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Show place It. The shape la that of the tongue of a huge monster, or possibly the flipper flip-per of - an acquatic animal. But what seta both these theories wrong- U the fact that - the fossil is undoubtedly, or wee. Ivory. By comparing the specimen with ivory the texture Is Identical. But It In not tusk-shaped, nor is it anything resembling re-sembling a tooth In shape. The fact that at tha tip are a number of protruding points of harder material than the balance bal-ance of the fossil makes it an even harder hard-er problem to solve." Warden Consldlne la greatly interested In the And, which was Incased in - sandstone, twenty feet from the surface. He will continue excavation ex-cavation with the greatest care. In the hope that other fragments of the mysterious mysteri-ous beast may be found. " ' .'... i- F. T. Steinmelts of Carson, an ornithologist ornithol-ogist of more than local fame, has presented pre-sented to the University of Nevada his collection of birds' nests, eggs and skins, one of the largest collections In the State. It represents the work of a lifetime, and Includes hundreds of pages Of carefully-prepared carefully-prepared notes. . ' The senior class in the State university mining department will leave Reno on April 1 on a ten days' trip to southern Nevada mining districts. I; htemomitein Affcirs ! ; Gleanings from Country Press!. The haunted house on the' American ; Flat wagon road, says the Virginia City. Ner., Chronicle, Is being taken, down. It is a stone structure two stories In height, and la one of the oldest buildings in the county. It has . been uninhabited for twenty years. Its last occupant being the Jones family, the father of which was in the dairy business. The family vacated tno - premises on account of ' alleged strange noises and nightly ghostly manifestations mani-festations that made sleep impossible, and since the exit of the oJneses the house has been vacant. - : ' . Xiocal archaeologists are greatly Interested Inter-ested In the find that was recently made In the quarry at the State prison. It was presented to George T. Mills by Chris Yager, one of the guards at the prison, says the Elko, Nev.. Free Press. The find Is a petrification of some kind, but Is totally different from anything yet uncovered in the tomb of bygone age. In weight, color and texture it differs from the other relics, but the difficulty Is to |