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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 25, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 8.

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OLD sail-cloths are used extensively for making the paper for Oxford Bibles. "There are huge piles of this old material," says the Leisure Hour, "gathered in here, after battling with breezes in all the seas under heaven. They come in here to be torn into shreds, and beaten into pulp, and bleached, drawn out into beautiful white sheets, to be presently printed on, wafted off again to all the ends of the earth—certainly rather a quaint and curious metamorphosis."