts, mulberry bark, o.
oakum, oat straw, palm, palmett
I'd pampas grass, papyrus pea, pali
rs plantain, poplar, potato rags, reed
" rice straw, rope, sedge grass, ~
lie silk, sorghum, spruce, thistles, =
sn bacco, wheat straw, waste paps
willow and wool.