Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — One of Nature’s Queer Freaks. [ARTICLE]

One of Nature’s Queer Freaks.

A local shell dealer in Atlantic City, N. J., while going over a consignment of imported shells recently, found a curious freak of nature in the shape of a -hell on which was plainly decipherable he word “Paris." The letters forming 'he word were very irregular, and a close examination showed them to be natural and a part of the shell. The shell on which is to be seen this strangely formed word, is a native of the Islands of Mauritius. It will be placed in the \cademy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.