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Show MODERN WORK WILL NOT LAST. Newspapers and Books Printed T6-Day T6-Day Have 8hort Lives. "The men who wrote history on tablets of stone In nges gono had a difficult task to perform, nnd had to cultlvato thje habit of brevity," Baye a writer in a German paper, "but what jthey wroto was preserved. It will bo different with the newspapers and books of tho present time. Tho paper upon which they are printed will disintegrate dis-integrate In a few years, and the records, historical, scientific nnd literary, liter-ary, will become dust. I saw two papers last weok which told the wholo atoryj Ono contained an account ac-count of tho death of Napoleon 'Bonaparte. 'Bona-parte. It was printed in 1821, was In a state of perfect preservation, and looked, ns though It might last, with ordinary care, a hundred years. Tho other paper was kept because Its leading artlclo described tho surrender surren-der of Sednn, which hod taken place n day before. Although It had been printed nearly GO years later, tho Sedan paper had to bo handled carefully care-fully to prevent 'Its tearing in tho creases. One of these papers was printed on old-fnshloncd pnper, und tho other on tho modern kind. With tho two specimens before mo I cannot can-not refrain from urging once moro .that a few numbers of all books and nowspnpers, enriugh for nil flrel-class libraries, bo printed on good paper for tho benefit of thoso who will live after us." |