Show A FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR RATCHET HATCHET I I I f e I A hatchet worth almost or quite Its weight In gold has been brought from this the West Indies to New York and Is to find tind n a resting roeUng In UI the Museum ot of Natural History Itt II that city It It Is the only specimen of Its kind to In existence e and was found many years tars ago In the where It waa aa for tor n a tong long time In the collection ot of the late at Turks Island Mr tr George Judson When the talented Professor JOle Joseph h Henry was Tas at the head of oC the ponlan institution ot of about 10 00 years ao ago h he his of till this spec peel men and requested Mr GIbbs to tend lend It t to him for tor the ot of having a plaster cat cast and made of It After Atter n a critical examination ht he stated over the seal 1 ot of the Institution his signature being certified to before her flit Dri tannic charge at Washington thAt this hatchet wu was w worth rth at the low lowest calculation In gohd As no specimen ot of the tho kind has baa been discovered lInN sines It le II quite r reasonable to assume that It is 18 not at 1 lea leathan than that now |