AN EXTRAORDINARY BEDSTEAD.
In February, IBS3, there was exhibited for a time in Paris an •■xtraordinary bed tead of rate costliness if not of rare valn<, mode for an Indian Prince. The eat of its con ti uctiou was between our and ha; thousand pounds. Thecanony was supported by four deg ml. and beautiful tdcmaton female figures costumed in th j national dresses of ; Pain, Italy, France, and ancient Greece; they waved fans to cool the air, and their eyes moved. T. e mattress was a huge musical box, which began to play a series of operatic airs diiectly anyone lay upon it. To add lo the apparent reality of the moving figures, they wore wigs. With, is, however, bedsteads are imended to be slept upon and it is not very clear how moving iignres around and operatic music underneath would conduce to that object.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 23 March 1901, Page 1
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145AN EXTRAORDINARY BEDSTEAD. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 23 March 1901, Page 1
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