A Valuable Paperweight

A student at JefTeion college ov.us a S highly prized paperweigbt, inherited from his father, who was a student tit ileitlelberg university, whieh is said to have uo counterpart except one owned by W. W. Astor. who was álso i student there. It is a limestone stalactito abont a foot high, obtained trom a cave near the upper Rhiue, mounted on a pedestal of onyx and encircled witua uarrowsilver band, -whose vvhorls, like that of a Blender shaving, exter.d the whole dibtancc? at irregular intervals from base tosvnnmit. These intervals mark the different stages of the stalactite's growth, tifically calcnlated, and on the band, which was affixed by a learned Heidelberg professor, are engravecí the various periods of time. First come the geological eras, when the whorls are widely separated. Then narrowing into the historie periods come the Babylonic and Egyptian, the Roman and renaissance or modern epochs. The first periods are tnarked by widths of varying inches. the latter by varying halves, qnarters