A DIAMOND'S WORTH.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 23 June 1904, Page 6

A DIAMOND'S WORTH.

• - T-Ro7 Osa Be ReUfd On vrilfc il»olute CertalzUy in Haklsv tk» Taat. selecting a false gem from & genre, the X-ray, says an. article on V-n»y pictography,. in - L«ili e ' s A*critn)y r can be relied on with abso;ot« certainty. Diamonds, m is well kaowh.'are pare'carbon'; and carbon, which la opaque to ordinary light, « transparent to the Roentgen lJgh'v while giaes, which is transparent, t© ordinary light, is opaque to the R'aent-g-sn ray.- On an X-ray photograph of a real diamond nothing- >/51l show b«t the shadow of the gol<i setting. t*3 interesting exp*riin«.** was made ri-cc—i- in watching witfc/theaidof an v-r' achine and a fluoroscope, motarried on. inside of an opaque A go*ee waß fed with food ■nixed with sulvnitrate of bisomth e*U„, which abaerbs the X-ray. The pafs--.*ge of the food down the lon# n«clc :f the gooFe cgtiH be traced y the moving shadow cast on the* screen. H* Wearer Talks. Gen. Kitchener recently 'declined to " intervirwed by a soldier who has sine* his return from South Afriea tnn»?fi jmirhalist. "Always pleased to see and An anything for anyone who has ?eped under me, but yon know I n<»ver —" Then he smiled and shook h's bead. An Exacttac Taste. A worr.cn ha* written 4,070 words on free siiie of ii postal cord. No word is of Jess than three letters, and a microscope was usedtc complete the fast. Rural Mall by no**. A b#nt instead of a wagon is used'by the rur::i life delivery mail carirernt Sew Su flToik, L. I. The route lies along the shores of a small protected bay.