Show A FAMOUS ONYX STONE the avorlean Syn syndicate dicato arranging to rend it to the worlds fair some time last month these dispatches told of the fact that an effort would U N mado do to exhibit at tho the worlds fair tho famous onyx stone found in one of tho old mines of onyx mountain in mexico the concer concessions granted by the tha government to the party of american capitalists included all mineral land in m th tho mountain and this stone which has haa been left where it was found several years ago is now the property of the syndicate they have made arrange e ments for rs shipping hipping it to chicago somo some time this fall the stone is oblong in shape being acin seven by five by three ft in diameter and is very beautiful it h carved with hieroglyphics hieroglyph ica and is evidently a memorial or sacrificial stone ston for the workmanship indicates that tt it was done by the best beat artists artista of the timo time when it was quarried out on the top is the figure of a man in bas relief surrounded by scroll work and hieroglyphics and at the feet of this figure lie se several figures of nude children tha figure of the man is life size and tha face is most exquisitely carved while at the upper right corner is ia the figure of a blazing sun the man has a child in ia one hand and he holds a knife in tha 0 ther other and he looks toward tho the sun only two of the sides are finished these are decorated with scroll borik in the shape of vines which dwina around columns carved in relief in tho tha onyx the veining of the fhe stone is of four colors and runs in layers horizontally so that the top earving carving is in the tha nature of cameo work while the sidel eida are crossed with veining vc ining at the upper end is an elevated place while bat above it are depressions depression as if made to fit the head and neck of a person alyin f on the stone while the figure of tho tha man is in such a position that the VIC victim I 1 would bo be compelled to lie ho on tho tha carved surface and consequently it h i supposed by some to be a memorial stone |