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man or two brothers engaged in the marble business. They are old settlers - boys here twenty years ao. They had a stone threshold of the rock, and found by the constant wear of feet, that it was capable of a high polish. Under the microscope it seems composed entirely of minute shells, one I noticed a trilobite, but microscopic, the shells floating apparent by in some unclear so transparent that you can see part of the outline of the shells below the surface. The stone-cutter, who excavated some rock for them, showed me the stone - a specimen- under a prospecting glass, magnifying 40 or fifty diameters he thought. I was much interested in it, and thought how much undiscovered wealth lies around us, if we had eyes to see it. The Earth is our home, and a pretty good one, - the Lord said "very good;" but I fear we are very much strangers in it. This stone is being