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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1360, 25 September 1883, Page 1

The largest pearl in the world has been found recently in Lower California (Mexico) by one of the fishers (or divers) belonging to the firm of GonsaloX & Ruffo, merchants at La Paz. The pearl is of the dimensions of a lemon, weighing 75 carats, and measures one inch in length and three-fourths of an inch in width. It took the fisher who opened the shell several minutes to extract the Pearl. There is no doubt that the coast of Lower California is very rich. r l’he largest pearl known before was also found on that coast, in Loreto, in the time of the Jesuits, and adorned the crown of the Queen of Spain. Woman, in reading a newspaper, has a distinct method of her own, She takes it up hurriedly and begins to scan it over rapidly, as though she was hunting some particular thing ; qut she is not. She is merely taking in the obscure paragraphs, which she believes were put in out of-the-way places for the sake of keeping her from seeing them. Marriages and deaths are always interesting to her, and the advertisements arc exciting and stimulating, She cares but little for printed jokes, unless they reflect on the men, and then she delights in them and never forgets them, She pays particular attention to anything first-handed. The column in which the editor airs his opinions she rarely reads. Views are of no importance in her estimation, but facts are everything. She doesn’t cars for it, but makes a practice of reading it because she thinks she ought to do so. She reads stories, sketches, and paragraphs indiscriminately, and believes every word of them. After she has read all she wants she lays the paper down with an air of disappointment, as she observes that “ there is nothing in it.