Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-15
5s 1.-THE PAPER ACT?
xe,uce PULP eAHE INTO USE THERE
 HAVE BEEN MANY CHANGES.

r;reproof shirt Bosoms That Don't
 uave to Re Washed.
 Without steam and railways modern .oo;sty would undoubtedly exist. But .~bat state of intellectual darkness '~o,ld be that of civilized mankind ,vitbout paper and the secret of its man. ,,faoturel For many years the rag met ou demands of the paper Industry. Tha increasing dieelsi,7 0f uses to which raner and paper pulp have been put in sse last decade have made 1t necessary e, manufacturers to cast about for more effective elementary substances. Boots, money, boats, gas pigs, impermeabls casks toys, bottles, pipes, floors, doors, ceilings, architectural ornaments, roof ino. chimneys and even complete fire- !. ,roof houses are HOW made of paper. Many claim that it will eventually SUD- riant wood, for it will neither crack nor warp. It can be triturated, put un- der great pressure and subjected to cer- tain chemical treatment and will then take high polish and will resist the ef. feets of fire better than any otter ma tarial known Paper is gradually SUD- nlauting metal in certain lines. Loco- motive wheels have been made of it fer several years, and even rails for rail- roads. The next progressive step will be to nse it for the manufacture of ord nance. which is net by any means re. mote possibility. Paper has largely talk . on the place of linen. We have papar collars and cuffs and blankets. An in- peuious inventor has devised paper shirt bosom, which can be torn off like inc pages from q calendar, thns enabling A the wearer 10 have clean shirt front as often as he desires It is only mat terof time before cloths, dressing gowns and entire suits of clothes will be made from paper. The soldiers of the Japanese army wore paper trousers and jerseys during thei- famous winter campaign.
 Wood pulp is the most effective sub stitute for rags il the manufacture of paper Nra.lv every species of wood can bs Esed. < .1o .i.4ds yield more than others Mof pulp can be got from will low and chestnut than from walnut. Different woods give various qualities and effects Aspen will yield I very white paper, but defective in soIidity, and is therefore mixed with fir This latter wood is most generally used. 1t was first imported from the Black forest. in Germany The chief supply Is now obtained in Norway and Finland, in the form of blanks or poles, never exceeding feet or inches.
 For the last half century the world 5 production of paper has increased ten fold. In 1850 t was 22l, ,o00 metria tons. The latest recent estimate was 100000 metric tons. The European manufacturers are suffering from glut in production. The price of paper has
 allen one third. while wages have dou-
 led. The European plants are not SC mogressiye as those in this country. They depend too much upon manual la bor In the United States the manufae- turers have substituted machinery for hand work, and as result of the de- crease in the number of their employees arc enabled to pay high wages.
 Attention has recently been called to the utility of little known species of a paper called the boabab, or Ansonia. a IL IS made from the wood of the boabab 5 tree, which is native of west Africa, a snd is known there as the monkey bread tree. It is found in Abyssinia. Senegal and south of Coyo river It is 4 Of low growth and has very thick A trunk While it rarely attains a height Of 20 feet, the trunk is usually 20 to 20 @ ieet ln diameter Tho branches are pen @ dulous and bear an edible fruit The in- her bark of this tree is very fibrous. II li used for making superior wrapper pa
 pers, which have great tenacity. When
 iae Inner bark is stripped from the tree
 2 ffeSh growth supplsnts that taken
 away, and ill couple of years the tree
 sagaiG ID uarmal condition The bark
 s speeled off bu1 once in four years.
 The latest addition to the paper in
 uustry IS sanitary note paper which I ' Claimed to be germproof. Il has long
 seeh known that letters frequently # spfead Infectious diseases by means of 3 'pe germs that contaminste the paper
 on English firm has produced a paper \ aa'eh IS impregnated with an antiseptic
 .aOstanee which kills all germs that 2 ulay come in contact with the paper. If
 ~'s paper proves to be what the proprie-
 .Ols clam, 1t is certainly meritorious
 aussntl5n s.. and will become generally
 sn ss'a py hospitals anl daring the rage of
 salnese and Japanese papers have
 ,s sus peen noted for their quality. It has
 'Nently been asoertained, however, that
 p' l''n hner grades are produced in Korea
 yas va0 eminent authority states that "the
 svlsah paper exeels the vory best that
 aau ,'laae h China and Japan. It is
 NSa''uiactured NJ entirely by manual labor.
 IS la. machinery whatever is employed.
 p,a. sae better grades the bark of the
 eotha usssonetia papyrifera is used. This is
 ,ls lieu li the spring of the ypar. It is