The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-06
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5n'' bo'OhehhS C'ias "u'u heeu NOT lduot
II IA It's hands, rings have a.wa 70 been the favor
IS fpriuces and ladies. Tn. history and p1stry
Il dnger-riugs are laid M IN numerous Il, armed
4 ,atise,, which no one but Dr. DryIsdust would
\ cam OF perusipr. We shall rudeavor however
! the space OF a short article. TO give a few par-
I sular,. as a samp.c of the rirrious history AMI
tefestiug lore connected with riprs and leave
c professed archpllgrian disiutrr as unuch
\ ore as he pleases
Enduring as rings are, their antiquity reaches
7 bcyopd the Oldest we can see in museums
\ le earliest mention of their use occurs in the
ook Of Genesis, some l727 years B. G. but il is
litc moss ME that tbp r,m,i,. 5or J;J,,;; 100.
even the still more mythica. prehistoric man
ere ring We afterwards ear in the sacred
i ,oids, Of Pharaoh's riug, rud that used by
\ srius AZ Bahylon and Hero ,otus tells MS MI
n e BABY lonl3esIs used TO wear wings. they were
ignaliy intEnded strictly for use as signet-riugs
A I'd moi as ornaments. and the:- use as such soon
read from the East into Europe In the Homerlc
jemS there arc no traces OF wearing rings and
9 earliest rings used I'm Greece (a6out Solons
fme) we're signct-rings for use only.
They soon b,chme fashion. pie as ornaments
1w ever. with precious sore, set and engraved
hem, dandies CrOwding th air fingers with them
D to the nails like modern Jr VS. or card -playinr
I)wagers The Lacedmmonntus always wore
l on rings. Some amongst the German tribes, in
II IL time of Tacitus wore ring, of that metal till
| icy had slain an enemy in war. As for the
| omans the best authorities assert that tbey re.
II lived the fashion of rinE-u caring from the
Ieeks; but il prob ably filtered simultaneously
}lrough 10 both na'ions from tue PelasCians. who
yery early times settled on the coasts of the
iLedterrs mean, and kept up friendly intercourse
l it'll the orieutals.
The Roman rings were at first always of iron.
nd strictly for use, but increasing luxury cor.
Ipted this primitive fashion. Still such men as
JRrius, and such families as held whatwe should
jall good old Troy principles, never gave up the
Ion ring The Roman fast voung men made an
| lnprOvt ment on the Greek prJtusiOu, by intro
1uciUg light rings for summer wear, and heavier
j mes for winter. From the rings of the Roman
nights and the officer who had the care of the
|mperoI's state sipnct in later days (answerng
: cur Great Seal h history ufrings comes do y1
II our own time without any other very note
1 lorthy remark.
4 Rings play an important part in many orien-
III legends, especially Solouons ring which
mongst other maryels, sealed up the refractory
ins in jars, and cast them into the Red Sea. A
.ydian hero, Gyges, possessed famous ring
vi iCh rendered him invisible whenever its stone
Pas turned lnwards. As PLATO tells of the mar
|ellOus manner in which he ac luired it, we could
finest fancy he had heard the story told by some
astem Scneherazade, SO exactly is it like an
.rabian nights entertainment. 1t is remark able,
Is showing the universally OF legends which often
re the fairy tales of rising nations, that this very
lame story comes up again iU he Welsh romance
Df "MOIte d'Aithur." One is there said TO have
ring which possessed this virtue when SO
anded, and which, with Guendolen's chess
board, was IeckOned among the thirteen wonders
II Britain. Another famous Greek story tells of
'he ring of POlycrates He was warned in the
me of his greatest prosperity by pious king of
IN order to propitiate Nemesis. Manning a boat,
therefore, he rowed out TO the open sea- and flung
In the depths his ring. which was of gold, with
In emerald gem, the setting of the removed Theo-
Iorus. This being very dear 10 him, he grieved
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