If Queen Victoria were compelled to wear the beautiful crown, of which she is so worthy, all the time, she would be a woman greatly to be pitied and never to be envied, for that magnificent affair weighs nearly two pounds. It holds more than 3,000 precious stones, more than 2,700 of which are diamonds. The golden headband holds two rows of pearls, the lower having 129 and the upper 112 of these treasured stones. Between these bands in front is a large sapphire, and behind it a small sapphire—small only when compared with the one in front, however—with six still smaller ones and eight emeralds. Between the sapphires fore and aft are ornaments containing 286 diamonds. Surmounting the band are eight sapphires, above which are eight diamonds, and eight festoons which hold 160 diamonds, and in the front, set in a Maltese cross composed of 75 large diamonds, is the magnificent ruby given to the Black Prince in 1367 by Pedro, king of Castile, and which was worn by that dashing monarch Henry V. on his helmet at the battle of Agincourt. In addition to these, three crosses containing 386 diamonds are set around the upper part of the crown, between which are four ornaments, each holding a ruby in its center, and containing, respectively, eighty-four, eighty-six, eighty-five, and eighty-seven diamonds. From the crosses rise four arches composed of oak leaves and acorns, the oak leaves containing 728 diamonds, and the acorns—thirty-two in number—made each of a single pearl set in cups composed of diamonds. Surmounting the arches is the base of the cross which surmounts the whole. The base, or mound, as it is called, contains 648 diamonds, and the cross—the crowning glory of all this magnificence—contains a large sapphire and 112 diamonds. Of course, anything so grand as this is worth a great deal of money, and the value placed upon it by experts is $1,500,000. It is kept in a great iron cage, along with the other crown jewels, in the Tower of London.—Harper’s Young People.