Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — VERY EXPENSIVE ANIMALS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VERY EXPENSIVE ANIMALS.

A Do* an-I a Frig 11« at Represent $50,000 Each, Owned by a New Yorker. The average life of a treasury note or silver certificate was formerly three years. Now r , with improved paper and

less handling, it is three and a half to four years. When these notes die and aie redeemed at the Uni'ed States Treasury they are macerated thoroughly, and the doughy pulp thus produced is fashioned into vaiious odd forms. ; for sale by the attendants in the macerating room as curios. A counterfeit presentment of an alleged dog, the property of a New York newspaper

man, is made of the pulp of $50,000 worth of treasury notes, and there is aho a slab-sided frog, owned by the same man, which represents a similar amount of destroyed notes. In the macerating room of the Treasury Building $28,000,000 are leduced to pulp in

a single day. This pulp mill has con- | sumed $4,000,000,000—four times as much as the last Congress and is still open for business. The redeemed bills are brought

in, and. under the supervision of a committee of three, representing the Secretary, Treasurer and Comptroller of the Treasury, are put into the mill 1 and sealed with three great padlocks. After the first process of destruction the same committee opehß the mill and the shreds are turned into a steam vat. I out of which they come in the shape of a gray, formless pulp, which is sold to the paper manufacturers. Fridat in Presidential records: Inaugurated on Friday: J. Q. Adams, Pierce and Garfield. Born on Friday: ' Washington, Madison, Monroe, Pierce and Hayes. Died on Friday: Tyler, Polk, Pietee and Arthur. Lincoln ; wis assassinated on Friday.

A WONDERFUL PURP.

WEALTHY ENG[?]GH TO WOO.