Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — GRUB CAUSED GREAT LOSS. [ARTICLE]

GRUB CAUSED GREAT LOSS.

By Falling Among Diamonds a Commotion Was Created. X A salesman in one of the bigUßestnut street jewelry stores recently lost a few small diamonds through, a very pe-i culiar accident, says the Philadelphia! Record. The salesman had taken thej diamonds out of the big safe and was! counting them in the rear office ofj the store, when the accident oecurred. ( He had spread the stones out on a largesheet of tissue paper and was sorting them in the bright light which cams down through a glass skylight directly 1 above him. In the woodwork surrounding the glass in the ceiling an insignificant grub worm was working! away industriously. The man below 1 knew nothing of the existence of the Worm, nor did he realize the part it wad shortly to play in his affairs. Suddenly! the worm broke through the outer shell 1 of the wood and fell plump upon the sheet of tissue paper, scattering the diamonds right and left. The salesman worked for two hours in gathering up the tiny precious stones and then found that four of the stones were still missing. This meant sls or S2O to him, for that was what the lost stones were worth. He never recovered them, but he threw the grubworm into the stove and watched it burn with fiendish satisfaction.