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It came Into the possession of the British crown as a part of the spoils of the conquest of India and it will doubtless remain as one of the English royal jewels as long as the empire shall last, for such Jewels are inalienable And can only be wrested from Jrftain by force of arms an event that is exceedingly improbable of occurrence. Where this greatest of diamonds originally came from no one can tell All - that' is gulhaatlfe of ..regarding it comparative recent date' It was in 1783 that Its existence first came to the notice of Englishmen through the visit of a British ambassador to the mogul court of the Rajah Jehanjir Aurung-zeJehanjlr's grandson, wore the stone in his turban and This (landed it down to Shah Alum (nonarch and bis two successors were murdered and the mogul empire was fast going to pieces. In 1849 a mutiny of two Sikh regiments gave the English an excuse to Interfere, and the Rajah Dbullp-Sinmere boy, was Induced to sign a treaty, which provided for the annexation of his dominion to the British possessions and for the transfer of the Lahore treasure to the East Indian Company to reimburse It for the war expanses. There was a proviso that should be presented the to Queen Victoria. Thus In 1880 the great diamond of India reached England and became one of the crown jewels. It then weighed Koh-l-Noo- b g, Koh-I-No- 186 or carats. ciamonda have acquired a celebrity. For many years Other iworld-wid- e mond in the world the Pitt or Regent day an object lesson fiom which the diamond whoie' world may derive warning and The list of famous diamonds might be instruction on the questions of mar stretched out much longer There Is rlage and the famllly, those greatest the Nassak, which was stolen from a of social Influences Atnslees temple of Shira and now shows Its beauty In the duke of Westminster a sword hilt Bod C lub Habit. Corod There Is the Hastings diamond, The visitor front Milwaukee waa which was part and parcel of the Wartalking about the disrespect shown to ren Hastings ecandal and inspired th speakers at a recent big dinner many a street ballad There is the which he attended in this city. "In great Austrian yellow, weighing 139 my club In Milwaukee the same condicarats, among the Austrian crown jew- tions used to prevail, be said, "but els now It is different By the time cigar There is the Darya-l-Nu- r, which is were around there used to be a numthe shah of Persia's chief pride. It is ber of men who would not refrain the finest Jewel In his regalia, weighs from talking and laughing while the 186 carats and is set in a bracelet, with answers were made to the toasts The the for companion The speakers would be embarrassed and 96 1 000,000 bracelets are valued at per cent of the men at the table anThe Pasha of Egj pt, a forty-carnoyed But a few weeks ago an atstone, is the finest diamond in the torney began to speak Then he Mr Chairstopped for a moment Egyptian treasury. The Green Dresden, In the Green vaults at Dresden, man, he said, I move you that a comcarats and Is Saxonys mittee be instructed to take down all weighs 48 the names of those who have persisted boast The Nizam belonged to the nlzam of In talking and laughing during the llydeiabad and weighed 340 carats, but speeches tonight, and that charges be preferred against them If they are nothing certain is known of it now The Plgott diamond, like the Regent members of the club If not members and the Hastings stones, was connected 1 ask that they be excluded from fuWhen the applause subwith the Anglo-India- n An ture dinners scandals sided the chairman said he thought sold It All to merrhant English finally there would be no further InterrupPasba, who treasured It mightily PhilaAnd there was none When mortally wounded he ordered tion his favorite wife killed and the dia- delphia Times He mond destroyed In his presence Presidential Chair. would leave neither to another man The chair which President McKinley The first order was not carried out, but the second was olieyed, and that occupied at sessions of the cabinet I now the property of Seeretarjr Cortel-yo- u. diamond vanished from history. It has been the custom for the president to present to aom retiring MARRIAGE IN FRANCE. friend the chair used by him while preHtrlklag Facta and DIAealt Prob- siding over the meetings of the cabinet President Harrison gave bla chair to lem Pmeaatad. It Is a mere truism to say that the Executive Clerk Crook, and the latter 'welfare of the individual, of society regards it as one of his most valued and of the state Is best served by mar- possessions. President Cleveland preriage, and by early marriage, too. The sented his chair to his private secrefact has been established tor forty tary, Paniel S. Lamont There la a lav years that the death rate among all which requires that government prop married men over twenty years of age erty shall not he given away, bat that clghty-nlne-car- at Taj-e-M- Along one of the ordinary post and telegraph lines between Paris and Bordeaux some extraordinary telegrapht been accomplished. While ing the regular operators were sending and receiving back and forth their usual messages experimenting men of science had tapped the line, attached new Instruments to It and were engaged in sending back and forth other massages of which the regular operators gould not possibly have taken cognisance even had they been aware of their existence. Th regular operators of the government service were using in one case s Morse duplex apparatus, which permits the (reversible) transmission ot two Simultaneous messages, and in the other a Baudot apparatus with four keyboards, which permits the sending of fouf messages In one direction. JShnpIy Connecting their new apparatus with tbe same wires, the experimenters succeeded in sending and receiving, simultaneously and in each direction, twelve other messages, maksimultaneous ing, in all twenty-fou- r messages plus the two messages of the Morse duplex or the four messages of ThU was actbe Baudot apparatus complished not only as a scientific novelty, but practically and continuously (or hours at a time, In a test to establish the commercial usefulness of thf Invention. In this way it was demonstrated that the entire first page of a great newspaper, containing almost 9.000 words, can be sent from baa-jus- 2) placed between the two forks, communicating on tbe one side with the at three points on its suiface, on metal stems fixed to a radius of a circular platpole of a small battery and on the rollers other side with the tuning fork and form which supports them. Now, the with a steel stylus of necessary length dlauit-te- r ot each membrane depends on fixed to one of the branches in front the half-ton- e of its first harmonic of a platinum plate communicating si 3 (480 vibrations per second), do 2 with the other pole of the battery. It (612 vibrations), do sharp ( (643), and it sufficient to put in contact the two so on. from half-tonto la sharp 4 poles for the electricity to act on the (900 about), inclusively. Eeach one of branches of the tuning fork (diapa- the membranes (thin metallic disks! son), breaking the contact, which re- is thus tuned exactly with one of the establishes itself when the branches transmitting electro-diapaso(tuning return toward their primitive position, forks) at the other end of the line. and so on continuously. A second stylus, or transmission styPublic Spirit Is Japae lus, Is fixed to the second branch by a modern The Japan which the Mar screw Insulated from the tuning fork Ito's policy has brought forth was This is put in quls by a block of ivory made possible by the religious devotion communication by an Insulated alluml-nuwire with the pole of another of nobles and coolies to the empegor, which made the imperial wishes liw; battery, or battery of transmission, of the intense patriotism and the offiby which the other pole Is connected with a platinum plate by the Intermediary cial integrity of the retainers of the, of one of the wires of an Induction Diamyos, who have become the officers transformer. During the movement of of the army and navy and member ef thd tuning fork (maintained as de- tbe civil service, writes Frederick Palmer in Scribners. As an Occidentscribed), each time that the transmission stylus touches the connection al, I should place Integrity as the first .with the battery the battery sends a cause. When you have official servants so proud that even the postman will current through the wire of the transformer. This wire is, then, traversed not accept a Christmas gift, a stateseach second by a number of currents man knows that, whatever th errors equal to the number of vibrations of of construction may be, the timbers the tuning fork. The result Is an are sound. As long at men become equal number of induction currents or policemen on less than a coolies pay vibration In the wire No. 2 of the tor tbe honor of serving the governtransformer, identical with those In ment it will never lack for first-clathe direct wire, from which the word ability to fill Its offices. Japan may, Do e, ns m u diee Uf d Ut4 4 1 3 nrturBl natural Monotelepftoae jCv ., ss receiver ci i H pot-ed- , o-- i TIGURE receiver ili receiver Recepteur XJ-- M Refdup telernicro. phOAiqyt Li$ne.l Ijty s m Isolde) th Hope Blue, as a blue diamond In ls less than that among unmarried the collection of Henry T. Hope is men; and that the death rate among twenty-fiv- e called, has held a unique place as being all married women over In Is among that less than of diamond years blue age finest the long odds fiy world. It weighs only 44 carata, unmarried women. The home being sociut la of a beautiful sapphire bine, the cornerstone of clvlllxed life, Is flawenriched the multiplication ety by excellent In shape, and absolutely of homes, and Impoverished when they less. are not In normal proportion to the Mr. Hope bought It for 18,000, but total population. Only within the past 30,000. about at it la valued today e few years has attention been wrapThe origin of the atone has fact that been drawn to the startling as is the case g ped la some uncertainty, of a mighty nation is the is It but with most great diamonds, menaced by the predominance of celiBlue practically certain that the Hope bacy. More than half the men and Is on of three fragments into which half the women of France are unthe famous French Blue was divided married. The foreign immigration after being stolen with tbe other re- Into France is today greater than the MeuMe. natural Increase of its own - people. galia from the Garden Shah Jehan had owned many of the The excels of births over deaths in most famous Jewel of the Orient, any year among those many millions of the among them the Great Mogul. The amounts to only about Great Mogul weighed 900 carats in the population of Newark, N. J. The refine sult 4s that while other nations of Eurough and was true diamond of water, shaped like an egg cut in half. rope are rapidly increasing In populaThe Orloff diamond, which orna- tion, France Is almost stationary. ments the Ru6dan royal scepter, is While, a century ago, Frenchmen comof Mountains prised a fifth of the European poula-tlo- n larger than the Moon yellowslightly so being of the world, they now form only pure, not but ish. It, too, was an Indian cut stone a tenth of It The Importance of thetr world-wid- well-bein- one-ha- lf and weighs 193 carats. Another famous diamond Is the EuII. of Russia had genie. Catherine Jewel In a hairpin. this was then She gave it to Potemkin, who In his until was family It her lover. hla grandniece sold it to Napoleon II., It wag the Who gave It to Eugenie. center diamond of the famous necksold to the lace which was afterward at galkwar of Baroda. Jewels have had The French royal varied careers and many of the best were lost before Eugenie, th diamond France has lover, came to power; but dia most the perfect what is, perhaps, CoalS Happa Oaljr I a City. New York la a pretty big place after alL Two men from the same country stx town came to tbe. metropolisWithmonths ago on different traina. out knowing It they put up at the same apartment house. In fact their rooms adjoined, hut It was hot until two men knew yesterday that these that they lived In the sameto house. meet - happened Thcr comor In their In goings each other different busiings out They were In.what are you Jim "Hello, nesses hdnver , irtkltwtin la Japaa. European architecture la gradually gaining a foothold in Japan and must sooner or later dominate. Just aa European styles of dress are soon to dominate In the big cities. In Toklo and other large centers of population all the new business houses are built on European plans. They are found to be more practicable. The residences are still of tbe Japanese style. Some of the larger and finer residences lh the cities are built like American houses, but most stick to the old customs The government does not own 1U buildings, but rents them, and these, without exception, are of European design. The Europeans and Americans never stop at the Japanese hotels, because they can not do without chairs. Our hotels have nothing but couches. Correspondence Washington Post Basils a Favorite DUk. country as a world power Is not growf of Aa is well known, certain species ing. Their International commerce lags far behind that of other leading Snail form a favorite dish with French nations. How empty Is tbe boast of gourmets, and the cultivation ot these rattlepated orators that France will land molluscs Is conducted on a large some day gloriously avenge Sedan, scale In the Outlying suburbs of Paris, when she can add only 300,000 conparticularly in tbs departmsnt of scripts a year to the army, while 600,-00- 0 Aube, where there are large snail garrecruits are annually enrolled dens, with plantations of thyme, mint, across the Rhine! We shall apeak parley, and chervil for the animals to later of tbe mistaken motives, the feed on. When a Frenchman takes policy ruinous alike to tbe citizen and snallg wild he leaves them, If prudent the state, that Induce many of the a te days to digest their last meal, French to restrict the number of their for there Is a current belief that they children, and half of them to go may be dangerous If they have re- through life unmarried. France la to- - csntly ted on poisonous plants. doing here?" said Bill yesterday when be met Jim coming ont of the same apartment house. Why, I live here. Bill. What, are you doing here?" "I live here, too, Jim." This would appear an incredible story to some of the Suns friends who live In country towns and village. New York Sun- .- FIGURE disposed of at auction. No one has ever questioned the right of the. president to give away his chair, however. Secretary Cortelyou waa very anxious to get the chair which his chief had occupied for so long, and it was accordingly officially condemned, put up for sale, and bought in by the devoted secretary. Buffalo Commercial. handful of tobacco stems, place them In an old basin, pour boiling water upon them and let them stand for several hoars. Then drain off the liquid In a basin or tub deep enough for Immersing the tops of your plants In, and dilute it with warm water untl lit shows only a faint tint of brown. Then take up the plants one TokHM tkt But iMMttalte a time, and hold them, tops down, at Most of the insects common to house in th water, washing them clean. as dislike aa tobacco mnch he plants ' . does the cleanly housewife. The best Ladies Home Journal, He who avoids temptation avoid way to use It as an insecticide upon window plants' is to secure a good pin. m 'it Tuning fork instruments it must be formally condemned and K K terre CondenaAteyrj t PROF. MERCADIEK Paris to Bordeaux along a single wire In one hour by means of the new invention simply, or by means of the new Invention' and a Baudot apparatus working simultaneously In little more than a bait bour, during which half hour tbe Bordeaux authorities may transmit to Parts by means ot th new invention a text equivalent to a half page of the same newaaper, always along the sqme solitary single circuit Or should this seem less remarkable to Americans, habituated to tbe Wheatstone automatic device, than to Parisians, It may be stated that 1,300 seperate and unprepared telegrams of twenty words each may be sent In a single hour over th single circuit by means of this wonderful Invention. Th Inventor of the new system Is Professor E. Mercadler. director of studies of ths famous Ecole Polytechnique, the occupant of an Important chair In the Ecole 8uperieure des Posts et Telegraphes end chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Hi actual transmitting devtcs, as Professor Mercadler showed and described It, consists essentially of what he has named electrodiapason lnducto-phone- s, of which but threeare shown In the accompanying figure (Diagram No. 1). In place of three, the reader must suppose twelve, for tbe sending of the twelve simultaneous messages mentioned at the outset of tbe article. A diapason Is a tuning fork, L c., a forked piece of metal of such size and thickness that it vibrates Invariably oh a certain single tone. An Is one 'electrically electrodiapason maintained in a continuous vibratory movement. In th present eaae by mean of an electro-magn("E, Fig. et inductophone la given to the Instru' ment. Now, at each end of tbe line (or disposed at different points along the line If desired) there ere twelve of these electrically vibrating tuning forks (electrodiapasons), each tuned to a note ot the chromatic scale fox, an entire octave do, re, ml, fa, sol, la, half tones. si and The tuning fork No. I, for example, is constructed so aa to vibrate on the note of "si I and makes 480 vibrations per second. Tbs tuning fork No. 2 Is (say) tuned to "do 4 and makes 612 vibration in the asm time and ao on, from tnnlng fork to tuning fork.up to "la sharp 4," which make about 900 vlgratlons a second, The actual apparatus Is eomposed ot a cylindrical box surrounded by a glass cover and containing an energetic magnet whose core is wound as la sn ordinary telephone, but whose telephonic membrane (which Is a metallic disk about two millimetres 1& thickness). Instead of being fastened around Its circumference Is simply ing well reverence her old military aristocracy, with Its false punctilios. BlfiMI Butk la Texas. The --X. I. T." In the Pan Handlq Is ths greatest ranch In Texas, smbrac-'- T ing half a' dozen counties and containing nearly 2,000,000 acres. The ranch la divided Into seven sections, each managed by a foreman, and each connected with the headquarters by means of telephones. Ths whole is rup with the system end dispatch which characterize! alT great lndaa- tries. Oh this ranch now run considerably more than 100,000 head of cattle, and an Idea of the site may be gained from the fact that the pasture fence extends 210 miles in on direction and In another, making a total twenty-liv- e of 6,000 square miles. From time 'to time small parcels of tbe land have been sold, and meanwhile valuations bav appreciated from fifty cents an acre to four times that amount Detroit Free Press. V. |