The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-07

Queens of France, but many more
have been precious love gifts or
have been brought as royal dowers
by Princesses from other lands.
The huge diamond in the center OF
the cestus of which I speak, once
glittered in the scepter Of Clovis,
the first Christian King Of France,
and the two magnificent pearls
under the center diadem were worn
by the beautiful Clotilda on the oc-
casion of her marriage with Clovis
at Scissors, A. D., 493. The three
royal gems that glittered in the
helmet of Charles Martel at the
/ terrible battle of Poitiers, are part
of priceless collection. A collar, Of
the whitest of pearls, is here, which
once rested on the bosom OF the
Of the beautiful and unfortunate
Mary, Queen of Scots. Before me
+! is the coronet which crowned the
lovely brow, of Josephine on that
proud day when the husband OF
her heart led her up to 5ne most
splendid throne in Europe. It is
told that when she first appeared
with these superb jewels, that an
old crone who saw her in the dis
tance prophecied the hour OF her
ruin. It was said that the prop.
hecy reached the ears of the EN-
press and haunted her with cruel
foreboding. On the fatal night
when her imperial husband came to
inform her that they must part for
ever, she was wearing the mag
nifcent pearls that now lie before
me; tearing them from her neck
she dashed them on the floor; the
fatal prophecy came back upon her
and she remembered her pearls
and her tears. .,.s.
The estimated value Of this royal
collection is over twenty thousand
millions Of francs. The only won.
der is that, in the midst OF so
many revolutions and changes OF
government, that a single diamond
remains. Rich as this collection is;
and carefully as it is guarded, it has
not always escaped disaster. An
inventory was made Of them by the
order of the Convention Of 1892,
and only a few days after the inven-
tory was completed a descent was
made upon the place where
they where kept, and the whole
of the crown jewels were stolen.
Though forty persons were con-
cerned in the robbery, only two OF
them were ever discovered, and the
discovery Of these two might be
termed a lucky accident. A hair
dresser, by the name of Lamieville,
had been consigned to the Con-
ciergerie for forging and had re-
ceived some kindness from the
Sergeant of the guard. In graft
tude for his good treatment, he
told him of a conversation he had
overheard between two persons the
night before his release. The Ser;
| geant acted on the hints he OBJ
tanned and succeeded in finding
every one of the jewels concealed
in the beams of a -ickety old house
in the Latin qasrter. The two
thieves were afterwards hanged,
| and Lamieville was made Colonel o1
a regiment of the line and fell gal
lantly fighting at Marengo.
I The Exposition is now to be
seen at it's very best and nothing is
more striking than the exquisite
taste exhibited in the different de-
partments in the display of goods
and this characteristic is by nc
means confined to any particular
nationality and it is certainly moi
wholly engrossed by the. French
It is particularly noticeable moi
only in the display Of the goods
themselves, but also III Ine lnSen
ious and tasty manner in which tht
attention of the public is attracted
One firm distributes beautiful bot
ties Of cologne; another has its ad
vertisements set forth on elegan
tablets of satin. Huntley and Pal
mer, the great biscuit manufac
turers Of London, distribute
magnificent illustrated catalogue
displaying in various forms tw'
hundred and twenty eight styles o
biscuit. This book, as a work o
!, art. is one of the marvels of tn
Exposition. Their exhibit, whel
viewed from q little distance, look