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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 308, 28 December 1881, Page 1

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In one of the bazaars, says a letter from! India, we saw some fakirs and devotees. One of these remarkable fellows had vowed; to lie upon a bed of upright nails for. twentysix years, and of these he" had accomplished sixteen when we saw him! His body was attenuated and full of sores resembling leprous spots. We asked him for one of the nails which pierced his miserable body. He tooki one from the foot of the bed, refusing in ' every instance to part with any of those which gave him the most exquisite pain. Another miserable devotee was. holding a flower-pot at arm's length. Judge of my surprise when he told me he had held it there for five years. Another stood with arm uplifted, and no power to lower it or move a muscle, the member being dried, stiff and dead, while the long finger-nails, like bird's claws, penetrated the flesh on his wrist. All of these fellowß looked moody and sad. From all account* the wonderful Koh-i-noor or " Mountain of Light," the property of her Britannic Majesty, is eclipsed by a recently discovered diamond found in South Africa, and now in possession of Mr Porter-Rhodes, who is, I believe, the fortunate discoverer of the gem. The weight of the newly-found stone is 150 carats. It is uncut, but from its peculiarly favourable shape is not expected to lose more than ten carats during tha process The diamond is as big as a very large walnut and is described as " like a hailstone in sunlight, of a bewitching transparency and brilliant whiteness no other precious metal can vie with." The stone was recently shown to the Prince of Wales at Marlborough House, and his best diamonds, when placed beside the Porter-Rhodes stone, were seen to be <( off colour." Offers for his property flow in upon the lucky owner from all parts of Europe. The first offer received was £50,000 ; the last made was £100,000. The owner's banks, I hear, are willing to advance £60,000 against the security." The stone will not, it is thought, change hands under £200,000, which is just £60,000 more than the famous Kob-i-noor is valued at. Mr Porter-Rhodes asks the trifling sum of £300,000, for his property, and does not seem m any hurry to dispose of it. It is rumoured . that a Russian prince is in treaty for the jewel, M. Larcque, in a note to the Academy of Sciences at Paris, mentions a carious phenomenon noticed by him during a thunderstorm on June 25 th last, which took place at Montamaurin, in Haute Garonne, France. He noticed that one of a tuft of bis lilies (the talleat of them) was surrounded by a diffuafl purple colored light which formed an aureola round the carolla, and this light !a*trd 8 or 10 seconds. When it had vanished be approached the lily aod foaod to his great surprise tbat it was totally •teprived of its pollen, worst the iurrounoiog flowers retained theirs. The electric flaid had scattered it.