Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — Diamond-Cutting. [ARTICLE]

Diamond-Cutting.

Diamond-cutting, which has hereto® fore been carried on almost exclusively by the Jews of Amsterdam, has been taken up aud successfully prosecuted by a class of twenty-three young women of Itoxbury, Mass. The girls cut and polish the diamonds in a superior manner, and are found to be admirably adapted for tliat branch of industry-, which seems to open a new field for female operatives. Thiers is bale and hearty, and his walk, carriage, dress and conversation are not those of an old man. He wears neither whiskers nor mustache, and, like the Iron Duke of England, shaves himself with an untrembling band; indeed, the morning hour devoted to the razor is his favorite time for receiving visitors,