Where Do The Diamonds Go?

What beoomes of the diamonds is as interesting a question as the one rolating the fafce of the pins. Here is the fact that these preoious stones have been worn as ornamenta almost ever since womsa conceived that they niight adorn natur- They are iudestructible and unchangeable ;,the number of them in existence is oonstántly being inoreased, and yot they maintain a steady price, the deinaud never being less than the supply. One ruighi 8uppose that, as a diamond is athingthai does not fade iior perish, thero woulri recome a glut of them ; that even bodj might own such a jewel, and that, cou;equently, the value of them would deprecíate. ín 1872, there were no less thai $5,000,000 worth of diamonds taken trono the fields of South África, alone, but prices in the market were advanced ratbei than lessened. Porhaps this is very largely due to the constant American cüll ioi diamonds. Peoplo in thia country takt more and more of them every year, and the possession of a stone, large or small i an object of ambition to nearly all wo men and to very man y men. Wo are pro bably the best customers of all the worlc to the diamond-diggers, and do a portion able share towards keeping up the valu of the gems. The same engine at Spencer, Mass. grinds sausage and prints the village pa per. The price of a fashionable bennet i now 1Ów?t than its height.