Show an artificial I 1 earl A ball of beeswax introduced into the shell of a living fresh water mussel has bag resulted td cd in producing tl it e most remark able artificial pearl in existence it la is about aninch an inch and a baffin half in lei ath obal ov al in ili form and pink in color an and d Is now DOW th the e property of the smithsonian insel aution the ball of was max was mas placed near the hinge of the bivalve which being kept in a it tank of fresh water mater ft as carefully watched the irritation of the max ft as caused the mollusk to p pro ro feet itself by coating the foreign object with mith a smooth coating of pearl pe art stuff the same material as that which Is used in ili lining the inner surface of ita its shell in tl ti e case in question the result was an enormous pearl oft oming ing to i rt sure however the wax max ball lost its spherical shape and became oval onal in form at atthe the end of two years the kusbel was taken out of the tali tank and opened and the pearl removed tie was wax after afterward mard contracted owing to dryness which caused the pearl shell to crack this accident m while bile destroying the commer cial value of the pearl mide it ble to observe the thickness 0 of f the nacreous co covering ering which Is homem somewhat bat greater than that of an ordinary beet rbee t of letter paper if it tie e I 1 earl were mere not il flawed amed it would be worth an all enormous sum u in of moi ey but even eien an at it Is it Is I 1 reekes reek r ts as a curl curiosity |