Show uses use of papyrus is the papyrus plant which once flourished in large quan quantities aves in it egypt but is now almost extine extinct there cnare still abounds in the jordan valley ah ab well as in the neighborhood of jaffa and sidon it grows best in in a mr shy soil easily attaining a lich hecht of eight to ten tet feet the stems atoms of 0 the plant which are hollow like bamboo are leaflet leafless and as aa thick as ai a maus erm ej m at the lower part tapering away to a point this wood aya says a writer in the wide world magazine li Is used today in the east tor for a variety of par purposes both lOm ornamental and useful at jaffa it li in converted into ban dais boxes various articles of 0 furn I 1 ture iura and even into boats in ancient times time particularly when the pharaohs Phara reigned In Egypt the papyrus was cult cultivated and converted into paper and many museums can boast of specimens of thesa ancient papyri manuscripts |