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Show Joslin k Park's Diamond. Tho Cardiff" (Wake) Times furnishes fur-nishes us with the following: "Why does not some one writo n history of remarkabio gema ? If it wcro prop er!y done it would contain incidents enough to make a most interesting narrative. Hero is a small contribution contribu-tion to the suggested woik. Tneru is a diamond now for t ale at Brigham Young's capital, Salt Luke city. It weighs Sj karats, and is half an inch in diameter. For munu hundred years it was in the family ol an East Indian, prince. By him it was presented pre-sented to lueen Christina of ?pain, who gave it to her daughter, Ialielle, on the occasion of her mariiage. The ex queen of Spain was forced to part with it. After she had abdicated a gentleman from St. Lmiis, United States, bought the jewel at an auction in Loudon. Sub-jequeuily it was stolen from him at Saratoga dpiings. He got it buck by giving a reward of 1,000 and 'no questions aaked.'j Afterward the purchaser went to Salt j i.i-n ;in ,uiiam i, ...u .i ra mming property valued at $22,000. The mine developed well and the lucky speculator made over $00,000 by his bargain. The diamond passed into rude bands. The miner who bad bought it was cheated out of it by some Chicago gamblers, who sold it tu a diamond dealer, who in turu sold it to tbe firm in Salt Lake city, which now possesses the atone." |