Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — One of Neture’s Queer Freaks. [ARTICLE]

One of Neture’s Queer Freaks.

A local shell dealer in Atlantio City. V. 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 the word were very irregular, and a dose 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 Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.