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Show IMITATION .JEWEL, .COLORS. Diamonds 'Found in Canadian Woods- New Gem from Rhodesia. Rho-desia. "About ?5,000,000 worth or imitation Jewels are made in the United States every year," says an expert. "A great many people think that paste 'jewels, as they are called, are nothing but pure glass, but in this they aro mistaken. mis-taken. The stijff Id a, paste, called strass, which, differs from ' ordinary glass In having' one of tho metallic oxides as a base. "These oxides give the gem its color. The diamond being colorless, none ot the oxides are used, The ruby is made by mixing the strasa wirh a small proportion of glass of antimony, purple cnsslus and an extremely. 'rimall particle or gold. Sapphires aro made with stras3 and cobalt, the emerald by oxide ot copper' and oxide or manganese; mangan-ese; the amethyst with cobalt and ox- I lde or manganese, and the garnet with purple of casslus. ' "A new gem, light blue in color, has lately been discovered in Rhodesia. It J is believed that fhe gem will bo fashionable. fash-ionable. Few ot the stones are seen In New York, but a great many have been shown in London. Perhup3 you didn't know that there Is supposed to be a great diamond flejd up in the northern central part of C "-1a. "Diamonds are constantly being found in tho woods of Canada, and last year a stone, picked "up by an Indian, In-dian, was sold to a-white man for 85 cents.'' The white man hurried to Detroit De-troit with it, and got ?1,500 n6m a jeweler tor his Investment. It1 1 be- lleved by scientists that the diamond bed exists in the "north', 'and ,'Yhat the diamonds were .brought Into 'the Routh :entral part by prehistoric glaciers." ) |