Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1883 — Hardwood Lumber. [ARTICLE]

Hardwood Lumber.

The Prairie Farmer calls attention to the fact that several kinds of hardwood lumber are gradually coming into use, which a few years? ago were unnoticed. Beech is one of them. It is cheap Rnd abundant, while .the more popular hardwoods are becoming comparatively scarce and consequently high-priced. Beech has a fine grain, is quite durable, and is used in the manufacture of school and church furniture, chairs, and to a certain extent in furniture. The red variety has a some appearance, and can be made to imitate cherry. ’ In the German Empire there are sixty manufactories of playing cards, which produced during the last fiscal year 3,264,34 V packs of less than thirtysix cards each, and 1,058;‘826 packs of more than thirty-six cards each. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell is collecting books, pamphlets, etc., on electricity, and preparing k bibliography of the sciqype. He has already indexed the titles of more than 40,000 works. ; Flcbence, Ga_—Dr. W. B, Prather, says: ‘Brown’s Iron Bitters have given satisfaction in every instance I have Mho wn it used.”

“Dudek & Co.” is |he sigil of a firm in New York. * Every night the sign is covered with a Wire screen to protect it from muftijtnion. “The boys try to make us a company of dudes by removing the *n’ ” said a member of the firm.