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Show uu FAMOUS DIAMONDS. Quite a lengthy article was cabled from London on tho pomp and show in connection with the opening parliament parlia-ment with ancient pageantry by King George. In connection with the de-! seription of the robes and jewels the announcement was made that Queen Alary wore the wonderful crown jewels, jew-els, including the Cullinan diamond. This Cullinan diamond was the largest larg-est known diamond and was named after tho chairma l of the Premier Diamond Dia-mond Mining company of the Transvaal Trans-vaal in whoso mines it was discovered i in January 1005. Its length was four and one-half inches. It was two and one-fourth inches in hoighth and had a broadth of two nml one-half inches. In 1 90S it was cut into nine princl pal parts besides a quantity of ends. The first and the second arc the larg est cut diamonds in existence. The Transvaal government paid $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 for the original stone and presented pre-sented it to King Edward. There are many other famous diamonds dia-monds including the Kohinur, which is also in the possession of the royal family of Great Britain. Tho Orloff is another famous dia- "mond What has hnpponed to this lalonc is a question. It formerly was imbedded in the royal Russian scoptro There is one famous diamond in tho United States. It is tho Hope blue dia 1 inond and this is popularly supposed' to bring ill luck to the owner. It was I presumably cut from a larger stone 1 purchased by Louis XV. It was lost and was purchased in 3830 by Henry Hope, an English banker. In 1909 it (was sold to Mrs. E. E. McLean of Washington, D. C. I The recent announcement of a dia-Imond dia-Imond export is interesting. He do-l do-l clarcs that the known supply of dia-Imonds dia-Imonds in tho world is about, equal in I bulk to a ton of coal. |