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Show Has Many Crowns. The czar has as many crowns as a fashionable lauy has hats. He is regarded re-garded by his people as a religious as well as a secular monarch, and there fore has crowns for every possibla state occasion. The Russian imperial crown is modeled after a patriarchal miter. Five magnificent diamonds, resting on a huge glowing ruby, form the cross at the summit. Diamonds and pearls of utmost perfection ren der this crown unrivaled among all others, and there is one sapphire in it which is said to be the finest stone of its kind ever mined. |