Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — The Sacred Elephant. [ARTICLE]

The Sacred Elephant.

An uncommonly striking ornament i w on exhibition in the window of a atcous jeweler is the tusk of a sacred -s ephant from the East. The tusk, six feet, long, is one of the finest and t.raightest ever brought to this country, ~nd it was valued before mounting at i ". A deal of time and expense has been placed upon the metal work a! ihe .ounting, and the whole design is thoroughly East Indian. The tusk itself nns only been polished, so that its natrai characteristics remain, and even the marks of the Oriental custom hou e through which it came have not • en removed.