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DIAMOND FIELDS.
A Natal Millionaire Tells About
the Precious Stones.
Thsir First Discovery, and How
They are Obtained.
John Agnew, a wealthy resident of
Natal, who rec. ntly arrived in t lis coun¬
try, gave a reporter for the New York
Times an interesting account of life and
business in the diamond fields. * Tne
centre of business in tho diamond fields,”
he said, “is Kimberly, a city of over
60,000 inhabitants. It has excellent
police and sanitary regulations, and is
.ituauS 0 » table land in the ml(Ut of a
sterile sandy plain, about 5,000 feet
above the level of the sea. The climate
is exceedingly cold in winter, and it is
not unusual to find Kaffirs who have
been drinking heavily at night frozen
to death in the streets in the morning.
The city is surrounded by the four prin¬
cipal diamond mines—the Kimberly, the
Old De Beers, the Dutoil Hpan, and tile
Bulfantine.
“Everbcdy in and about Kimberly is
Jv the dtaoad bu,in» There b no
agriculture. Provisions aro brought
from Natal or Cape 1 Town or by the
Boers in . wagons three or four , hundred
miles overland. Go ng there from
Natal you travel about 300 miles by rail
and , 300 miles by , wagon. Nobody „ , , is .
allowed to sell diamonds in Kimbery
without a license, and nobody is allowed
to buy them without a permit. If a
stranger is found with a rough diamond
in his possession without a permit he is
arrested, taken before a magistrate and
is liable to be sent to jail for three
years. I came very near being cauglit
lhat way myself on my first visit, I i
#
had bought a nine -carat diamond from I
a broker whom I knew very well, wheu J
he asked me if I had a permit, I told 1
him no and he replied: “Here is
your money; give me back the diamond.
IVe will both get into trouble.’ Then
I get a pet mik The diamonds are
taken now from a stratum of blua clay
800 feet below the surface. This clay,
which is always as hard as a rock, is
brought up in blocks and broken upon
vast uncovered platforms. Some of the
larger diamonds are found in the break¬
ing up. The work is done by natives,
who are divided into gangs of six, with
a white overseer for each gang, Both
the overseers and the men get a per
centage on the diamonds they find, as
well as fixed wages. When the natives
quit work or come up from the mines
they are stripped and searched,and even
their mouths are examined. After the
clay has been broken upon the platform
it is sprinkled with water tiad allowed
to dry in the sun. Then it crumbles
and is taken to the washers.
“ You remember, of course, how the
diamond fields were discovered. It was
in 1869, I think, or thereabouts, that a
Hottentot child playing in the sand
found a bright stone. Its father carried
the stone to a Dutch trader near the
coast, who gave him an old wagon,
some oxen and goats for it. The Dutch¬
man carried it io Cape Town and sold
it for £5000. That stone was the fa¬
mous Star of Africa, afterward pur¬
chased by the Prince of W ales tor, I
think, £30,000. It was found on the
plains about thirty miles from Kimberly.
J. B. Robertson, now one of the richest
men in South Africa, was then a ped
dler. He went into the interior shortly
after the discovery of that stone
and returned with handfuls of dia
monds. Then followed the rush to the
diamond fields.”
Pay of Chinese Servants.
A rich man’s servant in China gets no
&ilary, yet many arc the applicants;
while big salaries are paid to servants of
the common people, but few make ap
plications. The perquisites of the for
mer often more than triple the salaries
of the latter, which is the sole reason of
these differences. To encourage honesty
and sincerity confidential clerks and
salesmen in all branches of industry re
ceive an auaual net percentage of the
firm’s business, besides their regular
salary.
How Art Helps Nature.
Miss Violet Wilde (wandering in the
woods)—How glorious it i3 to gaze on
this wild scenery, and behold nature in
all her primitive majesty !
Mr. Arden Faxon—H’m, ye-es! Es¬
pecially when there's a erood comforta¬
ble hotel ou’.y a couple of miles away.
The man who is right is seldom left.
j The United States cruiser Yanfcic is
j out looking up derelicts. She was or-
1 dered to provide herself with charts of
i orders directed though that derelicts
j | found should wit;.in not the be marine touched. league The of the
eoas; cus-
1 tomary way to destroy these obstruc¬
tions is by placing torpedoes under
them and blowing them in pieces. Last
winter, when the cruisers Boston and
! Atlanta were in We;-t India wateis,
they derelict experimented, they destroying by every
projectiles run them across firing six-inch heavy
into from the
and eight-inen guns. It may have been
j a little more expensive way of destroy¬
ing the wrecks than if toipedoes had
been used, but it afforded, however, a
good opportunity for target practice and
a chance to note he destructive effects
of the heavy shells.
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They operation are in now in regularly States, organized
twenty-two Congress and in
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ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LIFE.
Newsy Stories Novel Fac’s and Queer
Happenings Here anil There.
HE testimonv
te of travelers in
various rarts of
| I the world shows
that most sav
a-es think that
m 'Si v books speak to
tlio readers,
Home Esoui
maux seeing a
1 nriest tho read Bible, from
thought that be
hoard the book
and sna repeated repeated the iiie words worus to u them. Ult “ A
I’ uegian after hearing a reader, took the
hook and nut it to Ins eir in order to
hearths sound of the voice that spoke
to the reader The savages of West
the‘Waking ^ks 6 Kdlet^They pape^^as^hey^called a L,ld y not
u,
derstaud how a person receiving a letter
announcing the sending of a number of
sheen was able to detect by it that one
was missing. Some Cochin China
Baunois were in like manner astonished
at finding that demand lor payment for
carrying a letter, waB defeated by the
letter itself, the writer having announced
the prepayment of the foe. A Califor
nia Indian having by a letter been de
tected in the theft of one of a number
of loaves of bread that ho was carrying
to a missionary, the next time that he
had a like errand, hid the note under a
stone that it should not sec him eat the
bread and thus lie able to tell of tlio
theft.
Ano.heh Another romance romance in in real .eai life mo has nasjusi just
been made pu lie. 1 we l „ - n i ye
ago a young g.r who had lived the first
"sin* 'community mSTedS Le?
cester. cester Me Ale. 'vti w. w is sb Via . e y y able to read -
and write and went to work mt,e Bates
mill, blio became a handsome young
woman and married a resident of Au¬
burn, Me. They lived together for five
years and had one child. Then they
quarreled, and the wife came to Boston
und supported herself in a boar iing
house. bix months later tho husband
ionnd her and she ro urn-d to her Maine
home. They quarreled again and she
fiually obtained a divorce. She soon
went to New York City and secured cm
ployment with a mil inery firm. Hbe
was handsome, and had acquired a cer
tain refinement by contact with the
world. Finally she ma le the ac j airit
twee of a wealthy her. old He gent eman, who
Jell in love with pr posed mar- lady
liage on the condition that the
should establish J’e v didity of her di
vorce. She went * j Maine and secured
the necessary p: : of her legal release
from her first husOand. Hbe said her
husband-to-be had furnish ’d every
means for making herself a lady of re
tinement. He had provided several her instruc- other
tors in music and in
branches of elncation. She told her
first husband when she left him that she
would be even with him some time. She
will bo married soon, and with her hus
baud will at once sail for Europe. The
gentleman she is about to marry is a
prominent carriage and sleigh rich manufac
turer, and is said to be very
Nineteen years ago a woman residing pushed
at Kingstown, N. Y.,accidentally She had been
a needle into her breast.
sewing on tine muslin, and through site pushed
the point of the needle the
lapel of her basque while she inquired
into the cause of a quarrel between two
children who were playing near by. child In
a paroxysm of fear the younger
threw herself into the arms of the lady,
and as she did so tho needle was pushed
to far out of sight that only the eye was it
visible. A quick movement to rescue
resuted in an entire disappearance of
the fine bit of steel. No inconvenience
! was experienced, and tho incident was
entirely forgotten. A few evenings ago
the woman who hail carried the needle
about her for so many years was awak
ened out of u sound sleep by a peculiar
pricking j i sensation BAnaatinn in in the the throat throat. I His- is
ing np in bed she began to cough. but The
pricking became more severe, the
as far as possible, slufcaught hold of an
object and drew it out, It w s the needle
that had been ;ourneymg about under
j the surface for nineteen years.
A very smart man named Peters died
recently at St. Petersburg, Russia. Ho
held a lease from the authorities of St.
Peers burg of the Island of Petroffski,
in the Neva river. This island is situ
ated near the Russian capital, and Mr.
Peters got u twenty-one years’ lease at a
nominal rental on condition that lie
would raise the island four feet by fill
iug in with earth and other materials.
It seems, however, that there was no
spec ification in the lease as to when the
filling in could be commenced, and old
j man Peters, who was then 60 years of
age and had calculated on dying before
the expiration t of fini the lease, but never made dif
, t : rented
ferent portions iSwiRrSie of the ’island T& getting
. mX nZorons StoTS liusskn
fore* the old gentlmnan to start filling
- , , t. . snanned his poiuiouUn fi f'erB at them IT
the
tract any clause by which shrewd they could
make him do it. This old man
lived m ar y to the expiration of the
leas« a pd t ien died, having amassed,
according to reports, a largo amount of
property.
Mr. and Mrs.Ross,of Morrellville,Pa.,
are the parents of a son with a remarka
ble head. Tlio child was born two years
ago, at i‘s birth it was apparently sound
and healthy. Home tune after the child
was born its Had began to grow out of
all proportion to the rest of it anatomy,
Doctors wer* consulted, and everything
that medical science sn- nested was ap
plied to stay the unnatn ui development,
All effoits p oyed fut.it , however, and
the growth of its head continues. It is
now thirty-six inches in circumference,
or almost as large as a half-bushel mess
ure. The body is about the right pro
portion little for a two-y' stand ar old child. The
one cannot owing to the
weigh, of its head, neither can it speak,
but it seems to understand v at is said
to it, and to have all its mental faculties
unimpaired. The cai^ie of the unnatnr- j
al growth of the child’s head is called by j
tlio doctors “hydrocephalus,’"or in plain
English it is tlio accumulation of fluid
in and about tlio brain. Medical science
has no cure for the malady, and death ie
liablo to occur to tho sufferer at any
^ime.
In making Lakoslohopekuliga,Cypress, the Disston drainage canals,
connecting large ridges
« ntl Kissimmee, in I lorid'i,
of dirt were thrown up on either stdo of
the excavations. During the present
overflowed condition of this see ion .of
the country these ridges are tho only
laud to bo seen for miles around in sonic
localities. V lid animals of various kinds
1>» V » been gradually dri ven along by t he
advancing waters, until now they aro
prisoners on these ridges. A number
of men j list returned from tlio JkeoeJio
bee country with a dozen catamount or
Honda tiger skins and various other
evidences of a successful chase, report
that on one of those ridges a craekor rabbtl
nrK j his son slaughtered of over 1 JO besides f:«
an<1 half a score possums,
other game, =animals within an hour. There aro
many otner points wnere suen annn.us
Yemeni “ to'ldlfthom 'S i3i ^"tlmreis^e^iit bSiy^Bnl
uue™:pimbal^ckar^eiy the professionals-tho hunters for rovo
a->
e0 » lblG n “° e w,tlun a U w
Silas i>r.B«v, a young man who works
on a farm near Newton, A. had a
desperate conflict with rats recently.
tbi the farm is a deep brick vault for the
storage of brewers gram. Ibis wits
Peeked in so tight ast summer that it
“occssary to cut it out with a spade,
About one-half had been taken out r.
such a way as to leave a dark hole m the
vault, Berry descends 1 into the lio.e
j’Y means of a ladder, and soon he fos > a
large rat climbing up ms trousers leg.
kicked, the rat squealed and one of
the assistants on the outside opened ft
Jrap door, Jetting in a flood of light,
Then, pint on a level with his head,
Berry saw scores < f rodents looking at
him. TJioy made for him from all
directions, and a desperate fight ensued,
There were about 100 of the rats, and
h-1 no weapons but his hands
heavy boots. Jt was M minutes bo
tore takL any heln arrived, ’pit and then fainting Perry
was out of tho in a
condition, and covered with blood from
roaI) y cut » scratches. Ho killfed'GO
of the pests in his desperate tight.
l«j repairing the streets of San An fo¬
n j 0j laborers have boc-n put to work ox
eavating in front of tho Alamo, and al
though they have not gonh a foot in
depth, they are already turning up me
menfoes of the famous battle. These
consist principally Mexicans of cannon hulls fired
by the artil The from their smooth
bored ery. balls are about
three inches in diameter and made of
It pur is * copper without alloy of any kind,
supposed that when tho workmen
go deeper they will come upon the bones
of the defenders. It is stated in hist* ry
that the remains of Crockett anil his
companions were buried by Hanta Anna
at some distance from tho fort, but this
has been disputed by many v ho say
that the bodies were buried where the/
fell, and this vexed question is expected
to basettled by tho work now .a progress,
Home of the unearthed cannon balls
have been preserved for insertion in the
foundation stone of the Alamo mon*
ment.