Garnet

a beautiful mineral cla ed among the gems. It is generally of some shade of red, but is often brown, and sometimes green,’ yellow or black. Coarse garnets reduced to a powder are substituted for emery in some cases, Garnet, Henry Highland, an Afro-American clergyman; born a slave in 1815, in New Market, Md., whence his parents escaped with him in 1826 to New York city. He graduated at Oneida Institute, Utica, N. Y., in 1840, and after a career as pastor, mi ionary and as a valued lecturer on the slavery question, he was appointed United States Minister Resident in Liberia. He died shortly after in 1882.