PAPER POSSIBILITIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1635, 13 August 1887, Page 2

PAPER POSSIBILITIES.

There art a few things that cannot now be made oat of paper. Its adaptability is astonishing, and the wildest speculations as to its future are excusable when we it fl^ofc upon the present tues of this material. Aa the delicate sobatance can be made to Berve for steel or Iron, it is not difficult to understand how paper is, for many purposes, now taking the place of wood. Mention was before made of a new mill m Sweden for the manfacture of paper from moss. Paper of different thickness, and pasteboard made of the white moss have already been shown, the latter even m sheets threequarters of an inch thlok. It is aJ' hard as wood and oan be easily painted and piliahed. It has all the good qualities, but none of the defects of the wood. Tht pasteboard, on consequently be used for door and window flames, architectural ornaments and all kinds of furniture. Paper, made frcra strong fibres, suoh as linen, oan, m fact, be compressed into a Bubatapco so hard that it can be hardly scratched. As houses have been made of this novel building materiil, so almost everything requisite to complete and furnish a residence has been since m»nu» factured of paper. After the Breslau fire-proof chimney, it is quite possible, for instance, that cooking or heating stoves can be made of similar materials. These paper stoves can be annealed ; that is, painted over with a composition which becomes part of the paper and la fire proof. It is aaid to be impossible to burn it oat, and they are much cheaper th»n iron stoves. BUhs, tub*, and pots, are made m the same manner by com* pressing the paper made of linen fibred and annealing. The tubs, we are assured will last for ever and not leak. Plaoad on the fire they will not barn ap and It Is almoßt impossible to break or Injure them. Our rooms oan be floored with this wonderfully accommodating material, as proven by the Indianopolis skatingrink

ft may here ba mentioned that orac.k« la floors around tha skirting-hoard qf other parts of a room may be neatly and permanently filled by thoroughly toaktag ! newspapers m paste made of one pound of fl mr, three quarts of water and a tablespoonfal of alum, thoroughly boiled and mix 3d. The mixture will be about as thick as pnlty aud may be forced into the cracks with a caae-knife, It wftl harden ltko paper niache doors, which one would think were polished mahogany but they Bwing so lightly, and are free from swalling, cracking or warping; are composed each of two thick paper boards stamped aud moulded into pannels njad glued together with glue and potaih and then rolled through he§vy rollers. doors are §rat covered with a waterproof coating, then painted and varnished and hung m the ordinary way. Few ptnoni can detect that they are not made of wood, particularly when u.s«d ai sliding doprs,