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Show GEORGIA boy of seventeen is C feet 7inches high and weighs -J 10 pounds. A PEAR on exhibition in New York' city weighs six pounds four ounces. -g SQUAsnES weighing from :;r0 to ::0 pounds are common in southern Culi- A LrrCHFiRi.n ,' itian who is looked m to stands seven feet seven inches in his slippers. - '',: ;. Defiance, la.; has a man five feet six inches in height who weighs but sixtv-five sixtv-five pounds. - - .:i,,i New muslin curtains are distinguished from those of last season by bein. I...-ished I...-ished with a narrower hemsUtc lie styles in these goods vary as the do in handkerchiefs. Every deed which is recorded in New York must be executed in duplicate-The duplicate-The actual deed, which is iriveu 111 for record, is bound into a book and retained re-tained in the record cilice. This is a check against forgery aud blackmailing. Havana has about four thousand conveyances, con-veyances, and the drivers are the most unscrupulous men in the business. They could give the old time hack men at Niagara Falls points and .then beat them in getting fares. A traveler from Brooklyn sums up the situation in three sentences: "Ride at the peril of your purse.' walk at the peril of your life. If yoa Li they will rob you. If you attempt at-tempt to walk they will run over you." A novel and delightful wedding gift was one received by a very recent bride. Ad oblong box covered with gold plush, upon being opened, revealed a satin-lined satin-lined interior of the same rich l)ue fitted with tiny compartments. In every one lay a shining gold coin, of every denomination denom-ination from one dollar, ranging upward to the largest coin, the whole aggregating aggregat-ing nearly oue hundred dollars. Britisl weights and measures those now in use in the United States are based upon the weight of a cubic inch of distilled water, which parliament, in the reign of George IV., decided to be 25-, 453 grains. Recent experiments show that a cubic inch of water at the temperature of maximum density equal 252, 2S6 standard groins. On this account scientists arc urging the readjustment read-justment of the gallon, bushel, etc. According to tne atomic theory, all matter is composed of small particles of matter called molecules. Between the molecules are spaces called pores, much larger than the molecules themselves. them-selves. Both molecules and pores are so small that the most powerful microscope micro-scope cannot detect them. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, says the Albany Argus, the follow-lowing follow-lowing simple experiment is convinc- Fill a wide-mouthed bottle completely full of alcohol or kerosene. Then drop small tufts of cotton batting upon the surface of the liquid. The batting will immediately absorb a portion of the liquid, and will then sink below the surface. Repeat this operation several times, and it will then be noticed that the bottle does not seem to be quite full of the liquid, although if the experiment experi-ment has been carefully performed, none has overflowed. Now, by means of a fine wire, push the cotton to the bottom of the bottle and add more. In this way a large amount of cotton may be added before the liquid will overflow. The only satisfactory explanation seems to be that the molecules of each substance enter the spaces between the molecules of the other. ; . SEX IN DIAMONDS. A Jeweler Who Believes There Is Sex in Everything, Even In Diamonds. In the big show window of a New York jewelry store rested a small tray that gathered a crowd of curious spectators spec-tators to the window. Every time the sunlight played upon the plate glass tho tray corruscated with prismatic hues of dazzling brilliancy. The tray is well known to the trade. It is designed de-signed to display the remarkable variations varia-tions of the color of large African mine diamonds, and contains examples of all the colors known. It possesses great interest for novices in gems, and tho jeweler is called upon half a dozen times a day to explain the beauties of the tpeoimens. - ' "It took a long time to get this collection col-lection together," the jeweler said, "and it is the only one in the town of the kind ttius arranged. You see here the brown diamond, the absinthe, the canary or yellow, the gpxnf the pink, the rote, and the coffee aud the pfrcen diamond. The effect of these combinations combina-tions in the sunlight is entrancing. Each predominant hue seems to impart a distinct luster to the pribinatic scintillations. scintil-lations. When the tray is swung to and fro in the sunbeams it gives forth as you see a perfect blaze of rainbow colors. These gems also illustrate different dif-ferent cuttings of the diamonds. 'Were they all set in a bracelet or a brooch or a necklace they would make a rarely beautiful trinket, but it would cost a heap of money." The jeweler picked ont one sparkle iciih a- paii oi diamond tweezers and, heid it forward in the show window. ' This is a Bradliaoa gem," he said, "like which there is only one othor in the world, iri Paris, and the French one is not as pure or as large as this. This is what is called a black diamond and is valued at twenty-live hundred dollars. dol-lars. It. vseighs a trifle less than four karats. Its beauty lies in the fact that it changes its color iu different lights. In this strong sunlight you see it is almost al-most black, but it gives forth a prismatic pris-matic radiance greater than that emit-.ed emit-.ed by the best of the black gems. In raslight, you observe, the black hue becomes a rich golden brown, and the play of colors is changed, too. Diamonds Dia-monds of this sort are regarded by the superstitious miners as 'gold stones,' that is, gems possessing a power of imparting im-parting good luck to the owner in the search for hidden gold. This stona was secured in Paris, whither it was brought in rough for cutting by a Rio Janeiro merchant. "Here," continued the jeweler, "is another curiosity." He picked up a three-karat white stone with the tweezers. tweez-ers. "It is a specimen that will prove to you that there is a dirterence of sex in the gems. This is what is called the female, amultiplying diamond." He huld the gem under a strong mag-lifying mag-lifying glass and pointed to four or ive smaller diamonds, clustered about me of the facets at the edge of the ta-jle ta-jle of the stone. "The male gem," the leweler said, "is harp-pointed and lever gathers these embryo gems. There is a fine specimen alongside that pink stone. It surprises most people who see those specimens to be told that they are of different sex as well as Colors, Col-ors, but such is the fact." Jewelers' Review. |