Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1890 — A Rattlesnake Banner. [ARTICLE]

A Rattlesnake Banner.

A Kansas City lady has a most unique banner. It is as beautiful as it is unique, and is prized by its owner for its beauty nnd oddity. It is made of the skin of an enormous rattlesnake, with the background of plush. The snake skin was sent the lady by a friend who lives in Texas. It is beautifully tanned, the back being colored and covered with spots resembling scales, which on the background Of plush look for all the world like mosaic. The skin is over 5 feet long without the head and tail, and fourteen rattles deuoted its age. In the widest part the skin is $ inches in width, thus showing that in life the rightful owner of the skin which now dorns the lady’s parlor must have beeu an ugly customer. A letter which pre* ceded the present states that balk made of rattlesnake skins are muoft worn by the young ladies of Texas, and are a common article of a belle's apparel.-- ...