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Show STONE WORTH i.UCH MONEY. Invaluable Treasure In Possession of the Drltlsh Museum. , There Is a slab of black stone In tho British museum which, If you could walk away .with It .and establish your claim asthVownerYyou could sell any day for a quarter of a million, and find half a dozen monoyklngs in England Eng-land and Amcilca ready to buy It. There is nothing very striking about this stono; it might bo n pleco of black marblo with some peculiar hieroglyphics hieroglyph-ics upon It. Hut, it is Just these hieroglyphics hiero-glyphics wXlch innko it so valuable, because they are tho key to all the ancient an-cient writings of thu Egyptians and -without this stone, called the Hos-otta Hos-otta Stone, we should bo unable to read tho Egyptian writings which havo been discovered from time to time. Some Frenih tourists found tho Ilosctta Stono in Egjpt, and transported trans-ported it to Paris, whero an Ensllsh-man Ensllsh-man took a f.ncy to It for a garden ornament Ho paid "$25 for It (Ho sovereigns, nnC got a treasure which, you could cOver with gold, and yrt not represent its value, but till the day ot his death ho did not know what that bit of stono was worth. |