Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1899 — Washington Relics. [ARTICLE]

Washington Relics.

Glass knobs from Washington’s bedstead at Mount Vernon promise to be as plentiful as copies of the Ulster County Gazette containing an account of the funeral of the father of his country. The knobs are movable and are apt to disappear mysteriously. But the custodian from time to time orders a fresh supply from Pittsburg at 30 cents a gross, and so the scattered collection of several thousand Is constantly increasing.—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.