Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — Must Have a New Carpet. [ARTICLE]

Must Have a New Carpet.

With the meeting of every new Con* gress a new carpet is placed upon the floor of the Jlouse of Representatives. The carpet costs a snug little sum. it is one of the stipulations of the contract that the manufaeturere shall nut furnish the same design to anybody else, which is done so as to prevent bargain hunters being beguiled into buying carpets “just like Congress uses.” The old carpet is cut up aud used iu committee-rooms, but, owing to the detestable habit of the average law-maker in chewing tobacco a good deal es It is worthless. Although on land a clumsy animal, the seal is wonderfully quick in the water, and in a fair race can generally catch almost any fish. It is said that the flesh on the forequarters of the beaver resembles that of land animals, while that on the hindquarters has a fishy taste.