StNicholas [serial] . urned up the mostmonstrous diamond theworld ever saw. It iscalled the Cullinan, afterthe chairman of the com-pany, and is bigger than amans fist. Moreover, it isof transparent purity; andalready the colossal sum of$2,000,000 has been offeredfor it by an internationalsyndicate. Meanwhile theworlds greatest chemists,well knowing the constitu-ents of the diamond, havebeen trying to make pre-cious stones in their labora-tories, and the great Frenchscientists M. Berthelot andM. Moissan have actuallyproduced diamonds and ru-bies—small enough, yet ab-solutely real—in their cru-c
StNicholas [serial] . urned up the mostmonstrous diamond theworld ever saw. It iscalled the Cullinan, afterthe chairman of the com-pany, and is bigger than amans fist. Moreover, it isof transparent purity; andalready the colossal sum of$2,000,000 has been offeredfor it by an internationalsyndicate. Meanwhile theworlds greatest chemists,well knowing the constitu-ents of the diamond, havebeen trying to make pre-cious stones in their labora-tories, and the great Frenchscientists M. Berthelot andM. Moissan have actuallyproduced diamonds and ru-bies—small enough, yet ab-solutely real—in their cru-cibles. You might think thismeans an end to mining fordiamonds, with its romanceand adventure, and the vast riches involved in so, however; for diamonds and rubies chem-ically produced are more than one thousand timesdearer than the natural gem. So we need notfear that the diamond will lose its rarity and cost-liness during our life-time. They are likely, in-deed, to last, at any rate, for hundreds of AN EXPERT WEIGHING AND SORTING THE DAYS TAKE.
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