Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1891 — Black Pearls. [ARTICLE]

Black Pearls.

It fe not often that women hare admirable jewels and are not aware of the fact This story, told by a New York paper, may or may not be true, but it is worth repeating: When the late Mrs. John Jacob Astor died she left all her personal property, including her splendid collection of jewels, to her husband. When the late John Jacob Astor was about starting for Europe last summer he sent the precious casket of jewels as a gift to his daughter-in-law, Mrs. William Waldorf Astor. ' Mrs. Astor, who was in town onl. to say good-by, sent the box to a safedeposit, company unopened, and then returned to Newport During the summer she saw a woman at the Casino wearing black pearls. •Oh, Fd like to have some black pearls!” she exclaimed. •‘But you have all the Astor jewels.” “Yes, but I’ve never opened the jewel case and don’t know what’s in it.” “What!” gasped a half-dozen women in various stages of collapse. “Well, yon just send for it at once.” The case was duly forwarded, and theism. sure enough, were the celebrated Astor pearls, a set unequaled in the .world for size, color, and symmetry. American clams are to be planted at various points on the English coast, in the hope that they may be propagated <or the market. «