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Show I THE .TRIBUNE'S PETRIFIED HOAX j The "Petrified Y Human Head') I Neither a Hoax Nor a Head, Ac- cording to Poponlar Opinion. j The curious object on exhibition in ' Godbe, Pitts & Co. 's drug store, which has excited so much interest and brought out so many vague theories, still continues con-tinues to be an enigma to even the best j experts who have examined it. By most I of those who were only permitted to view j the Curiosity through a glass case, it was j pronounced to be a genuine human head, Ibut through what process it had passed or what were the probable tacts respecting respect-ing its strange condition, very few had anything like a tangible or at least acceptable ac-ceptable theory. The interest was even increased this morning when it was announced an-nounced in a morning contemporary that the whole thing was "a petrified joke," and scores of those who had been enthusiastic yesterday in their expres- J sions of wonderment were seen scrutinizing scrutiniz-ing the strange object with apparent feelings feel-ings of uncertainty. The story first given as to the finding of the head etc., is corroborated, it would seem, beyond a question, and the "joke" which the Tribune endeavored to work up Undoubtedly originated with the reporter's re-porter's ewrihead. A number of gentlemen gentle-men were' to-day permitted to more closely examine the curiosity and it was found to be of a sort of concrete or sandstone sand-stone substance, and is supposed by some to be a relic of ancient sculpture work. If such it is and there is a wide difference differ-ence of opinion respecting it a high tribute must be paid to the perfection which the art must have attained in those early days. A gentleman who has traveled extensively through . New and Old Mexico was heard to say that many such relics have been found all through-those localities, and they are said to date back long prior to the days of Montezuma. J , , |