Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1885 — A Ghastly Scarf-Pin. [ARTICLE]

A Ghastly Scarf-Pin.

A harmless yet ghastly scarf-pin is a mechanical skull of enameled gold, with a moveable under jaw, and diamonds set back in its hollow sockets for eyes. The skull is worked by a current of electricity generated by a little battery carried in the pocket, and transmitted over wires no heavier than strands of thread. Pressing upon a button which completes the electric circuit, the teeth rtittle. They are made in Paris and are worth SIOO. The price is rather steep, but the ornament has to be very carefully and nicely adjusted, and it is made of platinum and the best of gold; besides, the diamonds alone are of some value. No cheap counterfeits have yet been made. The ability of the average American school-marm to take care of herself is renewedly illustrated in the case of Miss Mattie Worley, a teacher in Greenwood County, Kansas. She has earned enough money by teaching to buy 100 acres of land, although she is not twenty years old and has been receiving only S4O per month. A clerk in Indianapolis was arrested for embezzling 1 cent The value of a ton of pure gold is $602,799.21.