Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-02-01
ANIMALS IN JEWELRY.
Fireflies of Rubies, with Wings o.
Diamonds-Eiephants and Tad
poles i'm Gold.
New York Sun.


that I shall not soon forget-a bevy
of young girls wearing tirefies in
their hair, AS they moved about in
the dimly-lighted corridor, playing
some girlhood game, I know not
what, their living jewels flashed and
cleaned as never diamond did.
"Ob," said a jeweler in one Of the
fashionable avenues up town, when
his attention was called to the above
clipping from the San Francisco
Chronicle, mature is not going to
Guido us in providing ornament.
Look at this
He pulled open safe door, took
ont rosewood box lined with purple
velvet, and said: There are fire
flies that don't die. The imitation is
is good, is it not? They are formed
of deep red rubies, with wings of
dirmonds The ear jewels are fas-
tened close on to the pink lobe Of
the ear and make it look smaller ard
whittier. This larger one is worn at
the neck suspended from chain not
thicker than fine wire, and made
almost invisible, although it holds
the ornament safe in its position.
Cuban women make their costum, s
Respondent with irefles inclosed III
gauze bags and sewed about their
hounces. 1t is a familiar sight III
the trophies. Ii we we only knew
what food to give frebies, we could
easily make silver gauze globular
cage to hold them, and attach it to
hairpin or to a chain. We get q
beetle that we bind with a gold
chain, and keep it alive for months /;
and the Brazilian beetle is used for
mounting,
"What other ornaments are made
III the shape Of ANIMALS :"
well, men like a pig of gold, or
an elephant or camel. Some young
men about town, through a desire,
perhaps, to have a handy mirror to
hold up to nature, are fond of gold
donkey. Literary men and lawyers
ike the owl for scarfpin or watch
charm"
"What is the popular animal now
with the ladies TOR an ornament.
IAN Egyptian cat. I don't see
any difference between it and the
cats of South Fifth avenue, but it
wouldn't be popular if it was called
anything but an Egyptian cat. At
any rate it is not pretty cat, for it
has blue-green eyes, suggestive Of
suspicion, as they CLEAN out OF
the gold or silver head. Lizards
and snakes continue popular for
bracelets and necklaces. We have
just finished a circlet at the cost of
500 for the tiny waist of
Mss. 1t is a snake Of pliable gold
enameled in green and having
emerald eyes. 1t was present to
her from her fancee, and at his wish,
not ours, we put two curled needles
in the snakes mouth to represent
two fangs. In olden times men were
assassinated by judases, who wore "a
ring with a poisoned claw in it, and
when the wearer shook hands with
his enemy, he could, by a dexterous
movement, scratch his palm with the
poisoned claw and produce speedy
death. | don't mean to intimate that
my customer intends to dip the fan9s
of that golden snake In poison, but
there seemed sinister design in put
ting those needles into the snake 5
mouth, for if an arm should stray
around that waist it would be apt to
be drawn quickly aside"
DO brokers want bulls and
bears?"
Yes, every time. We have sold
many Assyrian bulls made of gold.
Ladies buy them f lace pins. A
guest at the Vanderbilt reception
told me he saw a jeweled lizard en-
circliDg a coil of hair on the head OF
leader of fashion. You cannot
guess the most fashionable animal in
jewelry now"
"A pea fowl?"
''No. 1t is a tadpole. Well, its
ugly enough, to be sure, in nature
but beautiful in gold or silver, with
jewels. Crawish admit of mucL
careful work on the goldsmith's part
A lady customer was examining 8
tadpole recently, and the casual re-
mark WAS made that according to the
evolutionists it was the image of the
ancestor of man.
eyes, she said, lifting her eye
brows. I sometimes think with the
learned gentleman that men descend
ed from one, but women never ="
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