Here is a chance for a speculator with faith in
science. Pro- fessor H. Carvell Lewis, in the course of a paper read before the British Association, declared that the diamond-fields at Kim- berley were pierced with " pipes " of unknown depth, leading into the interior of the earth. The deeper the miners reach, the more plentiful the finds, the best diamonds having been extracted from hard blue clay six hundred feet below the surface. The only spot in the world where similar pipes were known to exist was at a place which he named in Kentucky, and he intimated his opinion that if search were made there, diamonds would be found. We presume search will be made at once. Indeed, the keen agents of the American newspapers have been un- usually blind to their chance of a grand sensation, if Pro- fessor Lewis's opinion has not already been cabled to every city in the Union, raising the value of " real estate " in that section of Kentucky about tenfold. It seems to be the destiny of the Union to send down the price of all things, from silver and copper to wheat and bacon, and perhaps she will now send down that of diamonds. Her diggers, if there are diamonds, are sure to dig deeper than anybody, and will be unhappy if they do not find a stone bigger than the Star of the South.
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