A manufactory of paper bricks has been opened somewhere in Winconsin. The bricks are said to be exceedingly durable and moistare proof. They are also larger than the clay article. Paper is now also used for making barrels. Straw pulp is run into a mould made in the shape of a half-barrel cut vertic ally. The ends are of paper, but are protected by wood. The barrels are lighter and two-thirds cheaper than those of wood, and flour will not sift outof them while in transit. The staves are three-eights of an inch thick.
Ladies are afraid to write to Tilden, because they have learued from his tes timony that his letters are opened by his secretary, and the contents are not communicated to him. He has no correspondents, and don't know what is going on about him. — Dayton Journal. There is a bar-room not a thousand miles from this place that has posted up in conspicuous places the following : — " Children under ten years of age will not be allowed to get drunk on these premises unless accompanied by their parents. — Blue Bidge (Ga.) Echo. No part of the public taxes can be lawfully used for private purposes. But that does not prevent Congress men from getting cutlery, silverware, carpet bags, aud opera glasses made over to them as stationery. — New Or leans Picayune. A late number of the Leaxenworth (Kas.) Commonwealth innocently gives utterance to this wholly unintentional sarcasm : "A crazy man named David Statler was on the streets yesterday. He bad some money and his friends took care of him."

THE TARANAKI HERALD, APRIL 25. 1879.
