Show DIAMONDS FROM THE HEAVENS they have been secured for the mineral exhibit of the exposition two absolutely unique specimens have been secured for or toe mineral exhibit of the columbian exposition these are a mass of 0 meteoric iron from arizona weighing fix six hundred and thirty two pounds and a smaller piece from the game same locality which ia is far more interesting because in it are plainly plainly seen the first diamonds ever discovered covered ia in meteoric iron prof A I 1 E foote of philadelphia r read ead a paper before the geological section of the american association at its recent meet meeting in I 1 in washington in which be he detailer the discovery of the diamonds in a fragment of one of these shooting stars the diamonds are little ones but the field of scientific speculation they open up as to the origin of the gem and life on other worlds than ours is immense the specimens were found near cannon canno n bablo blo arizona aiona last june prof foote sent a fragment weighing forty pounds tu prof 0 A koering for examination iio found it to be extremely bard hard a day and a half being taken in making a section and several chisels bading broken in the operation an emery wheel was ruined rained in trying to polish the section this led to closer of certain exposed cavities where small mall black diamonds were found that out polished corundum as easily as a knife might cut cat gypsum these thes s diamond are gersum of great interest the presence of such in meteoric matter having been unknown till 1987 when two russian mineralogists found traces of diamonds in a meteoric mixture of olivine and |