Sunday, September 25, 2005

I love my classes this semester. Today in my reading for Preservation Management, I learned how in the Victorian era, papermakers were all in a dither over the discovery of mummies in Egypt because they provided a much cheaper source of cotton rag. One paper manufacturer in Maine ordered a lot of mummies at $0.03/lb. for use in butcher paper (i.e. paper that gets wrapped around the meat you use in your dinner), but went out of business when a cholera epidemic broke out. Go figure.

I can also use the phrase "hair/flesh distubance" more or less correctly in a sentence.