Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Bogus Alaskan Curios. [ARTICLE]

Bogus Alaskan Curios.

Ex-State Senator E. C. Voorheis, of Sutter Creek, has returned to San Francisco with his family from a visit to Alaska on the City of Fueblo. “There Is one thing from which the ordinary tourist cannot be t Aveaned,” said ha, “He will buy curios wherever he goes. That is tlfe way in Alaska. Wo hear a good deal about the fine carving done by the native Alaskan. Now, the fact is, the Alaskan knows mighty little about carring. The crack carver of Sitka came down to San Francisco, I was told, to learn the art of carving, and now he turns out barrels of ingenious contrivance supposed by his customers to be indigenous to the soil of Alaska only. On a boat which went to Juneau a short time before we arrived there were actually 6,000 pounds of Alaskan curios manufactured by Americans at Brockton, Mass.” Mr. McSwat—Great Scott, Lobelia 1 What are you waking me np in the middle of the night for? Mrs. McSwat —I want to know, dear, If the mosquitoes are. biting you as badly as they are me.—Chicago Tribune. There Is one thing to the credit of old maids; they accumulate no kin.