Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1920 — BIBLES IN STRANGE BINDINGS [ARTICLE]

BIBLES IN STRANGE BINDINGS

* Watert-I. «*m to Have ’ Been Uaed as Coverings Sacred Book. The taste for having a particular Bible bound in a manner that is out of the ordinary to common to many ' people. • ' v U is strange to think of a huntsman I in the wilds of Asia killing the bear, or a sailor in some northern sea catching the seal that givto the skin wlttf which a Bible shall eventually be bound to grace the desk of some eccentric millionaire. Yet such is often the case. One Bible la coveted with a long, thick, soft halt; to shaggy that the ; shape of the book Is hidden. This was taken from a grizzly bear. Another is made from the skin of a serpent. A : grey, beaded surface, resembling glass, is presented by another binding which came from a man-eating shark. There is a badger Bible and a skunk Bible, the latter looking for all the world like a' lady’s muff. The Persian sheep, the Himalaya sheep, and other foreign varieties, of this family have । been called upon to furnish Bible, coverings; Most curious of all is to Bible bound in toe skin of a giraffe.