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Show jONE VORTH MUCH MONEY. nEleTreaur8 In Poesojtlon of l B,7ijgni3lTtlifittMuieum1toMIM Thoro Is a slab of blnck stono In tho Ilrltlsh museum which. If ynu could walk away with it nnd eaiabllsh your claim as the owner, you cfful(Liell any ilayj for a miartor of n million, nnd flniJ half a don money king In "Ins:-land "Ins:-land nniv America ready to buy It. There is nothing very striking about thla stone; It might be f. pleco of black lftible with some peculiar hieroglyphics hieroglyph-ics upon It. Hut, It la Just thoso hloio jlyphlca which make It o valuable, because thoy nre the key to all the ancient an-cient wiltliiRs of the Egyptians, and without th'ts stono, called tho Hos-etta Hos-etta Stone, we should be uuablu to ipnd tho Kgyptlnn writings which liave been dlBcovcred from tlmo to lime. Some French tourists found the ltosotta Stono In ERypt. and transported trans-ported it to l'arls, where an KnglUh-man KnglUh-man tool? a fancy to It for a pardon ornament. Ho paid U6 for It ftvo BoorolRn. nnd got a treinmre which on could cover with Bold, and yet not repiOBent Its value, hut till thu day of hla death he did not know what that hit of htono was woith. |
