Novelties In Paper

A correspondent wants to know if it ia really tnie that car-wheels are made o: paper. We can assure him that it is The paper is eubjeeted to enormous prensure and inclosed between thin plates of iron. Such wheels are found to hav extraordinary elasticity and endurance and are coming to be much used not onh in ü)is country; but in Europe. Th' latest novel ty in ttse of paper appears to be for chimney-pots. They are made in Breslau, and are light and durable. Be fore the paper pulp is molded and com pressed into the required shape it i treated with chemicals which render i noninflnmmable. Specimens of pape and cloth made from the California cae tuswere recently exhibited before tb Maryland Academy of Sciences. Th cactus grows abundantly in many of th Western States and Territories, aud it i found on arid soil where nothing can b cultivated. The success that has been met -with in making paper from thi plant is so marked that the business -wi' probably be attempted on a largo scnlo