Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — Novel Use of a Newspaper. [ARTICLE]

Novel Use of a Newspaper.

There is no aristocratic quarter in the City of Mexico, and it is fashionable not only to live on a business street, but to have a saloon or a meat market on the ground floor. Everybody lives in flats; the houses are usually three stories high, and the top floor is considered the best. It will rent for SIOO a month, while the second floor rents for S4O. When a house is to be let in Mexico the owner sticks an old newspaper in the window. It isn’t very tasteful, and seldom improves the appearance of the house, but it is economical and understood by the community.— Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean. ,