Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Famine In Wrapping Paper. [ARTICLE]

Famine In Wrapping Paper.

A curious famine is prevailing in some sect!ons of Florida. It is a famine in wrapping paper. There is a large demand tor it iiy fruit-growers and shippers, and at several important shipping points the supply is entirely exhausted, and fruit is being shipped without wrapping. Manufactures in Connecticut have received Orders by telegraph, but it will*be some time before any shipment can reach the inteilor points where it is most needed. A plan for rendering pap'er as tough as wood or leather has been recently introduced on the Continent; it consists in mixing chloride of zinc with the pulp in the cour.-e of manufacture. It has been found that the greater the degree of concentration of the zinc solution the greater will be the toughness of the paper. It can be used for making boxes, comb’, for roofing, and even for making boat •.