Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — Bismarck’s Gold Chessboard. [ARTICLE]

Bismarck’s Gold Chessboard.

Prince Bismarck was recently the recipient of a handsome present In the shape of a chessboard Inlaid with alternate squares of yellow and milkwhite amber laid on an under surface of gold. The figures, which are marvelously carved, are also of amber, and each minute detail Is faultlessly carried out. ; ; Voltaire was afraid to sleep In the dark, and Invariably woke If bis candlt went out