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Show Tbe Fondest Hope nf Every Geologlit, Every geologist In the west, or at least every one who says his prayers at all, goes down on his knee3 every night and prays that he may discover a vein of hthegraph stone. There is only one quaii.y of this precious material in the pnited States, and. that is somewhere in the northeast. The best stone comes from Germany, and is so valuable and expensiye that the discovery of even a small vein would prove the fortune of the finder. Tbe geologists are convinced con-vinced that there most be an abundance abun-dance of thi3 material somewhere in the United States, and so keep a sharp lookout on any newly discovered stone, for a vein .of the lithograph stone would be woitn more to its owner than a gold mine, St. Louis Globe-Peraocrat. |