Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1915 — Gems That Brought Misery. [ARTICLE]

Gems That Brought Misery.

The history of diamonds and the many other preciom stones, ruby, turquoise, emerald, opal, topaz", sapphire, chrysolite, sardonyx, amethyst, nearly all of which are mentioned in the Scriptures, goes far back of historic times, and is lost in a maze of religion, superstition and legend. It has been intermingled with intrigue, politics and diplomacy; murders galore: scandals unnumbered; imprisonments and beheadings. The story of the “Diamond Necklace," which, possible innocently on her part, smirched the fame of Marie Antoinette was one of the factors in agitation that led to the great French revolution. The Bastile opened to several of the actors in the scandal, one of them Cardinal de Rohan, who was arrested in his robes in die midst of his court. Cagliostro, the famous magician swindler, was another of the Bastlie prisoners, and Countess Lamotte-Valois of royal lineage, who was the chief conspirator, for. pecuniary gain, escaped from the prison to London, where she died in penury.