Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Artificial Production. [ARTICLE]

Artificial Production.

STS K* ofgaa- TvSpewajrs not tbrnhuge marine Wag teea fa the sea tortoise will bepozaaed lean eagerly far ita carapace, the oatriehea of the desert be leas aoawht after: and even tho great pachyderms of India and Central Africa eaa be spared to be more oaeAtßy employed in extending the march of commerce. Under our enlightened civilization we can new manufacture our own whalebone, coral, tortoise shell, ivory, and feathers, without the need of penetrating into wild jungles and arctic or tropical seas for our supplies. The extinction of whalebone in coaomeree will not deprive os of our umbrellas, or the female sex of their parasols and corset Wkv have been converted into wallosin, and born shaped into pliable booes, while steel rihs also do doty effectually for baleen. In feet, be adds, there is no end to the artificial prodnetiooa, and the list might be extended iadednitely, including artifical ice, which renders os independent of King Frost; artificial sngar, which we can make from starch or rags; artificial fruit essences, artificial horn from seaweed, artificial wood from compressed sawdust or straw, artificial leather from old scraps of the leather doth, artificial parchment from paper chemically treated with sulphuric acid, and as hides for leather become more in layjjhMiflS’Lrkiiaßt^ irenpwwn, the porpoias and other sea man mals, and dahea.