Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1883 — The Model Patient Man of the Day. [ARTICLE]

The Model Patient Man of the Day.

George Mexcur, a middle-aged farme: of Bloomfield, takes the prize as i patient man. After nine years of as siduous work he has just completed i writing-desk and book-case combined that contains so many thousand piece; of wood that it was found next to im possible to keep the number exact Fifty-two kinds* of wood were used ix this unique piece of furniture, and then is scarcely a square inch that is no' inlaid. The designs are of a very wid< range, and take in animals, flowers trees, agricultural implements, article; of household use, etc. The novelty o: the thing is that every bit of inlaying was done with a jack-knife, and Mr Mexcur says he wore out nineteei blades in the work. —Hartford Courani