Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-12-16 | Page 18 | The Origin of Pearls

THE ORIGIN lOF OF PEARLS principal hypotheses have been offEr of of- Three to account for this the cl orl origin ln of pearls perls I According fEr to one they from a caused by the time presence of ot some for- for i thou dign ton cal object I 0 such u 11 a t grain grin of ot sand with with- In the tho shell of the 01 oyster t et But Dut U It I ha has hf I 1 b rp or shown shel that fin fine pearls arc ar not thus produced theory ii la h. that pearls mire are the Another perl te I 1 result of nf disease In th the oyster The h third hyp hypothesis th ls sustained by lw M M. 1 of 1 the mus museum um of Monaco s 's s to the thc presence of a n parasite The Thet t I of or parasite differs with the sp os of or oyster but the mode of ot origin M M. M IC Seurat cs belc believes Is general with ai all nl 1 fine pearls i iTo I To restore the lustre of a dead pe pet cj I time the tf outer tarnished en elor envelope may mav b be moved with acids Thus the effect pr I duc d on a n tarnished pearl b by causing QI q fowl to swallow allow It Is accounted d for U 1 I tIme the dl action teton of ot the the gastric gastric jUI C