The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-05-27

was Stiil III SOOu COHQltlOn. III reels ike
leather" said an onlooker as he touched
sold Jimmy's" elastic ribs. The rector
invites suggestions from the public as
what to do with the mummy. The mystery
as to its identity arises from the fact that
during the great London fire in 1866, it
was hurriedly removed from another
church, and placed where it now lies so
as to escape the ravages of the conAagra-
ton.
The discovery of diamond, at present
valued at $150,0O0 on the Kimberley Dia-
mond Fields, South Africa, is one of the
romances of that Mecca of gems. This
stone which is named "The Tigers Eye"
is at present in the possession of the finder,
Captain Lucas, D. S. o. For seven months
Captain Lucas and his partner had been
working claim at Droogeveld, so miles
from Kimberley, with disappointing re-
suits, and had decided to abandon it.
They made arrangements to try their luck
elsewhere. The day previous to their de-
parture one of their Kafir boys rushed
up to them shouting excitedly, "Baas, a
diamond" and handed over stone of an
amber color weighing 1871 carats. Or
ders were Immediately given for the dis
mantling to cease, and other big finds fol-
lowed. The stone was placed in the hands
of Mr. Bernard Oppenheimer, the famous
diamond expert, and when cut and pol
ished was reduced to a pure Aawless am
Der diamond weighing 61H carats. The
cutting occupied three months, and cost
272 pounds. The stone is at present on
exhibition in London, England.
Most of the ladies of the royal courts
of Europe bearing royal title are supposed
to order and wear out at least two dozen
gowns every year. There is some mys-
terry attached to their final destiny. 1t is
somewhat cruelty suggested that Ferdinand
of Roumania insisted upon his Queen SELL
ing hers to Oriental buyers. 1t is certain,
however, that large number find their
way to Paris, where the royal dressers,
working for commission, dispose of them
to various agencies. The Queen of Spain
receives $4,000 a year for her discarded
robes from one world-famed agency. The
ex-German Empress had a remarkable
dresser named Deckdorf. She was also
a wonderfully clever dressmaker, and
made many gowns for her mistress, the
material for which was bought in Lon
don. She used to sell the royal gowns
to dress agency in Vienna, and the ex-
Empress received thousand year for
them. Queen Mary is perhaps the only
royal lady who does not sell any of her
gowns, which, by the way, she wears Ion
ger than most royalties. She gives them to
the London Needlework Guild, and they
are given to people who have most need
of them.
made with spiders web as substitute for
silk, and the results are so encouraging
that great and lucrative industry will
probably result.
Many persons have tried to utilise spi-
der's web; G. Guenaux, distinguished
seventeenth century zoologist, described
clothes made of it by the inhabitants of
Paraguay. In 1908 Bon. Saint Hilaire,
President of the Court of Accounts at
Montpelier, actually made few pairs of
stockings and gloves of spiders web. Mr..
Rolf, an English silk spinner, obtained
from twenty-five spiders a thread 3A
miles long, which he wound on a spool.
The common spiders of the temperate zone
are not, however, we'll adapted to such ex-
ploitation, but some of those found in the
tropics, the halabe of Madagascar, for
instance, lend themselves well to it.
The female halabe is about 2M inches
long, heavily built, feeds on other insects