The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-15
STORIES OF DIAMONDS.
Riches Gained and Lost by Persons Deal
ing In Precious Gems.

ing In Precious Gems.
Volumes have been written on ro.
mances connected with diamonds and
on the fortunes made and lost by per.
sons dealing in them.
The "Sancy," now in Russia, is worth
100000 Charles the Bold once owned
this gigantic brilliant and lost it while
on the battlefield.
A Swiss soldier found i! and sold it to
priest for two francs or less than half
dollar. After awhile the gem found
it's way into the collection of King
Anthony of Portugal, who sold it to De
Sancy of France in 1859, for 100, 900
iivres,
De Sancy sent the jewel to Henry
Ill, who wanted to raise money on it..
He employed trusted messenger to
carry it, and this man on being attacked
by highwaymen and fatally injured swal.
lowed the jewel
The faithful servants body was opened
and the great diamond found. 1t was
again lost, but discovered by means of
information impaired in an anonymous
note.
The "Onslow," great Prussian stone,
was originally used asan eye in the idol
Serringham in the temple of Brahma.
1t did duty in this manner for $50 years,
but in 1860 it aroused the cupidity of a
French soldier, who professed conver-
sion to Buddhism, worked his way into
the confidence of the priests and gained
access to the temple.
On the first opportunity he gouged
out the 1913 carats eye and ran off with
it to Madras. While he was making
good his escape the priests discovered
the loss, which they attributed to BraE-
mas vengeance for the admission of an
alien.
The soldier received $4,000 for the
stolen treasure from sea captain, who,
on reaching England, sold it to jew
for $780, Catharine III. gave the jew
S495,000 and an annuity Of $4,000 for it,
and the sensible Hebrew forthwith re-
newed his youth and drew the annuity
for many years.-Pall Mall Budget
A Chicago Tailors Suggestions.
II man will be honest with me when
he comes into my place to order suit
of clothes will guarantee to please him
or give him the clothes. IL man says
to me, 81 am poor but / want always to
look respectable" | can fix him. To
such man / would say: Get cutaway
coat with vest and trousers of the same
goods Let the material be dark and
plain. Then he has "A suit which will
pass the critical eye whether he is on
the Board of Trade, in dry goods store
as clerk, or the central figure at ban
quet. If he isa man of means then would
suggest that he have his dress suits, of
course, his business suits, fatigue and SO
on. If mans circumstances, however,
are 80 stinted that he can have but one
suit of clothes he should never think of
getting any goods that are pronounced in
style. The fashion in mems wear Is like
that of the world, sit passeth away"
and know of nothing more pitiful ane
at the same time ludicrous than to see
suit of clothes which was once the height
of fashion struggling 10 keep up the
mans appearance.-Chi Tribune.
The wife of a Philadelphia veterinary
accidentally mixed her own prescrip-
tion with one made out by her husband
for horse, and sent the wrong one to
druggist She was Mortified when she
found that the druggist had sent her
pills home In cigar box, and frightened
when she found each pill was bigger
than plumb.