Perhaps there is no real mystery, but to a layman it is certainly perplexing and we should be glad of an explanation. On the table of the editor of this paper there stands (or did stand until three nights ago) a heavy glass inkstand. It is something of an historical curiosity, as by—the compradore's evidence, it has been on the editor's table for over 40 years. It measures about four and half inches square by three inches high—just a solid block of cut glass, with a well for the ink scooped out in it. When the editor went. to. dinner on Wednesday evening the inkstand was as usual On His return from dinner he found it still in the same place but split almost accurately in half. and the ink oozed out on the table. He is satisfied on careful inquiry that this was not the work of any careless coolie or other—person. Had it been dropped on the floor, one doubts whether so solid a block of glass would have broken; and in any case why the ink on the table? Again, i would hardly have been possible to break where it stood, without disturbing other things Besides a blow would surely have chipped the glass, which. however. is perfectly clean cut. Was it, perhaps. the heat? Yet in ite 40 years, it has stood far higher temperatures than Wednesday's.
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