The Planting of the Apple Tree.
BY WIM IAM CULI.KX BRYANT.
Conic, let ua plant the spple tree,
Oravo tlio toiili greensward with tho spstle;
Wide let it" hollow lied bo made;
There gently lay the root", anil there
Sift tho (lark mold with kindly cart*,
And pre it o'or them tenderly;
Aa 'rouud the sleeping infant'* feet
Wo softly fold the cradlo "hoot,
So plaut wo the apple tree.
What plant we in thi* apple tree?
Buds, which tho lirvstli of summer day*
Shall lengthen into leafy sprays;
Hough", where the thrush, with crimson breast,
Shall haunt and sing, aud hide her nest;
Wo plant upon the sunny lea
A shadow for tho noontide hour,
A shelter from tho summer shower,
When wo plant tho apple tree.
What plant wo in this apple tree ?
Sweets for a hundred tlowory springs
To load the May-wind's restless wings.
When, from tho orchard row, ho |inrs
Its fragrance through our open doors;
A world of blossoms for the bee,
Flowers for tho sick girl's silent room.
For tho glad infant sprigs ol bloom.
We plant with the apple tree.
What plant wo in this applo troo !
Fruits that shall swell in sunny Juno,
Aud reddeu in the August noon.
And drop, when gentle airs corno by,
That fan the bluo September aky ;
While children come, with cries of glee
And seek them wbcro tho fragrant grass
Betrays their bod to those who pans,
At tho foot of tho apple tree.
And when, abovo this apple tree.
The winter stars aro glittering bright,
And winds go jowling through tho night,
Girls whose young eyes o'orflow with mirth
Shall peel its fruit by cottage hearth,
And guests in prouder homos shall see
Heaped with the grape of Cintra's vine,
And golden orange of tho line,
The fruit of the apple tree.
The fruitage of this applo tree,
Winds and our tlag of stripe and star
Shall bear to coasts that lio afar,
Where men shall wonder at tho riew,
And ask in what fair groves thoy grow ;
And sojourners beyond tho sea
Shall think of childhood's careless day,
And long, long hours of summer play,
In the shads of the apple tree.
Each year shall give this apple tree
A broader flush of roseate bloom,
A deeper maze of verdurous gloom,
And loosen, when the frost-clouds lower,
Tho crisp brown leaves iu thicker shower.
The years shall come and pass, ut we
Shall hear no longer, where we lie,
The summer songs, the autumn's sigh.
In the bough of the apple tree.
And time shall waste this apple tree,
Oh, whou its aged branches throw
Thin shadows on the ground below,
Shall frand and force and iron will
Oppress the weak and helpless still ?
What shall the tasks of. mercy be,
Amid the toils, the strifos, the tears
Of those who live when length of years
Is wasting this little spple tree f
"Win planted thisold apple troe ?**
The children of that distant day
Thus to some aged man shall say;
And, g7.1 rig on its mossy stem.
The gray-haired man shall answer thstn:
"A poet of the land was he.
Born in the rude but good old times;
Tis said be male some quaint old rhymes
On planting the apple tree."
A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
Itobert Myron was the son of an
English tenant-farmer, who in tho year
1848 found his family eipenscs increas
ing so mncb faster than his income
tbat it was absolutely necessary to do
crease the former, since the latter conld
not bo made larger.
In the hope of being able to assist
his father in some way Robert came to
thiaconntry, and failing to find em
ployment near the metropolis walked
from town to town, nntil when near
Rochester, New York, he was hired as
a farm laborer by Jndge James E.
Berry. During six yoars yonng Myron
worked industrionsly, sending nearly all
of bis earnings to his parents, and then
came the sad news that both father and
mother had died on the same day.
After recovering from this shock it was
bnt natural the yonng man shonld
begin to think of establishing a homo
for himself, and quite as natural that
his love shonld go ont to the daughter
of his employer, who plainly showed
her preference for the yonng man who
had so devoted himself to his parents.
Bnt Jndge Berry, while ho recognized
in Myron an invaluable farm laborer,
had not the same views regarding him
as a son-in-law that Miss Bessie had,
and the consequence was that the lovers,
finding it impossible to change the
father's opinion, resolved to elope and
build np for themselves a home in the
far West.
In 1858, with but a few hundred dol
lars and the judge's curse, the young
eon pie were married, and settled at
Oreen Lake, Michigan, where, at the
beginning of the year 1862, they were
in reasonably prosperous circumstan
ces, with two children to make glad
their hnmble log cahin. Their farm
was situated several miles from any
settlement, and although the Indians
were rising against the whites in many
portions of the State, neither Mr. nor
Mrs. Myron felt any uneasiness, beoause
they believed they bad succeeded in
establishing the most friendly relations
with inch of the " forest children'' as
they came in contact with. Therefore
they were by no means alarmed when
or.n day ilte Indiana stalked gravely
into the cabin jnst as the noonday
in on 1 won being aerved. It hail oveu
been Mr. Myron'a custom to invito
Rnch visitors to partako of food, anil on
this, aa on other occasions, they readily
accepted tho invitation; bnt, greatly to
tho surprise and nuousinees of thoir
host, instead of placing their rifles in
ono corner of the room, as usual, they
held them between thoir knees, tho
muzzles of tho weapons showing just
above the edgo of tho table.
Mr. Myron was too woll versed in
Indian customs not to know that such
action on the part of his guests meant
mischief. With tho view of showing
them that he understood this broach of
hospitality,'and in tho slight liopo of
intimidating thorn, ho arose from the
table, took from tho rack on tho wall
his riflo and fowling piece, anil care
fully examined thorn to show they wero
loaded. Why tho savages did not at
tack him then is one of tho inexplica
ble things in Indian warfare. Instead
of making any hostile demonstrations
they stalked gravely out of tho house,
disappearing behind a clamp of bashes.
For the moment Myron believed ho
had wronged his gnests, and that they
had taken nmbrago at his movements
when their intentions wero peaceful.
Still holding his rifle in his hand,
Myron stepped to the open door for tho
pnrpose of ascertaining whether his
gnests had really departed. When tho
farmer appeared on tho threshold tho
report of a rifle was hoard, and Myron
fell, with a dangerous bnt not necessa
rily fatal wonnd in his side.
Women who live on the border,'.where
they aro constantly menaced by danger,
learn early in life that they must deny
themselves woman's privilego of faint
ing. When Mr. Myron fell, his wife
sprang to his defense rather than assiaV
aneo. To close and barricade windows
and doors was bnt the work of a mo
ment when everything was prepared
for snch occasions, and then the heroic
woman turned her attention to her hus
band and children. The father's wonnd
bled but little, and save to stanch the
blood the devoted wifo conld not aid
him, except by piling tho bedding
aronnd him in snch away that, in a sit
ting posture, he conld face tho closed
door. Tho temporary safety of the
children was secured by fastening them
in tho cellar, where they would be be
yond tho reach of any ballets their late
visitors might send, and after she had
perfected her plan of defense she be
gan to assnme the offensive.
By removing the mail that filled the
crevices of the logs at the end of the
house, loop-holes were formed, and
throngh these the hnsband and wife
began an assault npon their foes. With
his rifle Myron shot ono of the Indians,
and at the same time his wife killed
another with tho fowllng-pi.-ce. IJy
this time the foe, finding their intended
victims more tenacious of life than they
supposed, resorted to stiatagem to ac
complish the massacre. In tho field
was a cart half filled with bar ; in the
stable-yard stood a yoke of oxen quietly
eating. To fasten tho animals to the
cart and not expose themselves to the
deadly aim of those in the honse was a
difficult task, bnt one that tho Indians
finally accomplished. To get tho load
of hay against tho bnilding, that it
might be set on fire, was still moro
difficult, and in this cise nnsnccessfnl,
for before it could be done both hus
band and wife had shot an enemy,
while the fifth and only remaining one
sought safety in precipitate flight.
Each momont the conflict lastod the
hnsband grew weaker, and medical aid
conld not bo procured withont a jour
ney of a hundred and eighty miles. To
traverse this distance there was no
other mode of conveyance than the ox
cart. In this rude vehicle Mrs. Myron
placed her husband and children, and
not once daring that tedious jonrney,
made painfnl by tho suffering of the
man for whom she had braved the
dangers and discomforts of a frontier
life, was a halt made.
At 8L Olond surgical aid was pro
cured, and there, after Mr. Myron's
recovory, he sought work of any kind
that would bring in sufficient for the
anpport of bis family, since the depreda
tions of the Indians had impoverished
him. It was only by the greatest exer
tions that Myron oonld keep bis family
from actual want; and hearing that
laborers were in greater demand at Gape
Girardeau, he, with his wife and chil
dren, embarked on the steamer Tidal
Wave for that place, after having re
mained at St. Cloud newly a year.
The voyage waa never completed,
however, for when Tower Grove, Mis
souri , was reached, a fire broke ont on
the ill-fated steamer, and in a very short
time ahe was barned to the water's edge.
The loss of life was considerable, and
among the missing ones were the two
Myron children.
For the second time Robert Myron
was homeless and penniless, with his
sufferings intensified by the loes of his
children. Perhaps it was fortunate for
him that he wae obliged to work very
hard simply to keep the wolf from the
door, for it invented him from brood-
ing over bin misfortunes, as even n
stronger man might have done.
Daring tho two years that elapsod
after the homing of the Tidal Ware
Robert Myron labored indnntrionaly,
but without huooom, ho far aa the ac
j cumulation of worldly good* was con
cerned; he had been able to j>ay the
rent of a rude cabin three mile from
tho village of Tower Rill, and to fur
nish it scantily. But tho expenscH at
tendant upon tho birth of two children
and his own sovero illness, during which
ho was oonflned to his bod two months,
had exbaUHtod the small fund he had
succeeded in saving to enable him tx
romovo to Cape Girardeau.
Then came a time when ho oonld no
longer find employment near his
wretched homo, and he sought it some
miles up the rivor, going and returning
\ oach day in a small boat. Even then it
| appeared that misfortnno was not
wearied with pursuing him, or ono
night whon returning from his. work a
storm came up, which overturned his
frail skiff, und, nearly exhausted, he
was thrown upon a narrow bar of sand
that mado out from the bank of the
river at the spot where the Tidal Wave
was bnrnod. On this frail aßd treach
erons foot hold ho managed to remain
during tho night, in full sight of the
town, but nuable to attract attention
to his desperato condition.
Tho dawn of day revealed still more
horrors, for close beside him, having
evidently l>een unearthed by tho waves,
was the skeleton of a human being. At
first Myron felt that fear which teems
to be natural in man when ho sees the
deserted tenement of one of his kind ;
but tho reeking-place which tho waves
gavo to the living and tho dead was so
small that ho was obliged to remain
almost in actual contact with the yellow
bones. AH ho sat by the skeleton wait
ing for help from tho shore, which
seemed so tardy in coming, ho saw
about tho nlm of tho flesh I ess frame a
leather belt. Curiosity overcame his
horror, and, unfastening the belt, ho
found within it gold coin to tho amount
of five thousand dollars.
That Robert Myron was in a fever of
excitement hardly needs to bo told. lie
had struggled to the full strength of
man many years, and was hardly more
than a pauper whon ho should have had
at least a spot of God's footstool he
could call his own. Tho dead had
brought him what the living had re
fused. To take the gold for his own
purposes seemed a theft, and yet he
who had fastened it about his body
could no longer use it. Too straggle
Iwtween his conscience and his necessity
was a long one; but when those who
came to rescue him arrived at the aand
bar they fonnd him with a skeleton, on
which nothing oonld bo seen, and no
one could have fancied that tho half
drowned man had found a treasure.
That the banes were those of one of
the passengers of tho Tidal Wavo no
one donbted, and they were given a
resting place among tho nameless
graves of thoso who had lost their lives
in tho disaster. So ono save Robert
Myron and his wife know of tho monoy.
licit, or that on the inside of it, cat
deep in the thick lexther, was the uumo
" Henry Parks."
Bat Myron, having his money, did
not daro to use it oponly lost people
shonld question how ho got it. He had
agreed with his wife that thoy shonld
use tho gold for their own benoflt, but
do it with a view of roturning it if they
should ovor find tho deal man's heirs.
This he hoped to do by making such
investments as could lo readily realised
upon so that they might show thorn
selves to be good, even if solf-eloctod,
stewards
The cabin thoy lived in and tho five
acres of land surrounding it was for
salo at a price below its real value.
Myron represented to the owner that,
despite appearances, he had succeeded
in saving a small amount of money—
about half the price asked—and offered
to bay it if hi* note would be accept
ed fur the balance. The bargain
was made, and Myron atill continued
to work by the day for auy one who
wonld hire him, tilling his own farm
when he oonld fln l no other work.
Then he invested in a very small way
in stock, buying when he conld get de
cided bargains only. Tear by year he
added to his possessions, and his neigh
bors called him a "thrifty" man.
All his investments were good ones,
since none were made save with a view
of converting everything into cssh at a
moment's notice if neoeesary, and Rob
ert Myron became a wealthy man. As
is usual, with wealth came the respect
of his neighbors who, to show their
appreciation of money, elected him to
the office of county judge
Daring the year 1870 the inhabitant#
of Tower Hill witneeeed the deetrno
tion of another steamer by fire at almost
the exact place where the Tidal Wave
went down. Among all tboee men who
labored to save life none was more ac
tive than Robert Myron, and his house
was converted into n hospital for the
reoeption of tboee who were injnred,
but saved from death
Mrs. Myron was as earnest in her ef
forts to comfort the distressed people
as was her husband, and her labor was
signally rewarded by finding among
the nnfortnnato ones whom she was
nursing her father, whom she had not
heard from since the day she loft
his homo to fonnd another with the
ono man she loved above all others.
Tho danghter's heart was mado still
more glad when the old gentleman
told hor and hor husband that ho had
Ix-on searching for them several months
in the hope of inducing them to'return
to his lonely home or allow him to re
main with them.
Then ho told a strange story, and
one wliioh lifted a load that had grown
heavier with oach succeeding year from
his son-in-law's heart.
In 1861 Mrs. Myron's annt had died,
bequeathing to hor niooo thesnm of five
thousand dollars. Jndgo Berry, half
relenting that ho had not looked with
favor npon his danghter's marriage, had
sent his clerk to carry to hor this legacy.
The messenger had written to his em
ployer from Ht. Cloud in 1862, staling
that he had traced Mr. and Mrs. Myron
to that place, hut that from there they
had gone, as ho had reason to belie ve,
to Capo Girardeau, which place he was
about to start for in tho steamer Tidal
Wave. From that time Mr. Berry had
never hoard from his elerk, and he be
lieved he had lost his life when the
steamer was bnrnod.
As tho old gentleman finishod his
story, the husliand and wife gazed at
each other with an al most despairing
hope in their oyes, and it was only with
tho greatest difficulty Judge Myron
oonld ask the question, "What was the
man's name ?"
" Henry Parks."
The load was lifted for evermore ; the
money which they telieved was another's
belonged rightfully to them ; the in
vestments made with a view to being
able to restore tho principal at any time
insured tbair own prosperity, and by
purloining their own from the dead
they had honestly relieved themselves
from the thralldom o! poverty.—Har
jytr* Ilatur.
CLIITINUS FOR TIIE CURIOUS.
The first grain elevators of America
were bnilt in Chicago eleven years
ago.
Hon thorn Rnssia is the chief sonrce
of the salt supply to the other govern
ments of the empire.
The farm ,animals of Great Britain
represent abont one-half the total value
of those of the United Htatos.
The national library of Mexico is rc
ported to be in a deplorable state,
thousands of books lying about in con
fusion.
Mounds have t>een found in the
Pyrenees as distinct in their resem
blanoc to animal forms as any Ameri
can mounds.
The custom of throwing a shoe after
a bride comes from the Jewish custom
of handing a shoe to a purchaser of
land after the completion of tho bar
gain.
The pine needles of the Hilesian for
ests have been converted into forest
wool, which, besides being efficacious
in oases of rheumatism, can be curled,
felted and woven.
The edible oyster attains its full
growth only in the waters of the Amer
ican coast, and its representative in
Great Britain dwindles down to a small,
coppery flavored bivalve.
I a some parts o! Germany a carious
custom exists. The peasantry who
possess a bit of lan l, howover small,
ncvor enter a chnrsh wit hont having a
nosegav in their hand. Tb ey thus
show that they claim the consideration
duo to those who possoss some property
in tho parish.
The megapod of the East Indies
bnilds an artificial mold in which its
eggs are deposited to be hatched. The
mounds are sometimes fourteen feet
high, with a circumference of 150 feet,
and the decay of tho vegetable matter
of which they are composed produces
an artificial warmth sufficient to hatch
the eggs.
Balloonist* have a unique method of
taking " soundings" to learn their dis
tance from the earth when traveling in
the air at night. A loud ahont is given
and the seoodds are oounted until the
echo from tho ground is heard. From
the time required for the retnrn of the
round It is easy to compute the height
of the balloon.
Horseflesh is growing in favor in
Paris. In 1875 the consumption there
wm 7,000 horses and ten donkeys or
mnles; in 1880 9,000 horses and 320
donkeys or mules, and in 1881 9,300
horses and 400 donkeys or males. There
are now forty horse butcheries In Paris.
Bo microscopical ly perfect is the
watch-makiug machinery now in use
that screws are cut with nearly six
hundred threads to the inch—though
the finest used in the watoh baa two
hundred and fifty. These threads are
invisible to the naked eye, and it takes
144,000 of the screws to weigh a pound,
their value being sis pounds of pure
gold.
A life of General Grant has been
printed in Japan. # lt ia seven volumes
In length.
LARILS' DEPARTMENT.
Kffl raUTura.
A novel style of arranging thecoiffnre
is as follows : The whole of the hair
is brongbt hack and tied low in the
neok. It is then divide! evenly and
formed into two separate plaits. Tho
front hair being drawn back forms a
low ridge where the forehead and hair
meet. At the back of this ridge one of
tho plaited strands of hair goes en
circling the head, lying quite flat, as in
the pictures of Bappbo. Tho other
strand is arranged in a low knot behind,
and holds tho ends of the braid which
encircles tho head. For fnll-dress
occasions fine pearls are woven in these
plaits.
The I.Rundri-M <{■•*■> f Parla.
The laundresses of Paris dnly elected
their queens last month, one for each
district, and on Miil-Lent day their
majesties were solemnly conducted
through tho different quarters of tho
city, crowned with flowers and enthroned
on tho biggest and most ornamental
vehicles to be obtained for love or
money. The laundresses form an im
portant guild, the annual receipts for
laundering in Pans being set at no less
than $12,000,000, of which about $3,000,-
000 are divided among tho 5,000 lann
drios in the city, the remainder going
to the great suburban establishments,
which employ steam engines and soores
of operatives. Tho laundresses of the
French capital have figured in politics,
as witness their solemn appoarance by
delegates before the convention, Febru
ary 21, 179.3, to protest against forestall
ing, and they recall with pride the fact
that Bcxtus V.'s sister was a laundress,
and that tho poet [Dafrevny espoused
his washerwoman, to say nothing of the
j modern instance of the 'imperial favor
alighting npon Marguerite Belangerc
! the Anadyomennof the washtnb—Venus
risen from the snds.
A Nrrnf al ibr Users.
A young lady at the opera in Wash
ington, aitting in front of a young
spooney and a girl in a Gainsborough
hat, having enjoyed a delicious treat,
narrates the fallowing scene, more
realistic than any mk—balieve business
on the stage:
The girl—Oh! I wrote snch a long
letter home, to-day—seven pages.
He—What! seven *
She—Yes, and the postman didn't
come, and I opened it and wrote seven
more.
Ho—l wish yon'd write me a letter.
Bbs (tenderly)— Why, what could I
: write ?
Ho—You needn't write but three
1 words.
Hhe—Three words? Whet can they
' be?
He—Three nice little words.
She—Oh, my! Ain't you strange?
This knocks the yonng man out of
I time for a minute, and daring that
period th n music had a chance. But be
oomes up again smiling, a little dis
; figured, but still in the ring.
He—Oh I yon know.
Bhe No I indeed I don't.
He—Well, I'll tell you some other
time.
Tb<- chorus comes down toward the
foot-lights with unmistakable intent to
howl, and daring the preliminary
fiddling the not too-curions-bat- ut
curiously-enough yonng girl says, with
a sweetly shrinking timidity:
j "Can t you tell me while they're
singing ?"
j Then a fiendishVrell from the chorus
l breaks off shorter than conld possibly
lie anticipate*], and his voice is heard
with startling distinctness :
" I love yon. Couldn't yon write
that r
"Oh! my, yes, and ever'so much
more."
And then the ten or clutches the prims
donna by the back hair and yells bloody
murder into ber right eyebrow, and the
yonng man and the yonng woman lean
so hard on the arm of the orchestra
chair that her vaccination mark blushes
like an aurora boroalis.
White camels' hair ia much used for
tea gowns.
Ribbons are again fashionable for
neck wear.
Lace ia worn with everything and on
•very thing.
Historical and picturuequej ooatumee
grow in favor.
Brocaded China crape'appears among
late noveltiea.
It ia the fashion'to .tie the neck rib
bon on one aide.
Hip draperies and tnnica are much
tuoked and ganged.
In spite of effort* to make all evening
dresses abort, trains are worn exten
si rely.
The hair, to be fashionably dressed,
mnat fall low on the neek and also on
the brow.
Pale grey and terra ootta, pale bine
and canary yellow.are favorite oombtna
tiona for tea gowns.
Hideous curtain panders disfigure a
large proportion of the Paris-made
dresses of this season. '
A loose, puffed drapery just below
the hip* all around the aldrt appears ia
handsome dresses for children.
Tbe nolora for neek ribbon* are torn
ootta, aurora pink, porcelain bine, na-
Liogany, ruby and cardinal red.
Koilor suit* of nary bine flannel fat
girl*' wear are trimmed with military
gold braid and umalJ round gold but
ton*.
Hone color and terra ootta, maroon
and copper oolor are favorite combina
tion* of oolor in late importations of
hosiery.
Ivory wbite Breton and Moreaqao
lace* are combined with the heavy ecru
ficelle or Medici laoes in forming neck
lingerie.
Among the growing innovation* in
modern fashion* is tbe wearing of
velvet in all seasons, not excepting
midsummer.
Dressmakers exercise their ingenuity
thia aeaaon in the creation of all norfca
of trimmings for ,be .bottom cf tha
. skirts of dresses.
The long plain skirt of some rich,
heavy stuff, with a box plaited ruche at
tbe bottom, worn with a panit-r bodioe,
gain* ground every day.
Combination* of red and black, ma
roon and terra ootta, greyhound blue
and water blue appear in hat*, bonnets,
and in children'* garment*.
Little children of six years and under
will wear next summer hat* with wide
round brims, turned up in front, wl
on them an ostrich plume or medium
sited fancy feather.
The agreeable f atare of summer
style* are the prevalence of short
round skirts, the absence of bustles,
the variety in shapes of hats and boa
nets, in costumes and colors.
Neck ribbons are from one to two
inches wide, and are worn around the
neck inside the dress collar and oat
side the standing linen collar. Than
they arc tied in a long-looped bow,
with longer ends.
In spit* of the large importations of
elaborate and extremely deoonpe
dresses, composed of two or several
fabrics, plain co*tum<-s, all of one stuH
and with but little trimming, are seen
everywhere, and are most worn by tbe
women who are oonaidered authority in
matters of dres* and fashion.
Lace necklets sre s novelty intro
duced to be worn with the bodioe open
in the neck. They are made of duoh
ease or round point lace, and consist of
s band of insertion edged on both sides
with narrow lace; thia band goes round
the throat. In front are pendants of
; lace in medallion patterns. The bend
and pendants are densely covered with
(>e*rl beads and sparkling crystal*.
The most fashionable styles in walk
ing costume* are those which show a
perfectly plain skirt formed of some
! rich material, gored tn French fashion,
thus giving it the cachet seen upon no
other skirt. Around the bottom is
placed a full "rampant" outstanding
ruche, which constitutes tbe only trim
ming. Abore this is worn a short polo
naise with full short ponfs at the ride, or
a pointed bodice and tunic with paniera.
The Paper Wf CK.
Paper ear wheels are composed en
tirely of paper rings pressed together
under s weight of six tons, and thou
fastened by means of bolts, and steel
tires pnt on them, when they ate reedy
| for use. Laid loosely the rings stack as
high as the shoulders of an ordinary
man. Under treatment they sink to the
thickness re tired. If the tire shonld
wear or fall off the wheel, or the train
ran from the track, there would be no
danger of their breaking, as they are
rery flexible and wonld spring.
A paper ball can be rendered so solid
that nothing bnt a diamond tool an
cause an indentation into it. At the
mill is a square block of compressed
j paper fastened on a turning lathe and
so hard that if a fine steel chisel is held
against it when it is moving, instead of
cutting the paper it will break the chisel
into a hundred piecea. The strength is
astonishing. Yon can take a£s note of
the Hank of England, twist it into •
kind of rope, suspend 339 pounds upon
one end of it and not injure it in the
slightest degree.
Bath-tuba and pots are formed by
compressing the paper made of linea
fibers snd annealed—that is, painted
j with a composition which becomes a
| part thereof and is fireproof The tubs
last indefinitely, never leak, and put la
the fire will not burn np. Yon can best
on them with a hammer and not injure
them.
Plates compressed and annealed are
very durable. You cannot only wash
them, but drop them upon the floor
and stand upon them. The fork oan be
used for any practical purpose, and the
knife can always be kept sharp.
Paper can be substituted for weed
converted into picture frame* sue
colored like walnut, cherry and UK
tike. Bedsteads are fashioned the mmt
as car wheels, only of long stripe la
stead of rings. They are very beauti
ful and lasting. Cooking or hnatrag
stoves are also annealed, and it is im
possible to barn item out. They aaa
less oovtly than iron. A house can
literally be constructed of and furnished
with every conveniene* in paper.