Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1890 — Mrs. Cleveland’s Diamonds. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Cleveland’s Diamonds.

PhriadeTphliFresß. Mrs. Cleveland’s total collection of diamonds, set and unmounted, is estimated as being worth certainly $50.000. On the day of her marriage Mrs. Cleveland received a magnificent ring and necklace of solitaires from her husband, diamond pins for her hair from Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, but tbe first diamond ring which Mrs. Cleveland ever possessed was a tiny little star of diamonds, which she wore upon the little finger of the right hand on the occasion of their marriage. This ring was the gift of a friend in Now York who had known Mrs. Cleveland from early ehildhood. and who, hearing her mention the fact that she had never owned a diamond, sent the little glittering star a few days before the wedding. Since then, iib oll birthdays and at Christmas, Mr. Cleveland’s gifts to his wife have taken the form of diamonds. The unmounted gems, of which she has quite a collection, are of her own choosing. Her unset stones are not very large, and some are off color, it is true. These •tones are arranged) in little cabinets

■ of inlaid wood; the cabinet* are provided with tiny little nests filled with eotton, and in them the diamonds rest. Each tiMt ha* itaimwVir and a memorandum book tells after each number the time and place of purchase, and,' practical woman that she is, the value of the stone.