The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-12
The Glamour of Paste.

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rest of the country was, and is, more or
less interested in was the capture of a
French couple-a young man and pretty
girl-with several sachels full of dia-
monds, watches and other jewelry They
had diamonds set and diamonds unset,
most of them of good size, many of them
quite large and all stones of alleged OK
cellent quality. Jewellers looked at the
treasures neatly rolled in tissue paper
and packed in chamOis skin rolls and al
most Wept because they belonged to some
body else. Some of the experts who
examined the gems fixed the value of
them at s. 1000 and others at 500, 600
All agreed that the collection was d
magnificent one
All of these nice and costly things were
in the possession of people who had moved
suspiciously and failed to give salts
factory accounts of themselves; therefore
the conclusion was reached that the Jew
els must have been stolen 1t was then
remembered that the Duke of This or the
Prince of That in Europe had been robbed,
and the conviction that these were the
dukes or princes diamonds was clear in
the minds of the police, who had both the
Jewels and the young French couple in
custody. There was lots of mystery
thrown about the arrested persons and
the investigation of the case which made
it fascinating.
But the day of disenchantment has
come. 1t has been discovered that the
largest and most beautiful of the diamonds
a1,a soma tf,o1 g t,,,,c -, A.,
lot. But they were put there merely as
big straw cherries are put on the top of the
basket The value of The find has been
knocked down from 2l00,0G0 to S25, 600.
and the new theory of the police is that
the good and spurious diamonds were
smpggled in by sharpers who intended to
"shove" the bad ones on unsophisticated
worlds fair visitors. The goods, it is be-
lieved, We're smuggled through the custom
house in casks OF wine.
Mr.. Cleveland's tirmness will enable
him to get down to the work for which he
was elected for at least a month earlier
I than his predecessor did at the beginning
of his term. 1t was well into June before
/ President Harrison had the least respite
] AitliA viz llltll-i ~ iblNlt u IG)uDllCdU OF
/ hce-seekers. At the beginning of that
month, according to Gen. H " Boynton,
the veteran Washington correspondent,
himself republican "the crush upon the
/ President for the main Offices, and upon
his cabinet ministers for the minor ones"
had been 'unending and unyielding"
| Every day" he added further, ''viudi-
| Gates the correctness of the assertion that
! the rush for Office is without parallel"
! President Harrison had not the back
bone" TO shake off these consumers of
| public time; nor did he dare do it, for
fear of the political bosses, even if he had
| possessed the courage President Cleve-
land had the courage to call a halt And
therein one Of the great differences be-
tween the administrations is illustrated
Belva A. Lockwood has at last been ad-
mitted TO the bar of the state of New
1 York Her first appearance as lawyer
will be in the old, musty, dry and tiresome
/ Myra Clark Gaines will case. How
| singularly appropriated
The information that since the begin
ming OF the present administration 81, 900
/ "a month has been saved In the running
/ expenses OF the census bureau will make
/ takpHXeps regret that tho administered ion