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...course I was eager to know more about the find. When I reached Tun-Huang, I was first somewhat disappointed to hear that my friend Sir Aurel Stein, head of the British expedition, had already been in Tun-huang ahead of me and had taken away loads of the precious documents. But my disillusion did not last long. When I entered the cave containing the manuscripts. I saw that most of them were still there. Of the 15000 scrolls, documents, paintings, Sir Aurel Stein had only been able to acquire about one fourth, and, being an Indian...
Since Friedrich Woehler a hundred years ago accidentally manufactured urea, scientists have synthesized more things than exist naturally in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. Carbon is the base of most of these new products. As diamond it is the most precious natural substance, as coal the most valuable. Carbon plus oxygen gives carbon monoxide, whence grows a myriad of compounds; carbon plus hydrogen gives methane, and its myriad; carbon plus nitrogen gives cyanogen, and its myriad; C plus N plus H gives hydrocyanic acid; C plus N plus H plus O gives urea. There are 400,000 carbon derivatives...
...suppositions of the young inspectors. "Open those boxes," they cried. "No," answered the Grand Rabbi. "I won't. Not those." The young men therefore opened the boxes themselves and discovered in them the laws of Moses but not a single diamond. They were the Grand Rabbi's precious tvillim...
...South, selling it at $2 in the North. Some days he bought $800,000 worth, only to lose it (well insured) on the Mason Dixon line. One day, pursued by a Rebel patrol, he tossed them his wallet stuffed with $300,000, and made off with his more precious life...
...that on public occasions bad hats, seedy coats, and pepper-and-salt trousers should be laid aside. The suspicious diamonds displayed by the itinerant tradesmen who replenish their wardrobes from the refuse of our own would in themselves be a sufficient caution against an extravagant display of gold and precious stones in the way of rings, studs, and scarf-pins; and that dress waistcoats are inappropriate companions to sack coats of a morning is a universally acknowledge fact...