Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1885 — Potter Palmer’s Piano. [ARTICLE]
Potter Palmer’s Piano.
One of the finest outfits ever brought to Chicago is the pcr..or set that will furnish the Moorish room in Mr. Potter Palmer’s lake-shore The most important articles in' the suit are the piano, cabinet, and divan, made of maple and inlaid with brass, ebony, sandal. Brazil-nut wood, and mahogany. The body of the piano is inlaid with dark wood, and over the keyboard is a trio of horshshoe panels beautifully carved in open patterns. The sides of the box are filled .in with matched woods and seamed with bands of fine wood-carving. The standing cabinet, which is formed of two alcoves of varying sizes f, and divison Of" arches, each locating a separate compartment, w very complicated in design.— Chicago Tribune. “Cured patients are employed by certain San Franciscan physicians, and stationed in the waiting-rooms’to testify with tearful earnestness, to new patients how thpy themselves were cured of“precisely i|he same disease by the prince of medical science inside. There is one word in our language which may be pronounced quicker by adding to'its length, and that is quick, itself. ’ » ’ • f ■> . . ■ * - "v
