CLIPPINGS FROM HOME PAPERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3528, 13 June 1874, Page 3

CLIPPINGS FROM HOME PAPERS.

A LAEGE DIAMOND. _A New York journal says:—“ The New York Diamond Company exhibited yesterday the largest ever imported into this country. In its rough state it weighed eighty carats. The design and cutting of this gem were done personally by I, Hermann, president of the company. It was found in the South Africa dia-mond-fields, and was valued in the rough at l®»® u odoL It lost about 33 per cent, in cutting, and is now valued at about 40,000d01. It is Jtoti for sde, but was exhibited as a choice fipeciiQEii of a jj’ew branch of indjistpy Bsta|?r *ij*fl®d in this city, whiph lias so far advanced that if upw rivals in results of workmanship the best efforts of the diampnd workmen pf Amsterdam. Five months’ time was occupied Sj? c \* tfci os. and the brilliant, although slightly off color, being a delicate straw shade, is a marvel of beauty. When disturbed by any movement, it seems to pour out new floods of light, until the eyes are dazzled by its splendour.” - PATTI IN A FLOWER STORM. . The ‘Times’ correspondent of St. Petersburg writes : —Last night (February 19) was Pattis benefit at the Grand Theatre, where the famous songstress received a welcome fairly astonishing to those who had never before witnessed the enthusiasm with which a Russian audience greets a favorite prima donna. A diamond coronal and great bouquets and wreaths without number were presented between the acts, and at the conclusion of the opera the stage was literally heaped with flowers and wreaths. Patti at last could do no more than pick up one or two and press them to her heart, and the attendants had to come on with great baskets, and even then had hard work to dear the stage. The opera was “La Traviata.” Patti was in perfect voice, and looked and sang and acted her very best. His Royal Highness the Pnnce of Wales was present.