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Show A SiiiiKe Storr from Imliu. There is a lielief current in all parts of India that a certain variety of snako called Shesh Nag, when it attains the ago of 1,000 years, has a precious jewel formed in its head. Tho jewel, it is aflirmod, lamsesses the quality of sucking lip the poison of the deadliest snako if; applied to tlio wounded part. Strangely , enough a Paris gentleman is reputed to j possess this invaluable jewel, according j to a correspondent of a (iujarati weekly, published at Wadhwau, in Gujarat i. Tho correspondent says that when the present owner who, by tho way, is now sixty three was twenty-three years old, ho lighted upon a snako of tho above mentioned variety which he killed. Then ho found tho jewel in his head. It has already saved several lives. ; When Mr. Vidal, tho collector of the , district, was there, it was shown to him 1 too. The jewel is said to contain a thin, 1 crescent liko fiber, wliich unceasingly oscilliatesin tho center. The gaikwar of liaroda, the maharajah of Kolhapur, and several of her native princes are said to have offered several hundrei hotisaud rupees for this unique jewel. The name of the owner is Mr. Framji Dadabbai Govekar, Tarspur, Ilombay presidency |