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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1585, 15 April 1887, Page 5

The butcher and the buHerman, who occasionally | grumble at the present price of waste paper, will I have to pay a bigger figure for that useful article in I a few years. Paper is rapidly taking the place of J wood, and in a large decree also of metal and stonei wßre, and the discarded newspapers which are now j boiiji!.!; up for the snopkeepti's use will be re--1 wiped and put to nool*>r ns««. Already in America, ).it!is, pots, plates, knives, forks, stoves, and even j steam engine? made of paper are in general use. | The bronze, figures an I cru?nieiits which adorn artistic and refined households arc made of paper, ; or at any ralr> a lnateiiai in which paper plays the j more important part. To-day a man may wear paper shoes and ha!s and clothes generally. He m«y "'""P in a paper bed, v armed by paper blankets, in a room carpeted by piper: nnd he may wash in a paper bowl, live in a paper house, ride in a p.iiH-r car. or in cars of pap»r. running on paper , rail". H« can nail in a paper boat, and aloft lin a ]M»per balloon. He may eat wis It paj>er knives J aii.l hnks ami spoous. His food m«y ne served on i a jwuer table and lie may sit t.* it 011 a paper chair. ; Ail this is 110 exaggeration. The future of paper as i a factor in civilisation is aquantity as.yct utuoalised and undreamed up.