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Show J. P. Morgan's Rug. Every time J. Pierpont Morgan goes abroad he makes It a point to acquire a -number of valuable souvenirs of the trip. "ecentlv. besides a number of rare paint-tne-p. he nurchflsed for himself a Persian r"r. probably the rarest of its kind in ex- t 'stance. The rug measures ten feet six inches bv nineteen feet, was made of Persian Per-sian silk in Tabriz. Persia, and wa woven by Mohammedan , friars 150 year' ago for a shah. It tookj sixteen years to j weavr th rue. ( |