Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1879 — Wisconsin Paper Plant. [ARTICLE]

Wisconsin Paper Plant.

A curious plant has been discovered in Wisconsin, which .produces a kind of cotton and flax from the same stalk. It has already been woven into fabrics, and as an article that will make as good cloth as can be made from this plant will make good paper, it has been called the paper plant. It can be planted in the spring and cut in the fall or winter. It bleaches itself white as it stands, and will yield at least three or four tons, to the acre. From a single plant that was transplanted last spring grew twenty large stalks, with 305 pods (containing the cotton), with at feast p ixty seeds in each. From its root was obtained seven ounces of pure cotton and over half a pound of flax. It is a very heavy plant and grows from six to seven feet nigh.

Mrs. Ezra Estes, of Rantoul, Ills., and her three children, were badly poisoned on Saturday. She was given, by a mistake of the druggist, extract of belladonna, instead of extract of dandelion. They all partook of the deadly poison, mid for hoars lay in convulsions, having to te held down by force. Dobing the first twelve weeks of the current fiscal year, embracing the period from July 1 to September 20, the imports of specie at New York exceeded the exports by $25,806,314. . Green sage put in a closet will clear it of red Mite.