Show JEWELED TURTLE the he pet f t a lias Hs its shell S tda I 1 alth KiA bluds monJa in my journey ings over this fairland fair land chave I 1 have run across some very strange fads indulged in by people who have plenty of money and who have used it in the gratification of fancies that have not benefited the world in the least writes a buffalo correspondent of the st louis C globe lobe democrat I 1 have met stamp collectors collector 3 and fanciers men with a mania for accumulating mu lating walking canes once I knew a man who had spent hundreds of dollars in getting up a collection of historical hats cove covering alv two 0 centuries but a jeweler at bort L jee J ee told me about a millionaire of that vicinity who should certainly have the highest pointed crown hat in my mends friends collection about a month ago this millionaire walked into a jewelers place with a common land turtle or tortoise which he had captured in the woods nearby laid it on the counter and gave a most astonishing order remarking I in give the people eople something to talk about and he certainly did for he ordered the shell of the turtle to bein be in crusted on its outer side with a heavy layer of gold on etruscan finish in the center of its horny back he ordered ai an emerald to be placed at various points in the gold he had inserted small but pure diamonds A massive silver chain was attached to the shell at his magnificent country seat the erratic millionaire had constructed on his lawn a reproduction in rocks bushes and ferns of the spot from I 1 w which the tortoise had been taken in this place which the rich man calls a turtle armin the highly decorated reptile is permitted to roam the length of his silver chain it looks as though lou g h the financial stringency had not struck this man of means and his neighbors are now waiting tor for him to have the house of his cattle gold plated his horses shod with silver and diamond drops placed in the ears of his fancy pigs |