Preface, Table of Contents

1 Page 298 FACTS AND FANCIES In ancient days there was a b
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2 Page 299 pearls to the reception of raindrops from heaven by the oyst
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3 Page 304 extent by the acidity of the excretions of the human skin, s
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4 Page 307 previous to her husband's assassination by Ravaillac. The co
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5 Page 308 have swallowed it like a pill or, as Sir Thomas Gresham did
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6 Page 309 of the jewel, and sometimes even that is ex­ceeded. The buy
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7 Page 300 ing to distinguish the male from the female. This fable also
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8 Page 302 centuries to disprove them, they received credence for more
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9 Page 303 A question often raised, and which by its periodical revival
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10 Page 305 the wonderment of the reader and perpetuate the impression t
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11 Page 306 The pearl is generally considered to be the emblem of innoce
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12 Page 310 black head-lines, and the morning papers of the following da
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13 Page 301 A year later these would be larger. It is also said that whe
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14 Page 311 limitations, we find big and little, fine and ordinary
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15 Page 312 of pearls to reiterated records of a few great pearls which
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16 Page 313 reasons are chary of information, nor will they make such pi
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17 Page 317 eighteen to fifty-two and three-quarter grains each, the lat
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18 Page 314 swallowed. He placed the value of that at $375,000. As the S
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19 Page 315 large as hen's eggs in the possession of the Rajah of Borneo
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20 Page 316 attention. They pass therefore among those considered unwort
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21 Page 318 weighed 93 grains and was sold to the Empress Eugenie.
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