Monsieur G. Trouve, of Paris, has conceived the idea of manufacturing artificial jewellery which, although entirely produced by craftsmanship, will in one respect by far surpass natural diamonds. These cannot, of course, display their brilliance unless they receive light from the outside: a diamond cannot sparkle in the dark, at most preserving a faint afterglow, whereas Trouve's artificial jewels have an interior light source of their own from which will emanate the most brilliant, colored rays of light, even in the dark. They consist of a hollow enclosed in red and white glass lenses with ground facets and are not very different in shape from polished rubies and diamonds. The space inside the jewel contains a tiny electric light bulb connected by means of two thin conducting-wires to a small galvanic battery that may be concealed between the pins, in the hair or in one's garments. A battery giving off enough electricity to light the bulb for half |