Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — The Czar's Crown. [ARTICLE]

The Czar's Crown.

' The Russian crown and other insignia, together known as “the crown Jewels,” are valued at $h1,000,000, the crown itself being reckon*! at $6,00Q,000. It is adorned with 'hundreds ol diamonds, worth all the way from a few dollars up to many thousands. Besides the diamonds there are fiftyfour magnificent pearls set around the rfih, with a ruby of an extraordinary size for a center piece. T 1& crown was made by Pauzie, the 'Genevese jeweler and was first worn by Cathey lnethe Great. The Orloff diamond forms the tip of the scepter used on all state occasions J F. Spitler, at the P.O. will tu e your suLseript.on for the Indianapolis b'eatiwd - th* h?st paper in India]