Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-07
SHAMS IN JEWELRY.

SLAMS IN JEWELRY.
Hosc Bogus Gems are Palnsed Off on
| Wealthy People
The recent experience of London lady
| of rank, who wished to sell some jewels,
goes to prove that shams are not newer
than other things under the sun. Regard
ing what were supposed to be splendid
rubies, the jeweler said: ''They are cor
tainly very snowy, madam, but unfortu-
nately ,only very clever limitations in glass;
The lady, much chagrined, then called at
tention to the heavy setting, to which the
ieweler replied, after the usual tests, 1.-The
setting is only gilt!" Another article pro-
duced for appraisement was a superb
bracelet, the gift of continental sovereign
to the wife of a distinguished diplomatist.
The skillful manufacture and specific
gravity of this splendid object has been
extolled for generations in the family OF
tho possessor, and SO highly was it priced
that it was invariably sent to the bankers
when the family went out of town. The
jeweler scrutinized it carefully and pro-
nounced it to be extremely heavy; 'but, /"
said he, ''if you will allow me, madam, to
raise this very thin plate shall be able to
show you that this bracelet is filed up
with-leadv' Yet it is quite possible that
the original purchasers of these articles
believed them to be genuine and paid for
| them as such.
| A few years ago an English gentleman
| took bracelet to a leading provincial
English jeweler to have the clasp mended.
The ieweler looked at the clasp carefully,
and then said: "You are aware that this
is not genuine?' "Not genuinev' exclaimed
the gentleman. "You must be mistaken.
This was given to my wife on her marriage
| by my uncle, the last man in the world to
give sham jewelry." But the jeweler, an
| eminent man in his line, persisting, the
donor was informed. He wrote back that
| it had cost him $500, and ordered that it
be at once sent to him; and, taking it to
Messrs. -, a firm of the first eminence,
Indignantly stated his case. It was sham.
They offered check at once, or new
bracelet, and seemed terribly chagrined.
The explanation was that, do what they
would, they we're at times the victims of
their workmen, who substituted admirably
made bogus gems for real ones. Proba-
bly, scores of persons have jewellery
|
THE DISCOVERY OF THE MAMMOTH.
4 Surprised Fisherman the Banks of the
Lena Rirer.
C. F. Holder, in the Christmas st. Nicholas. !
The banks of the great northern ST.
berian river, the Lena, are quite peculiar.
ho ciI II,
low and marshy, while those on the eastern
are often sixty to one hundred feet in
height. In the extreme north, this high
elevation is cut into numerous pyramidal-
shaped mounds, which are formed of lay
ers of earth and ice-sometimes a clear
stratum of the latter many feet in thick
ness.
It was before such mound that fish
erman stopped, dun with establishment,
one spring morning, many years ago.
About thirty feet above him, halfway up
the face of the mound, appeared the sec
ton of great ice-layer, from which the
water was flowing in numberless streams;
while protrubing from it, and partly hang
ing over, was an animal of such huge pro-
portions that the simple fisherman could
hardly believe his eyes. Two gigantic
horns or tusks were visible, and great
wooley body was family outlined in the
blue. icy mass. In the fall he related ths
story to his comrades up the river, and
in the ensuing spring, with a party
of his fellow fisherman, he again
worked wonders. The great mass
had thawed out sufficiently to show
its nature. and on closer inspection proved
to be we'll preserved specimen of ore Of
those gigantic extinct hairy elephants that
roamed over the northern parts of Eu-
rope ami America in the earlier ages of Il Q
world. The body was stlll too firmly at
tached and frozen to permit OF removal.
For four successive years the fishermen
visited it, until finally, il March, 1904,
five years after its original discovery, it
broke away from its icy bed and came
laundering down upon the sands
below. The discoveries first detached the
tusks, that were nine feet six inches in
length, and together weighed three hun
dred and sixty pounds. The hide, covered
with wool and hair, was more than twenty
men could lift. Part of this, with the
tusks, were taken to Jakutsk and
sold for fifty rubles, while the rest of the
animal was left where it fell, and cut up at
various times by the Jakoutes, who fed
their dogs with its flesh. A strange feast
this, ruly-meat that had been frozen solid
in the ice house of nature perhaps $4,000
years, more or less; but so we'll was it pre-
served that, when the brain was afterward
compared with that of a recently killed
animal, no difference in the tissues could
be detected.
Two years after the animal had fallen
from the cliff, the news reached St. Peters
burg, and the museum of natural history
sent scientist to secure the specimen and
purchase it for the emperor. He found
the massive skeleton entire, with the e1-
ception of one fore leg. The tusks were
repurchased in Jakutsk, and the great
frame was taken to St. Petersburg and
there mounted.
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