Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Drinking cups are made from rhinoceros horn by natives of Suiiatra, who believe that they counteract poisons. The price of peanuts in Baltimore is still “five a bag,” but the buyer finds ofaly about fifteen peanuts in the bag—three for a cent. French scientists have discovered that vegetable ivory can be obtained from the fruit of a small palm grown prolifically in the Sudan. Barristers’ wigs first came into vogue about 20b years ago. Up to the end of the seventeenth century 'judges and sergeants-at-law alone had any distinctive dress. Under Queen Anne the queen’s counselor adopted the court dress and silk gown which made up the mourning of the period, together with the full-bottomed wig then usually worn by all persons of position.

NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT FOR COUNTY FARM SUPPLIES Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will on Monday, December 2nd, 1918, receive sealed proposals for furnishing groceries, dry goods and meat for the use of tiie County Poor Asylum. All bids to be on file by 2 o'clock p. m_, of said date, afid to be accompanied by affidavit as required by law. v The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor. Standing Timber—We have dry wood, standing timber, 2 to 3 miles west of Parr. Will sell in patches, any quantity desired. —J. J. LAWLER, phone J. E. Waiter, Mgr. 337. ts Estrayed—A large black milk cow. —RAY THOMPSON, phone 277. f n-lfi