The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

lighter than those made of wood. They are stronger and are rot affected by the wind and rain and other causes that shorten the life of the ordinary pole
 The Europeans are making eoffins of wood cloth. Such collins take a high polish and look as well as the wood ones; they are much less expensive. The Ger mans have been trying to make cannon cut of pulp. using. a steel core and bind ing the exterior with five layers of metal wire. Matches are made of wood puIp. and we have wood pulp pencils in which the paper Is eoiled round the lead. A Frenchman has invented J process of making paper thread, and paper thread has been woven in Saxony for. 10 years or more. Some English chemists have h. vented a waterproof paint of this mate rial. They spray it over the buildings and it is used to cover large surfaces. We have also paper window panes made in France, and paper cuspidors are to be found everywhere. Paper pails, flower pots and furniture, including beds, tables and chairs, are among the possibilities of the future
 Paper twine became common in the United States after the Civil war and we have today a dozen different ma chimes on the market for twisting paper into twines and rope. Gernahy makes bags of paper yarn, and -the United states has line of floor coverings made of paper. Paper twisting is divided into two operations. The first is taking the big wood pulp rolls which weigh from SGJ to 700lpounds and sitting them into narrow strips of various widths. They are then rewound on solid disks, waiting for the paper twister. The next process is twisting the paper for which there are several different types of machines, all more or less complicated. The best paper yarns of today are those made in Jar pan. They are from a bamboo paper so fine that the yarn fvom it is said to be equal in strength to that made from sea island cotton. Japan is also produc- ing paper ribbons and quilting materials and towels using a paper warp and linen or cotton filling. England, Norway, Swe- den and Germany all have their paper specialties, and in fact there are hun dreds of products made from wood pulp.
 Walking the other day through the woods of my mountain farm, in Virginia, l found fine specimen of the first wood pulp ever manufactured. It was 8 de- Serted hornets nest, twice as big around as my head. It was light gray in color, and its outer walls were layers of pulp felted together like paper. The interior was divided into compartments with floors of pulp filled with comb and sup ported by pulp columns with passages between. The hornet, wasp and other insects were among the first paper mak- CTS, and it was from them that man got his first ideas of grinding up wood to yrnoI oI-n I,,1... te, nl.1. f1xd woody fibers, and by the aid of their saliva make them into pulp which is almost as firm as that on which this letter is printed. Some insects make holes in the ground and line them with paper, and the tree-wasps have nests which are for allN the world like papier-mache. There is a wasp in South America named chartergus which makes a huge nest, which hangs from the bough of a tree. The pulp is tough and the outer covering looks like white card board. It is durable and withstands the tropical sun and rain. The interior is ar ranged in galleries of comb shaped like