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Show A Valuable Book. In tho library of tho palnco of the Itajah of Ulwar, a city In India, there Is a manuscript book called "The Gu-llstan," Gu-llstan," which Is claimed to bo the most valuablo voltimo In India. Tho librarian Insists that It Is worth flvo hundred thousand rupees, which Is equivalent to about a hundred and seventy thousand dollars, and declares that tho actual cost of tho gold used In Illuminating It was moro than fifty thousand dollars. It Is a modern man-, uscrlpt copy of a religious poem, mado In 1818 by a Oerman scrlbo at tho order or-der of tho Maharajah Ilnnl Singh. The miniatures and other pictures wero painted by a natlvo nrtlst at Delhi, amMho ornamental scroll work upon tho margins of tho pages nnd tho Initial In-itial letters wero dono by a resident of Ulwar. |