Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1887 — A ghastly Fireplace. [ARTICLE]

A ghastly Fireplace.

A south side physician has capped the climax of suggestions. He is something of an artist in modeling in clay, and after he got bis office supplied with natural gas he made a cast of a skull. The thing is horribly natural, even to the sutures across the skull and one front tooth knocked out. This is set up in the grate in such a way that the bluish-crimson flames of the burning gas steal through the eyes and nostrils and flicker playfully around the ghastly jaws. Little jets of flames flash through between the sunken jaws and light up the bony countenance, heated to a white-red heat in a manner horribly suggestive of other fires which are said to burn but not consume.—-Pittß- - Dispatch. Mbs. C. Kellogg, Edgwood, Cal., says: Red Star Cough Cure is the best medicine she has ever used for colds for the children.