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The roador of Mr. Bryant's poems will readily remember, says the Crnturj, the many verso addressed to his wife, such as "Oh Fairest of the Hnrnl Maids,'1 writton nbont the time of their marriage: "The Future liifo," speculating as to the union of their spirits in the world to come ; the "Sick liod,"dsoribin(j an illness ; " The Life That Is," rejoicing in recovery j " Tho Twenty seventh of Maroh," the birthday of Mn. Bryant j "Ontober, IHfMj," descriptive of lier death and burial and " May Evening," a centle reference to her loss. But in addition to these, as we learn from Mr. Godwin's forthcoming biography of tho poet, n frag ment was found among his papers, which reoalls her memory in a very tender way, seven yours after her death. The lines were mifliiiHhcd and uncorrected s but ws cannot refrain from giving them as they were written duted "IloHlyn, 187a." The morn hath not the glory that jt were, Nor doth the day so beautifully die, Since I can call thee to my side no more, To gaze upon the Bky. For thy dear hand with caoli return of spring, I sought in sunny nooks the flowers the gave; I seek them still, and sorrowfully bring The choicest to thy grave. Here, where I sit alone, is sometimes heard From the great world, a whisper of my name, Joined, haply, to some kind, commending word, By those whose praise is fame. And then, as if I thought thou still wert nigh, I turn ms, half forgetting thou art dead, To read tho gentlo gladness in thine eye That once 1 might have read. I turn, but see thoe not j before my eyes The ininge of a hillsido mound appears Where all of thoe that passed not to the skies Was !a;d with bitter toara. And I, whose thoughts go back to happier days That fled with thoe, would gladly now resign AU that the world can give of fame and praiee For one sweet look of thine. Thus, ever, when I read of generous deeds, Bach words as thou didst once delight to hear, My heart is wrung with anguish as it bleeds To think thou art not near. And now that I can talk no more with theo Of ancient friends and days too fair to lust, A bitterness blonds with the memory Of all that happy post. ' Oh, when I MAKING UP HER MIND. Fretty Hester Earlscourt was in such a quandary. Only the day be fore, weary with care and her mo notonous labor, she had sighed, " Oh, dear! I wish something would hap pen!" And now something had hap pened, with a vengeance. For four terms she had taught the district school at Oldvillo. The pay was not large, but enough to support her and her sister Cordelia little Cuddy. It was Hester's first school, and she had been so glad to get it after her father died, and it was dis eovcred that there was really no prop erty for the children. Hester was young only eighteen even now when she began to feel so weary and careworn as a "school ma'am." Was her life to go on forever so long days of " readin', spellin' an' geogafry," twilight rides in the horse cars baek in town, frugal suppers with Cuddy, and nights that did not seem long enough to rest in just that, and nothing more? It did seem a little hard, she had bom such a dreamt r so hopeful of a bright future. " But, oh, Cuddy, I'm growing world wise!" she sa'nTi one night, to her mys tified little sister. But that summer the davs had been so long and the nihts so short, that Hester cried out : "Oh, dear, I cannot bear it! Any thing for a change!" "I believe you are sick, Hessie," said womanly little Cuddy, who, though ten years old, wasn't much larger than a fairy and was obliged to stand on a footstool, bosido Ilessie's oil easy chair, to smooth back tho nut-brown hair from the blue-veined temples. " Xo, Cuddy; only tirod so tired 1" " But you are !" persisted the child. " Your temples beat, and your head is hot and ey,s heavy. I'll bathe your forehead with ammonia. Oh, it's all gone out of the bottle ! I'll run out to the druggist's and get some. May 1 ?'' " Yes, dear !" Yet llessie hardly realized what the child said or where she had gone. She sat alone in the plain, but comfortable, little sitting-room, the light fading around her, when there was a knock at the door. " Come !" she called, without rising, thinking it was the dean towels. The door which stood ajar was ; suitors, an embarrassment of riches, pushed open, and a gentleman en- They were very different, l'aul tered. He had a pleasant, florid coun- j Deslonde was brilliant, captivating, so teijance, and very blue eyes, and might apt with arts and graces of the high have been about thirty-five years ol 1. ! est social life, she could not help won- Kl bet your parson, Miss J-.arls- it, but your landlady told me to t right up. 'xcuseme !" said llessie, instantly liter leet anil recognizing Doctor one of the school committee. iy be s a'.eu. 1 am very glad to see j ? have decided The couiixiuee about the 'change of spelling-books, I presume?" "X-o,n-o!" said Doctor Tel, with an unusual air of limitation. "My cull is not one of business, Miss i aria-court." Hessie may be pardonel for fa'nlly showing her surprise. Doctor Arthur j Fell had always seemed to her the busiest and most practical of men. How, then, should she suspect his errand. "No?" she said, in a half-interrogatory tone, and paused. " 1 " and Doctor Fell paused. Ilessio grew a little pale. " Your errand is not agreeable, I am afraid, Doctor Fell. Do I not give satisfaction " " In the school to tho committee?" ho answered. " Most assured'.v vou do!" "Thank you!" siid llessie, greatly relieved. " I am very awkward ! I am afraid I shall startle you," said Doctor Fell, very gently, after a moment; " but the truth is, 1 have come to day to ask you to be my wife." !!( in's brown ces opened, indeed fitartled. " Yoj are not offended?" " N o !" said Ho.sie. " The way of it is this I" said Doctor I'd!. Ten ycurs ago I had a sweet wife, whom I loved very dearly. She died, and left me witlf one child. My child fell to my mother's care, who has made the only homo for me I have ha I since. But she is very aged, and has often urged me to marry again. How ever, this I found impossible. It has only been since I have known you, Miss Earlscourt, that marriagi again has seemed possible. Fardon me ! I know you have little expected this. But you are not oltended, though I am no youthful hero. Try to believe me I think I could make you happy !" He bent forward and took one of Ilessie's small hands gently between his. He looked very good and manly. " I I must have time to think, Doc tor Fell," faltered llessie. "Certainly. I have male my pro posal. You shall decide at your leis ure. But while you are thinking about it I would like to see you once in a while, llessie. Will you let me take you to ride call upon you of an evening?" "I have no objection," answered llessie. quietly, but she felt quite dizzy. In a few moments Doctor Fell had gone away. Before she lad in the least righted herself there was another knock at the half-open door, and Mr. Deslondj walked in. Mr. Faul Deslonde was tho most elegant man of Ilessie's acquaintance. He was very ha.idsome; his manner was faultless. She had always stoo l a little in awe of him. Judge, then, of her surprise, when, having seated himself in her little sitting-room, and chatted easily for half an hour, he very gracefully made a proposal of marriage. " My father wants me to marry, and being usually arbitrary, I am exceed ingly grateful to him that he does not insist upon making a choice for me, but leaves me free to please mvself. And this is no sudden fancy. I have known i vou long, and admiration has ripened into personal esteem. Will you take my proposal into consideration?" llessie caught her breath. She looked very pretty with the maidenly reserve mantling her features, the long, dark lashes shading the pure cheek; but these words brought such a bewildering vista of the elegant Deslonde mansion, where a home was I offered her, that she was all in a whirl. I I will take vour offer into con sideration.Mr. Deslonde," she syllable I, mechanically. She felt entirely incapable of saying any more. And then Cuddy came running in with tho ammonia bottle, I and Mr Deslonde s conversation generalisms, and then he ! turned to ; took his leave. Xobody will wonder, I think, that I llessie was very much excited. It was j not unpleasant excitement. She was I flattered, she was encouraged, j Doctor Arthur l'dl was very much ! respected, though he was not rich. Faul Deslonde was very wealthy. Such a proposal from either was very reassuring to a poor girl whose face was her only fortune. Xot that Hessie was a bit in love with either. How could she be when she never had before dreamed of mar rying either of these gentlemen? It was all so very sudden and unex pected ! The days and weeks went on. It was a very pleasant, change which had come to Hessie drives and visits, and flowers sent up to her modest little room. The new order of things brightened even the tedious school hours. Yet, even when a month had gone by, lies- landlady with sio had not even approa lied her de cision. She possessed, in her two dering that lie should have chosen so unassuming a littls maid as herself. In truth, it was Ilessie's peculiar air of docility and modesty which ha I at tracted Mr. Deslonde. lie liked rule. Doctor Fell was practical!, wilk to an air of reliability about hiia which spoke loudly for hint to Ilessle's loneiy heart. She had needed just such a friend so long! Yet, the frank, dark-blue eye3 which were Doctor Fell's only beauty were often eclipsed in the young girl's mind by l'aul Dcslonde's elegant form and face, .She tried to be wise! so much de- j pendeil on this decision of hers all her life's happiness. Which did she I like better? She could not for the life of her tell. Both strove to please her and were often very agreeable. She wished sometimes that she could ! see them from a different standpoint than as her lovers. She tried to look into the future, imagining either her husband, but all was so vague! But at hist came the point when llessie was able to decide. she was shopping one leisure Satur day and went into a stationer's to make some purchases. When the goods she had ordered were put up, she sat down in the back of the store to wait for her car, which would not be due for half an hour. She whs glad to rest, too, and entertained herself with a stereoscope. Suddenly she neurd Faul Deslonde's voice. For the lirst time it struck her that there was something sharp and cutting in it; or, rather, she remem bered that she had recognized that quality before without criticising it. She observed Mr. Deslonde now at tentively. . He purchased a little steel implement an ink-eraser. The sales man wrapped and handed it to him. Mr. Deslonde overlooked the proffer. " Send it up to tho house at once. I am going directly home, and shall want to use it," he said, curtly. " Certainly, certainly," answered the clerk, with an air of apology. "I thought perhaps it is so small " " I never take my purchases; the de livery is your business." "Yes yes, of course, Mr. Deslonde!" The gentleman went out, and the salesman muttered something to a 1 fellow-clerk about " pie-crust." But another customer came in. It was a broad-shouldered, florid man, with pleasant blue eyes. He seemed to know the salesman, and chatted with him as he carefully selected a nice stereoscope with several dozen viewa and a tasteful carved rack for holding them. When the purchase was complete and paid for the gentle man held out his hand for the package. " This i3 quite a largo parcel, Doctor Pell. I will send it up," said the cleric. "Xo; I will take it!" cheerfully. " Better let me send it up, sir." "Xo; the things are for my little Xellie. She has been confined to her room for a fortnight with sickness. I promised them to her, and it would take away half tho satisfaction not to give them to her myself. Fer.'iaps you'll feel so, Charley, w hen you have a little girl !" And with a laugh and cheery nod Dr. Fell went out with the bulky pared. A warm color spread over Ilessie's sweet face. The tears came into her ees; and then and there Hester Earls court made the decision which influ enced her whole after life. When Dr. Fell came into her little sitting-room that night with a bunch of English violets, she took them witli a radiant smile, held them and inhaled their f ragrance all the evening, though a vase of Mr. Deslonde's liner .green house roses stood on tho table. And when, at parting, the grave, tender, middle-aged lover took violets and both little hands gently in his and kissed them, she put a slender arm about the strong neck. "Yes, good-bye now; but sometime you will stay with me always; for 1 love you; yon are so good 1" And in all her life llessie never for a moment regretted her decision. Es ther Earle Ktniitth. Long Xatls. The Chinese have many peculiar fashions and fancies which are re markable; and one of the most curious is the industry with which they culti vate their finger-nails. They esteem it a good proof of a man's be ing a gentleman, or at least one who is not obliged to have re course to manual labor to procure his subsistence, if he have long nails. They sometimes allow them to acquire the extraordinary length of eight or nine inches. In order to preserve them from external injury, each one of the claws is inclosed in. a joint of hol low bamboo, so that the hand which is graced with these strange ornaments is rendered nearly useless. The Chinese ladies are particularly attentive to the preservation of their nails, which are sometimes an inch or an inch and a half long on all the lingers. There texture resembles a dry squill very much, and as they increase in length they curl up at the edges. Scared Itedsklns. Xot long ago an officer of the army (who, having lost his upper teeth, wore a false set) was engaged in seri ous conversation with some Indians. His plate troubling him, he took it out and wiped it with his handkerchief. The Indians watched the process with unfeigned astonishment. When the captain, putting the plate in his mouth, went on with the conversa tion, they sprang to their feet and left the ruoiii and post in all haste, and with every symptom of extreme Urror. NEW YORK SHOPLIFTERS. MALE AND FEMALE THIEVES STEAL TV THE STORES. WHO iUnny Tliounnml of PnUnrit T.ont Yearly br fliiikerrer-Harlr ItrfflnuriM In Crime wUlllluI .Method of OpCrniiMn. Tho shoplifters of Xew York are declared by the storekeepers to be like air; their presence and their Work is palpable, but, except in occasional in stances, they are invisible to sight These thieves, says the Times, do not appear to be banded together in an extensive organization, but in their in dividual operations they all pursue the same general methods and work in about the same channels. A "profes sional" will nut ma'ie more than one or two isit3 to the same counter with out uMowing considerable time to in tervene, and is very careful not to let her fa::e become familiar to anybody connected with the stores visited. The respective proprietors of nearly a dozen of the largest retail stores in "the city estimate their annual losses by shop lifting at from $:J,()()0 to $12,000. Frol'essional shoplifters were form erly in the habit of affecting the "klep tomania dodge" when detected, but since the storekeepers have become so exacting in their demands for proof's of good character in such cases, the thieves have abandoned that subter fuge, and now depend upon their skill and luck to escape detection. Tho in creasing experiences of the storekeep ers and the improved facilities for thief-catching have driven the bunglers out of this branch cf the rogues' pro fession, and it is now an even match between diarp and experienced detect ives and smart and ingenious thieves. There are plenty of evidences th it "the smart and ingenious thieves" are numerous, and they operate in all of the large retail stores with a fair average of sucee-s. Occasional ar rests are made, but it is seldom that a charge stronger than that of petty lar ceny can b? proved against the offend er, and the punishment is accordingly light. The most skillful shoplifters invari ably travel in pairs. In detective parlance one "stalls" for the other. That is, one of the thieves will under-; take to engage the attention of tho clerk while the other deftly abstracts a piece of silk, a package of gloves ( r a card of lace from tho counter. It is frequently the case that the confeder ates will not enter a store together or exchange any perceptible signs of recognition while plying their voca tion. A well-dressed, resp actable-appearing woman will step up to the lace counter, for instance, and ask to be shown some line lase embroideries. The clerk, mentally noting her well-to-do appearancv', thinks he sees a chance of making a good sale, and is consequently obliging. He finds his customer hard to suit and places box upon box of choice goods before lit r. Soon a second woman comes up and, calmly ignoring the lirst customer as lady shoppers siuuetimesdo she de mands to see a peculiar kind of goods which belongs in that particular de partment. The clerk pulls down some tiling for her. It turns out to be the wrong article and, leaving tho first customer to contemplate the exten sive assortment of embroideries before her, he endeavors to please the second customer. Immediately he finds him self the victim of two exacting and un reasonable females, and, after show ing them a large share of the goods in his department, he is mortified to see them walk away, each one in a differ ent direction, without having bought a dime's worth, and lie is subsequently mortified to lind that two or three cards of the niot costly lace have been stolen. The "mother and daughter game" is worked very effectively in many of the large retail stores where the clerks are men. The "mother" is, of course, always portly and dig nified, and the "daughter" pretty and coquettish. While the la ter ensnares tlie susi eptible clerks witli her laugh ing eyes and saucy manner, the adroit mother tucks a few things into tho in side pockets of Iter ample cloak. Occa sionally the pretty " daughter," if she happens to be a practiced thief, will, under the cover of a small purchase, carry off valuable property from under the very nose of the smitten clerk. Detectives who are employed in stores are quite familiar with the ways of pro fessional shoplifters, but even with them a fresh, pretty face plays mischief. It is well known that a regular system of education is in vogue arming simp lifters There have been numerous in stances where young girls and boys have been caught in company with well-known professional shoplifters, and some of these juveniles have con fessed that they were being taught how to steal. 'I'o become successful in the shoplifting business it is neces sary not only, to acquire dexterity in taking articles out of boxes or off from counters, but to learn to pass the stolen goods quickly and secretly to a confederate. The lirst lesson taught to beginners is how to receive stolen goods from the hands of the more ex perienced thieves. Then, step by step, the young shoplifters are advanced in the art until tliey are permitted to do the tine work of stealing laces, silks or jewelry directly under the noses of the salesmen. A girl aged fourteen was arrested for shoplifting on Sixth ave nue some time ago, and when searched it was found that she wort a double- skirted dress with ensealed pockets, and also had large pockets' if the in side of her loosely-fitting sack. "-Men sometimes act as 'stalls' fcr fe male shoplifters," caid a shrewd store detective to the reporter. "A good looking man, with a brisk way :;b ut him, can readily pave the way for the operations of a nimble-fingered wo mi n This is particularly the case at the counters which are attended by lady clerks. When a man and rt w o man step up to the counter together the man is sure to monopolize the lady clerk's attention if he is at all agree able in his manner. While lie talks his companion slips what she crm up her sleeve or under her cloak." " What proportion of the shoplifters that operate in this city are women ?" was asked of ono of the proprietors of a large retail store. "Fully nincteen-twentieths. It is seldom that a male shoplifter attempts to ' work' a retail store alone, and the instances where women are assisted by men are not frequent. Male shoplift ers operate mostly in the downtown wholesale stores. They go in couples and generally drop into a store soon after the porter has opened the doors, and while one of them engages the at tention of the porter the other makes off with a package of goods." The merchants in the dry goods district are supposed to be the heaviest downtown losers by the operations of shoplifters, but the ready-made clothing dealers and the jewelers arc frequently victim ized. A wholesale jeweler in Mai len lane said that lie lost at least $1,000 worth of goods every ytar by petty lar cenies. " There s-emns to be a gang of shoplifters now working the jewelry stores," lie said, " who are careful to avoid making an outcry. They take but littl" at a time, weli knowing that a busy wholesaler' cannot spare the time to trae a theft of $75, $100 or $lo0 worth of goods. Sometimes sev eral days will pass before wo miss tho stolen property. Then, of course, it is loo late to do anything. And, another tiling, merchants, as a rule, are very sensitive on the subject of losses. Many of them would much rather let a thief get away with a few hundreds of dollars' worth of goods than say any thing about the matter." Amusements In Persia. On the first day of tho year tho gov ernors of the provinces make their presents to the king of Fersia, at Tehe ran, which are accompanied by various sorts of games and pastimes. M. Tan coigne, who was at Teheran in 1S580, thus describes them: First came men running on stilts of more than twenty feet high; others performing feats of strength and balancing, turning on the slack rope, or carrying on their heads a pile of earthen puts, surmounted with a vase of flowers; then dancing and combats of rains, which weie excited against each other. These exercises were followed by ropp-danciug, performed by two young children. 1'he rope w as of hair and c m.-e jiiently less flexible than a hempen one; being strained on two trestles of mora than forty feet in height, it as cended almost imperceptibly as high as the top of the king's kio.sk. After hav ing made several gambols with the as sistance of poles, on the part of the rope which was horizontal, one of the two dancers, ten years old at most, mounted as high as the terrace which crowns the pavilion and then descended ba' kward from a height of more than eighty feet. We remarked witli pleas ure that several men placed beneatti the cord, followed all the movements of the child, ready to receive him in a large blanket, if his foot had happened to have slipped. Wo did not suppose the l'ersians were capable of such an attention, especially in the king's pres ence. These dancers are called in Per sian djanbaz, meaning one who plays or risks his suui, This expression, contemptuous in itself, intimates that games of this kind are discouraged by religion; and is nearly synonym.nn with tl:a' of excommunication, with whieh our actors were once compli mented. Xaked men, armed with maces, and wrestlers appeared afterward before the king. The first resembled savages; they struck their dubs together w ith out injuring each other. It was not so with the second, their combats hav ing something hideous and revolting. The conqueror, that is to say, he who succeeded in throwing his adversary on his back, went to the foot of the kiosk to receive a piece i f money which tho king threw down to liiin. Fire works of a splendid description suc ceeded; and the next d iy w as appro priated to horse-racing. A Grand I'iece of Engineering. A survey is about being made through the heaviest portion of the Black canon of tlie Gunnison. For a long distanco tlie walls of syenite rise to the stupendous height of Il.OOO feet, and for 1,800 feet the walls of the canon are arched not many feet from tho bed of the river. If tlie survey is successful and tlie Denver and liio Grande is built through thecanon.it will undoubtedly be tlie grandest pieco of engineering on tlie American conti nent. Tho river is very swift, and it is proposed to build a boat at the western end ami provision it for a length of time, ullowing it to float with the stream, but controlled by ropes. If the boat gooithe chances are that the baby road goes, too.--Uiic-f 'i'ril'.Ui . MITTENS. Pure frost-wind on the winUr'i ere, Von piny among my lady's treieee, And pink n-t apple-blows jou lenve Tho cheek that take your light catwwuj Bnt from her littia lmnds begone 1 By you they'll not bekifed nor bitten, For over each in onugly drawn A tiny pale-blne mitten. The Blender perfume-haunted glova Erstwhile that hid her lily fingers' In not the shield that most they love, AVhereon a pressure longest linger. More Bhy, confiding, tender, tnie, And softer thnn two curled-np kittens, Are those dainty twins of bine, My lady's little mittens. Once at the piny, when lights were low, And down had dropped tho great green oar. tain, I took her hand; wfl turned to go; Her fingers chisped o'er mine, I'm cort That sudden thrill I feel nffi'in. That never could bo told or 'roitten, When'erl see or touch, as then, Her downy little mitten. Some memories those tuiltens hold, And secrete, might one coax confession. Ah, dearer than a g.ige of gold I'd count of one to gain possesion. Yet ask her I shall never dare, Nor tell her how my heart is smitten, For fear, in answer to my prayer, She might give me the mitten. Henry Tyrrel, in The Continent. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A quiet story The garret. The best thing out Out of debt. To a ship the rudder is a stern ne cessity. , Size isn't everything. A watch tick ing can be heard further than a bed ticking. Xobody wishes tlie baby stolen, still it is a relief when tlie nurse cribs it at night. Bjsfon Bulletin. When a pickpocket gets out of prac tice it takes a long w liiio for him to get his 1 and in. ktuitesman. The juan who was " largely instru mental" was probably of a mechanical turn of mini. Boston Transcript. The American Feaco society has about $G0,i.Mi0 (,n haud enough to have a gloiiuis lig'.it about. Lowell Courier. When the hen with chickens at tacked the small boy in his mother's yard, t'.i.f hen informed him she had been laying for him for some time. It takes but thirteen minutes to lead an elephant on a train, while it takes twenty for any sort of a woman to kiss her friends good-bye and lose the check for tier trunk. liomi Sin' intl. They tell of a Kansas woman who slept so soundly with a hot llatiron at hr feet that she never felt the blister until some one woke her up. A wo man w ith such a lack of feeling would wear the s line bonnet ten years. Dt ti'jit Fnt 1'iiss. A s;ru(e and conceited young Mr. l'V'O in love with another cLuy'i sr. W ith his sweet little cantf, At the end of the lane, Hu uii't and fain would have kr. lint he tr h1 on her train, At the end of the luue, And a slap ou his face made a blr. Old Mr. Jones was always paying his attentions to the widow Tompkins, and she detested him from Dan to ISeersheba. lie was forever tallying her and asking her silly questions. Th other evening, after a bold compli ment, he asked, "My dear Madame, how do you tell a fool when you see one?" " Well, Mr. Jones, I usually tell one to leave. Will you bo kind enougli to go?" He hasn't stopped going yet. TLe hruinvH'i: IJi'otlierly Lotp. '' Yesterday, about 1 o'clock, a boy of twelve summers went up Austin ave nue at such a rate of speed that every body who saw him was fully per suaded lie was going for a doctor, par ticularly as there was a scared ex pression on the boy's face. A kind hearted man caught the flying boy by tlie arm, and asked him : "Sonny, is there anybody very sick at your house?" " Xo; but there w ill be if you don't turn hie loose." " AVho is going to be sick ?" " Well, it's my brother Hill. He will be a remains before night if I don't get there right away. We have oysters and things for dinner, and if I ain't there to get my share he will try to eat for us both, and he will founder himself, sure, l'leaso let me go, so that 1 can save my little brother's life." Hiftiwjs. The Crjwn of England. The crown of England is a beauti ful jewel sparkliug with stm's worth half a million dollars. There are twenty diamonds round tho circle, worth f 7,500 each, making $150,000 ; two large center diamonds, $10,000 each, making f 20,000; fifty-four smaller diamonds, placed at an angle of the former, each $oOO; four crosses, each composed of twenty-live diamonds, $00,000; four largo diamonds on the top of the crosses, f20,0;0; twelve diamonds contained in the fleur do lis, $60,000 ; tighteen smaller diamonds contained in the same, $10,(100; pearls, diamonds, etc., uprn the arches and crosses, $51 Ml; aUi H I small dia-' monds, $25,000; twenty- ix diaioondc" in the upper cross, $5,500; two tirde of pearls ab it tlie rim, $15,000. : . o .ek. 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