Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-09-12
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PRICELESS NECKLACE THE GREATEST
GEM EVER ExHIBITED-TuE RETURN TO
BUsINEss-PRosPEcT OF A PROFITABLE
CHARACTERIZATION FOR FALL TRAVELLING
--JoTTINos ABOUT TOWN.
From our Special Correspondent.
New York, Sept. 10, 1873.
PRICELESS GEM.
A gentleman Of this eli will exhibit next
week at the Metropolitan Museum neck
lace, the material for which he has been
forty years in collecting. II consists of
eleven sard intdglios All are antique, and
supposed to be OF date two hundred or
three hundred years before Christ. These
vary in size from one which is nearly two
inches in its greatest diameter TO several
not more than three. quarters of an inch.
Suspended near the clasp are two sapphires
and an emerald, also with intdgIio cuttings.
These latter are cingnocentos, or fourteenth
century stones. When held up to the light
the workmanship In the beautiful red of
the translucent sard is found to be fine
specimen of the lapidary's art. The cut
tngs are clearly made, and polished Ii Ike
the rest of the stone. The entire piece is
after the style of the famous Devonshre
gems, first worn by the Duke of Devon
shire mt the coronation of Alexander /. of
Russia. These gems were first mounted
from cabinet OF antiques in possession of
the Duke. They have since been rcmount-
ed for the Countess of Dudley, and were so
exhibited at the last Paris Exposition. 1t
is said that single gem Of the Devonsbire
jewels, though it was a fragment, was sold
for S25, 900. This neckla lace is unique, and
there is no method of fixing its value, but
Tiffany & Co. estimate that il is by far the
most valuable piece of jewelry in this coun-
try.
FALL BUSINESS FAIRLY COMMENCED.
September means business. Summer is
ended. Vacations are over. The play-time
of the year ends with August, and the first
days of autumn show Il revival of business
activity and return to real work. The
summer has been unusually cool and
healthy, and dull. But the prospect for
large and profitable business season is de-
cdedly good. Already there are sure in
dications of a revival of trade, and our
merchants and manufacturers feel healthy
glow of encouragement. Every day now
will bring our wanderers back from the
sea shore and the mountains, to partake
with renewed Zest of the quiet joys Of home,
and engage again in the regular routine of
| life with all the more vigor for the sum-
| mer's recreation.
COSTUMES FOR FALL TRAVEL.
For travelling costumes nothing is more
worn than the ras-terre skirt aud polonaise,
with small, sleeveless jacket, or pelerine OF
the same, in case of milder weather. If
this toilet is made with plain colored skirt,
and the polonaise of a pattern material, the
extra article should match the skirt, not
the polonaise. For instance, if the skirt is
of violet foulandine, with polonaise of the
same color, but with lighter violet spots,
the little jacket would be of plain violet.
| In these costumes a very iavorite mode of
trimmin. is made by bands OF the spotted
| fabrics, cut so short as 10 have the spots in
| straight line. These are used on the plain
material as straps or heading to flounces,
and have the effect of band trimmed with
buttons.
JOTTTNGS ABOUT TOWN.
TIE victim of gang of gamblers, who
poured his sorrows into the Mayors ear,
demanded Justice" and accused the
sports of having stripped him of 'every
dollar he had in the word." If Mr.. Whet-
stone, who is evidently as gritty as whel-
stone, had been a trife sharper, the sharp
ers wouldn't have been able to victimize
him. But If people will run their heads
into dens, they must expect 10 be torn by
the wild beasts.
The Changers paper, The Scyihe, will
appear from Benefits new building on
| Nassau street on the 18Th inst. Already
there is demand for $4,000 copies, which
is certainly sure indication of prosperity
| for the stockholders.
One of the most ungrateful and exactng
| positions on newspaper is that of the ed
itor who manufactures anecdotes illustrat-
ing the ceverness or benevolence of public
men. These anecdotes go down to posteri-
| ty uncontradicted and the manufacturer
never enjoys the glory and excitement of
being called n liar. GOSSIP.