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Show Trees and Novels. Nino successful novels recently published pub-lished In tho United States had a total salo of over 1,600,000 copies. Since tho average weight of each book sold was probably twenty ounces, a llttlo calculation will provo that theso 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 books contained approximately 2,000,000 pounds of paper. A manufacturer manu-facturer of paper asserts that tho aver-ago aver-ago epruco trco yields a llttlo less than half a cord of wood, which Is equivalent equiva-lent to about 500 pounds of paper. In other words, these nine novels swept away 4,008 trees and they form but a small part of tho fiction so eagerly read by tho American people. |