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Rock Crystal

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
September
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Rock crystal is plentiful in various localities of tho United States. A mass of it weighing fifty-one pounds from North Carolina was sent four years ago to New York. The original crystal, which must have weighed 300 pounds, was unfortunately broken in pieces by the ignorant mountain girl who discovered it. One very useful purpose to which this mineral substance is put is the manufacture of mirrora, when it can be found in big enough blocks to be sawed into slabs of sufficient size. lts Buperiority over glass lies in the f act that it does not, like glass, detract from tho rosiness of the complexion. Every pretty woman should surely have a hand glass of rock

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register