Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1891 — A Bible with 168 Pins In It. [ARTICLE]

A Bible with 168 Pins In It.

It was a Bible, a family Bible, a wellworn family Bible—the Bible of an old lady who read it, and walked by it, and fed on it, and prayed over it for a long life-time. As she grew older, her sight began to fail, and she found it hard to find her favorite verses. But she could not live without them, so what did she do! She stuck a pin In them, one by one, and after her death they counted 168. When people went to see her she would open her Bible, and, feeling over the page after her pin, would say: “Read there,” or “Read here,” and she knew pretty well what verse was struck by that pin. She could, indeed, say of her precious Bible: “I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold; they are sweeter to me than honey and the honeycomb.” Dice similar to those of our day have been found in Thebes. The Greeks gave the names of their gods and heroes to the different throws. The invention of dice is very anciept, and is variously ascribed to the Greeks and Egyptians, and by Herodotus to the Lydians. Diamonds were found In Brazil in 1728. The diamond was first proved to be combustible in 1694 by the Florentine academicians, who found that when exposed to the heat of the sun in the focua of a large lens '.t burnt away with a blue lambent flam*- i