Light yellow

straw, and brown are the most common colors; rich yellow and browns are also highly prized. Some bluish-white Brazilian diamonds are phosphorescent in the dark after exposure to the sunlight. The diamond 'is unaffected by any liquid and inf us- ‘ible at the highest attainable temperature. It gradually burns away before the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, or in the electric furnace, or when it is heated red-hot and plunged into un ~ay. THE KOHINUR. sphere of oxygen, carbonic acid then being produced. L., an American clergyman born in Gibson co., Tenn., farch 3, 1853; was graduated at Bethel College in 1879; and held pastorates in the Cumber land Presbyterian Church, He taught and was pat of Bethel College, Trinity niversity, and of Quanah College, Texas. He was also superintendent of the South Central District of the oe Society of Religious Educaion.