Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

-.HI- -- - im-w liMmlihlinW ALWAYS !TS PAWNS Itiioago/’ - Lafayette ndianapolisL Linoinnati • □ PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS CLEGANT PARLOR CARS ALLTRAINS RUN THROUGH SOLID Tickets Sold and Baggage Checked to Destination. (V*QM Xape and Time Tables if you want to be ■oro fully infosmed-ali Ticket Agents at Coupon Mats hove them—or efliirsaa G. K. Bollingswoith, will loan you money on personal mortgage, or chattel security, for long or short time at local bank rates. These loans can be paid back at any time, and are mors desirable than bank loans, because interest is rebated.— W< nave unlimited capital and can accommodate everybody. 11. TRUSTEES NOTICE. Notice iejhereby given that I will be c my office at John A. Knowlton’s, in Joidan township, oi the Fourth Saturday cl each month for the transaction of business connected with tbv duties of Trt.rtoo. JAMES H. CARR, Trustee Jordan Townshi

A VERY FINE LAP ROBE. The Warsaw Republican has a write-up of a mole skin lap n>V»e mode by Simon Hartman, formerly of this county, which -s quite interesting. It says the making of the robe has occupied Mr. Har.man’s leisure time for the pist eleven vears. At that time he oonoe.ved the idea of constructing ing a lap robe, or bedspread, out of mole skins- an animal said to be-*r as fine a fur as any known to this climate. When it is borne in mind that when dressed and »ewn into th- 1 robe, each skia would only average four inches square the number of them required, and the patience demanded in getting .■> sufficient quantity for the contem* plated work can be perceived. The size of the robe, as completed measures five feet and three inches in length, by four feet and three

inches in width. The number ot skins in the robe is just 285. All these skins are hand-tanned, by what is known as the Russian process, and strongly and firmly joins ed together by the very best and strongest linen thread. The robe is lined with heavy red silk plush, with gold and yellow silk trimmings for the border. In addition to the plush lining, a pie.cj of heavy canvas forms the basis, to which each skin is firmlv stitched. This wat done to prevent any pulling or stretching of the skins.— Three thicknesses of cotton wadding are basted to the canvas, apt then comes the plush lining, mak» ing a very substantial backing for the beautiiul covering of fur; anc as a whole making as handsome a lap robe as was ever spread over the knees of the Czar of all the Russias.—Rochester Sentinel.

The New School Laws.— The state superintendent of public in* struction has issued a statement to county superintendents on the supplemental school book law of 1893. In the revision ot the course of study, the intermediate grammar has been placed in the sixth year, and forms the link between language and technical grammar The work in advanced geography has been arranged for continuous study in three lines—mathematical, i hysical and political. A pre cher in one of our neighboring towns is reported to have about broken up his church the other day by saying in a sermon that “God made the earth in six days and rested; then he made man and rested again: then made woman, and since that time neither God nor man has had any rest” A ■ » 11 ■—— rwGSi. SnuLKA* tan excavated al ■ Ofc,