Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1909 — The Wonders of Papermaking. [ARTICLE]

The Wonders of Papermaking.

It may surprise the boys and girls to hear that there are more than 2.000 patents relating to the manufacture of paper, and perhaps it may surprise them even more to bear how many things may be used to make paper of. Following are some of them: The leaves of trees, the wood of trees, hop plants, beau stalks, pea vines, the trunks and stems of Indian corn, every variety of grain, moss, clover and timothy hay, more than 100 kinds of grass, straw and cocoanut fiber, fresh water weeds and seaweeds, sawdust, shavings and asbestus, thistles and thistledown, banana skins, tobacco stalks, tanbark. hair, wool, fur and old sacking or bagging, in fact, there seems to be scarcely anything that may not be used In the process.—Chicago News. Conundrums. Why should a fisherman be very wealthy? Because his is all net profit. Why is your eye like a man being flogged? it is under the How do you account for the water in a watermelon? By recalling that it was planted in the spring How many make a million? Very few. What is the difference between an Indian and an Irishman? One smokes the pipe of peace* and the other smokes a piece of pipe. Why are cats like unskilled surgeons? Because they mew-till-late and destroy patients (patience). When may a chair be said to dislike you? When it can’t bear you. Wbat should you do to it? Cane it. Why is a proud girl like a music box? She is full of airs.