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Show ALBANI'S JEWELS. When Albani was in Chicago an Inter-Ocean interviewer invaded her boudoir, and caught a glimpse of her jewels. Judging from the ecstatic account, the diva carries a quantity of crystal treasures around with her that would make the khedive of Egypt envious. There was a gold-mounted gold-mounted star with great brilliants hanging attached to a double necklace neck-lace of pearls and gold, given her by the emperor of all the Eusaias at the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand Duchess Marie. Another necklace of pearls and diamonds dia-monds from Queen Vic. A diadera of brilliants studded with diamond bouquets, bou-quets, the Bame which an Indian prince threw at her in London last season, and knocked her down, A gold bracelet with the word "Amite" set in diamonds, from Earl Dudley. The dazzled newspaper-man, finally, unable to contain himself, gives the rein to his Faber and thus continues: "There, piled in a confused mass, a myriad of tangled stare scintillating galaxies and gleaming constellations met the eye at every glance; it was imprisoned light seeking escape; a miniature Golconda, the product of a mine, and all in that small measure. Diamonds, emeralds, rubies and pearls glowed and twinkled. What a sight for a woman! But why enumerate enumer-ate more; there were handfuls, yea 1 quarts of precious gems, tiaras, bracelets, brace-lets, finger-rings, ear-rings, jeweled flowers, still untouched. It is useless to attempt an estimate of the value of these costly evidences of the appreciation apprecia-tion of her admirers. If the reader can judge of the worth of diamonds in heaps, he maybe qualified to compute com-pute the value of these, but not otherwise. other-wise. There were Bingle stones that would bring $10,000, perhaps S20.000, in any market." |