Brigham's "Thousand Dollar" Chandelier

"Where do you think we got that central chandelier, and what d'ye suppose we paid for it?" It was a piece of workmanship which would have been creditable to any New York firm, -- apparently a richly carved circle, twined with gilt vines, leaves and tendrils, blossoming all over with flaming wax-lights, and suspended by a massive chain of golden lustre. So I replied that he probably paid a thousand dollars for it in New York. "Capital!" exclaimed Brigham. "I made it myself! That circle is a cartwheel which I washed and gilded; it hangs by a pair of gilt ox-chains; and the ornaments of the candlesticks were all cut after my patterns out of sheet-tin!"