Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — To Test a Diamond. [ARTICLE]

To Test a Diamond.

Here is an easy means of determining whether a supposed diamond is genuine or not. Pierce a hole in a card with a needle, and then look at the hole through the stone. If false, you will see two holes, but if you have a real diamond only a single hole will appear. You may also make the test In another way. Put your linger behind the stone and look at it through the diamond as through a magnifying glass. If the stone Is genuine, you wiy be unable to distinguish the grain of the skin, but with a false stone this will be plainly visible. Furthermore,looking through a real diamond, the setting is never visible, whereas it is with a false stone.—New York Herald. Being a millionaire has its drawbacks. N. C. Creede, who is the founder of the great Colorado mining camp, knows this to be a fact. Every day he receives letters from all parts of the country signed by .women who want to marry him. It might be refreshing for these matrimonially inclined females to know that all such letters and photographs are turned over to his wife. Man is the only animal that can not sleep well after eating heartily.— Exchange. Man is the only animal that takes to Welch. rarebits and similar rest disturbers. No man ever offended his own conscience but first or last it was revenged . upon him for 1L —Si u:h.