Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — A Beantifnl Illustrated Boole Free. [ARTICLE]

A Beantifnl Illustrated Boole Free.

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” wegpll know, and have learned to admire as well. But when an object of admiration carries with it u large measure of useful information in addition to its artistic merit, its intrinsic value becomes very much enhanced. In our lost week’s issue there appeared an advertisement announcing that The John M. Smyth Company, 150 to 108 West Madison street, Chicago, would, send free to all applicants their elegant new add massive 400-page illustrated catalogue. The John M. Smyth Company is the largest furniture and house-furnishing establishment in the world. Their new catalogue is a marvel of the printer's finest an, as well as an encyclopedia of information pertaining to all kinds of home, office and hotel furnishing. Illustrations run in profusion through the book, and prices are given lor everything. This great perfect standard work on house and office furnishing—should be in every home of our land. It will be shipped free by express, charges prepaid, to all who write for it to THE JOHN M. SMYTH CO., 150 to 1(18 West Madison street, Chicago. Gouvorneur Morris, of New /York, in 1782, proposed to the Continental Congress a decimal currency system. He suggested ten units equal one penny; ten pennies, one bill; ten bills, one dollar; ten dollars, one crown. In 1784, Jefferson proposed the system" as now in use; Congress, in July, 1785, resolved that the coinage should conform to the decimal system.