Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — A Missouri Curiosity. [ARTICLE]

A Missouri Curiosity.

In Nevada, Mo., a young catalpa tree, about twenty feet tall, is growing with a section of a coal-stove grate firmly attached near its roots. The tree has grown through the bars of the grate from the seed, and, as it increased in diameter, the wood lapped over and under the bars, holding it as in a vise. The grate was lifted off the ground several inches as the growth of the tree progressed. Nickels of the year 1877 are worth $1 each from the collectors.