Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1906 — Stone Gongs. [ARTICLE]

Stone Gongs.

A recent English traveler In China describes some remarkable examples of sounding stones, or “stone gongs,’! which he saw at Chufu. the birthplace and burial place of Confucius. One of the stones, which are composed of a grayish oolitic limestone, has been shaped into a cover for an Incense dish placed iu front of the tomb of the grandson of Confucius. When struck with a stick or with the knuckles it rings like bronze, and the sound is so distinct that it is difficult to believe without inspection that the object is not really composed of metal. A correspondent of Nature describes n bridge at Coricfe, in C*unty Mayo, Ireland, which Is locally known as the “iquslcal bridge,” because the stones forming the coping give out a musical note when struck.