A Horn Curiosity

Our old school textbook told ns that "all borus are not bones, " aud thia ia certainly true as far as the horn of the rhinoceros is concerned. That curious protnberauce is nothing less thau a lection ov amalgamation of hairs, so i interwoven and agglutiuated that nnder the ruiscroscope it appeai's to beof compoaition similar to the pith of a cornstalk, except that the hairs are not so widely separated by the material that binds them together. In olden timos royalty employed rhinoceros horns for drinkiug cups, the notion being that poison put iuto them would show itself by bubbling Thera may have been a grain of truth in this, for it is knowu that the ancient poisons were all aciiis, and tlie.se would certain ly decomposi: the horuy structnre of the cup verv rapidly