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find their way back to the paper-mills, to be re-made 

 either into paper or papier mdc/te, in which latter manu- 

 facture no paper of any kind comes amiss. Tons of old 

 account-books, bankers' books, and of ledgers ; cuttings of 

 bookbinders, of paste-board makers, of envelope- and pocket- 

 book-makers, of print-sellers, of paper-hangers, &c., are dis- 

 posed of for this purpose, and reappear as cornices, picture- 

 frames, bulk-heads, cabin partitions, pianoforte-cases, chairs, 

 tables, &c., not to mention the thousands of little fancy 

 articles which are made of papier mdc/ie. 



There are three kinds of papier m&che: a sort of 

 pasteboard, in which sheets of paper are merely pasted 

 together, which is much used for tea-trays ; a more solid 

 kind, in which the paper is pressed until it becomes 

 hard enough to take a polish ; and a third variety, in which 

 the paper is reduced to a pulp, in which condition it may 

 be moulded into any shape that may be desired. 



Paper, in the form of papier m&che, is daily being 

 applied to fresh uses. Not long ago a daily paper an- 

 nounced that a factory chimney had been made of it. 

 In America it has been used for the rails of railroads, the 

 pulp being, it is said, as solid as metal, much more durable, 

 and less influenced by atmospheric changes than iron or 

 steel. Pasteboard wheels, made of equal parts of wood-pulp 

 and straw, have been used exclusively for many years past 

 by the Pullman Palace- Car Company. 



Much waste-paper finds its way to the dust-contractor's 



yard, where it becomes the property of the "moulder/' 



at least in some yards, for the regulations are not quite 



he same everywhere. The "moulder" is the foreman of 



