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Show Splitting Diamonds. "Do you know that a diamond has a grant or cleavage just tho same as a piece of wood, mineral or crystalline substance?" said a diamond broker to a reporter. "It is possible to split or divide di-vide one into two or more pieces. Sometimes Some-times a large piece is removed at once from a gem by splitting, but it is a process pro-cess attended with much risk. "To accomplish this the stone is carefully care-fully studied, and, its line of cleavage ascertained, it is placed in hardened cement, ce-ment, in the proper position, and the sharp edge of a steel chisel resembling a razor is carefully adjusted so that the division will be at tho points desired, and a smart rap with a hammer is given it. Perhaps no more costly blow may be struck in any mechanical work than this, for in manipulating a largo diamond, dia-mond, if it is unskillfully given, a gem of several thousand dollars' value will be spoiled." New York Mail and Express, |