Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — Diamonds. [ARTICLE]

Diamonds.

“Please tell me how much that trar of diamonds is worth*? . I asked a cleric at Tiffany’s the other day, pointing to a tray about eighteen inches longandtwelve wide, on which .were rings, crosses, necklaces, brooches, etc., of “purest ray serene.” “ Well, about $400,000, madanie.’* They were the celebrated, or a part dt the celebrated diamonds Tiffanv had on exhibition at the Centennial, and. said to have been removed on account of the proprietor’s fear of robbery. They ate beautiful beyond compare. Two set as ear-drops are as large as marble each. An ornament for the hair is shaped like a peacock’s tall when spread. The brilliants m this ornament are each as large as the heaA-eC a . lead pencil. There are pearls and emeralds mixed with the diamonds, but not many. Four hundred thousand dollars 1 Just think of it for precious wares, covering eighteen inches of blue Velvet. The poor clerk who was guarding the tray looked nerVous. He was watching everybody standing near the case in which it lay and if but a finger rested on the glass he grew doubly sensitive .and watchful. He made me think of a woman at Loqg Branch one summer who carried $50,000 worth Of diamonds in a pocket under her skirt, and her hand fast on the skirtoyer the pocket. She kept saying; “Dear me; I look queer with holding all the time to my dress so; but I’ve got so manv diamonds, and I mutt tak-j care of them.” She slept, and wafted, and ate- with those precious stones concealed; but she wept to bathe in the ocean, left them in her room, and in one-half hour they We stolen. Sdme of them have been recovered, after great expense and trouble.—AT. r.JMter to i —The late Ptof. Snell, of Awheret Colleeo, kept a weather record tor more than thirty yean, taking- observations titfde timeeaday. Since his death his daughter has continued the work.,