Show DIAMONDS amid the reports of imperial mag and artin tr Tin masses waft ed to u by the atlantic cable we have bad the pleasure of recording a triumph of science we refer to the new of the manufacture of artificial diamond by the scotch scientist J ballantin Ball antyn haanah the first report wa with incredulity by all who know of chemistry as too many false of pro tended scientific discoveries and me chanilal ch anical inventions have been circulated the last few years this last new however was substantiated by the attest f prof nevil story maskelyne of the british museum who declared the crystals presented to him by mr hannay as the real genuine diamonds his approbation f the new product deserved the more attention M prof maskelyne had a few weeks ago sadly dis enchanted a mr mactear of scotland whose pretended crystallized carbon he showed up aa common silica in the present case however the tests of the mineralogist and crystallographer aro verified the surfaces of the crystals meet in the characteristic angles of crystallized carbon they scratch polished sapphires sapp hires with ease and which is considered the crucial test they are consumed in flame this latter test may be becom mended to the owners of diamond who with to ascertain the genuine nesa ef their jewels considering the successful event ef these tests prof maskelyne felt justified in declaring that mr hannay had undoubtedly succeeded in producing artificial th ii genius ae complis hed this rare feat of practical chemistry is yet a secret but this will boon be cleared up as the inventor contemplates presenting his process to the koyal society ere long our scotch savant doe not seem to possess the right business knack otherwise he would address himself first to the patent office instead of the ayal society and if he were a yankee like edison we would have read of the formation of a company of large capitalists for the working up of the invention as soon as we learned the latter and the country would be flooded with flaming pros es and posters of a company for the manufacture of diamond walls ac but jokes aside the owners of diamonds need not yet feel very apprehensive with regard to the market value of tren tures for the first thing the manufactured diamonds are as yet simple fine dost useful only for the grinding and polishing of precious tona and oth er jewels but our ladies may object half anxiously half hopefully not nommay boon be all things agia little before thay end large why should this not be the case with the manufacture of there is in reality no irresistible reason why man after having once discovered the method should not be able to manufacture diamonds of any size whatever but still there are some arious difficulties it ii generally rather hazardous speculation to enter in competition with mother stature ITa ture in the grand laboratory of creation things are manufactured very cheap time material and work are of no consid there is aa unlimited sup ply of them in the workshop of the universe the price which we pay for gag ac is nothing mere than the finders reward which we pay the disco Terr of natures profuse treasures after we hare espied froin nature with great expense tine and trouble her process of perU ion in the manufacture of this r that article eur imitation generally terminates in an inter citing and amusing but beldom useful play eitor we do our part so badly that the of nature re bains its value um led or it costs us so much to copy nature success fully that we cannot compete with her producing power after we hare ur laborious result goethe says so truthfully there ll 11 n mm create in beart to penetrate thrice hippy may we call him well to whom ba how her outer thell nobody hai yet good butter with which bout tb aade identical chemical composition and it we at to furnish u tool an artificial produce u the natural one the pr would b BO long and that the moat stupid and indolent cow could beat it in quality rapidity and price shuw imagine it is with the f artificial the is f the require an eminently blower and dearer pr and if acter auld be fabricated in bulk ua bondt would at OBO cew abiog of jewelry and the would become clift ftp that ahir would not pay friou bifilar hare been rod in tb lt yer sapphires Sapp hires and rub ie hr b BI artificially kat lare ben ia bulk they hare entered int c amerce at artificial geu limply kour the of WM more than the price for aboc furn froin nature and treasure tre aure such will be the lot of ll annay iia mendi hi diamond may find applina ap tion where only the hardne of the material not the purity of the water required in tech bat in all other ripe ct the artificial diamond will be not but dimple bo flus importance lid a braat i jaa |