Show RUBY MOT MOST VALUABLE OF ALL New York Times Most precious of o all gems in the world orld is the ruby not the diamond and of rubies rubles the most valuable art are anthe the rare pigeon blood rubles a sort of that sparkles and glitters gUtters In Ina Ina ina a truly marvelous fashion The ancients treasured rubies far above diamonds as is shown In the ref ret references references to this jewel j wel in the Bible Of it an ancient Greek au author author thor thoro tells u us that the first ruby rub was Wl we presented to mankind by a stork These birds bird are related by the ancients an lents to al aJ always always ways place plan a ruby ruly In their as a aU I II U I charm against a serpents Aeolean ln in I hl h hI his I ancient Greek treatise on animals re relates lates the same seme story of or the stork and tile ruby rubyI I There are arc two sorts of recognized rubles the Oriental or true ruby and the Uw ruby rub The former is the red variety of ot that scarce c mineral corun corundum corundum corundum dum The ruby is composed of of o magnesia Rubies vary from a pallid rose red and deep red to cochineal l and finally pass Into the class cla s of or the or pigeons blood The greatest of the thereal thereal thereal real rubles rubies have come CORle from Burma and from India and have been found in only very erT constricted sections of these spinet ruby TUby has been found in Europe and the United States Stat and stones lave have been obtained from South America But ruby rub mines such as an the diamond mines of or South Africa have never been located loc ted and the real rubles are found few ew and far between The stones were considered to have the magic power of turning pale pel when brought near poison and ancient monarchs and tyrants prized them for this i supposed virtue The most moat historic ruby is probably that in the center of the great dia diamond diamond mond mend cross in the state crown of King icing Edward VII of England It was given to Edward the Black Prince by b the cruel Dom Dam Pedro of Castile when the British prince took an army arm into the peninsula to regain the others kingdom for tor him |