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Show The Manufacture of Rosaries. At Kandahar rosaries aro extensively extensive-ly manufactured from soft crystallized silicate of magnesia. This is quarrlod from a hill about 30 miles northwest of tho city, where soapstono and antimony an-timony are also obtained In considerable consider-able abundance. Tho stono varies In color from a light yellow to a bluish white, and Is generally opaque. The most popular kind Is straw colored and semi-transparent A few specimens speci-mens are of mottled greenish color, brown, or nearly black. Rosaries and charms of various Borts aro made for exportation to Mecca. The waste powder pow-der from the rosary Industry Is used as a remedy for heartburn. |