Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — Eleven Millions in Jewels. [ARTICLE]

Eleven Millions in Jewels.

The Russian crown and other state jewels are valued at the enormous sum of $11,000,000, taking United States money as a basis of calculation ; the crown itself is worth at least $6,000,000. It is adorned with hundreds of diamonds, individual specimens of which are valued at all the way from a few dollars up to enormous sparklers w’orth thousands upon thousands of dollars. Besides the diamonds, which make this costly headdress look as if it had been buried in a shower of falling stars, there are fifty-four pearls,each without a flaw, set around the rim, a ruby of extraordinary size andbrilliancy being used as a centrepiece. The-crown was made by Panzie, the old-time Genoese court jeweler, and was first used by Catherine the Great. —[New York Journal. i The valley of the Ganges is the otronghold of Hindooism. There arte 13,000,000 men of military »ge in the United States.