Pearls Before Swine

There is a genuine case of pearls before swine at Merced, Cal. At that point the San Joaquin river is very low, and in many places the river bed and the bottom of the large sloughs are covered with fresh water mussels. Pearls of fair color are sometimes found in these bivalves. At present droves of hogs are eating the mussels, pearls and all. The pork of the pearl fed swine is not at all palatable. -Kansas City Times. Italian astronomers place the age of the worlil at not less than 80,000,000 years, and ere afreed that it has been peopled for aboijt 60,000,000 yeare.