The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-31
NUMBER lC

dentally meeting the lady, was struck
her resemblance to his dead wife, fou
out her abode, and finally claimed her
his own. When the case came for trT
the second husband did not dispute
fact of identity, but pleaded that his n
had reuounccd all claim to the lady by
dering her to be buried, without first m
ing sure that she was dead, and that s.
would have been dead and rotting in J.
grave if he had not rescued her. ]
court was saved the trouble Of deciding
knotty point, for, seeing that it was Hk
to pronounce against them, the fond /
quietly slipped out of France, and fou
refuge in "a foreign cline, where their b.
continued sacred and entire till death c,
veyed them to those happy regions VII
love knows TO end, and is confined wit,
no limits.''
Of dead-alive ladies brought to console
ness by sacrilegious robbers, covetous
the rings upon their cold fingers, no
than seven stories, differing but slig'
from each other, have been preserved.
one the scene is laid in Halifax in ar,
er, in Gloucestershire in third, III S
ersetshire in the fourth, in Drogho,
the remaining three being appropriated
as many towns in Germany.
Ring stories have a a knack of runni
in one groove. HerodOtus tells us /,
Amasis advised Polyciates, as a cha
against misfortune, to throw away sor
gem he especially valued; how, taking
advice, Polycrates weItsseaward in n be
and cast his favorite ring into the oce
and how, few days afterward, q fisheru
caught large fsh, so extraordinary
that he thought it fit only for the roya-
BILE, and accordingly presented it t.
fortunate monarch, who ordered it 80
dressed for supper; and 10 when the
was opened, the surprised cook astoniSh
eye beheld his masters castaway Il
much to that masters delight, but his
viser's dismay; for when Amasis heard
the wonderful event, he Immediately
patched a herald to break his contract
friendship with Polycrates. sfeeling c.
dent the latter would come to an Ill
'eas he prospered in everything, ever
finding what he had thrown away"
The city Of Glasgow owes the ring n
ing salmon figuring in its armorial bear
to a legend concerning its patron, :
Kentigern, thus told into the "Acta
tOrun'': "a queen, having forHCd
improper attachment 10 handsoms 5
dier, put on his finger a precious
which her own lord had conferred on
The king, made aware of the fact, but
sembling his anger, took an opportg"
in hunting, while the soldier lay asleep
side the Clyde, to snatch off the ring
throw it into the river. Then return
home along with the soldier, he demar d
of the queen the ring he Lad given h
She sent secretly to the soldier for the II.
which could not be restored. In great &
ror she then dispatched a messenger to-
the assistance of the holy KentigeTn.
who knew of the affair before being
formed of it, went to the river Clyde,
having caught salmon, took from
stomach the missing ring, which he s.,
to the queen. She joyfully went with II
the king, who, thinking he had wrcES
her, swore he would be revenged upon b
accusers; but she, affecting forgivi
spirit, besought him to pardon them,
she had done. At The same time she c.
fessed her error to Kentigern, and soleI-
ly vowed to be more careful of her conc a.
in the future.
In 1863, a merchant and alderman
Newcastle, named Anderson, handling J
ring as he leaned over the bridge, drcpI,
it in the Tyne. Some time after, his Sc
want bought a salmon in the market,
whose stomach the lost ring was fouh
Its value enhanced by the strange rec
cry, the ring became an heirloom, and W
in the possession of one of the aldermal
descendants some forty years ago.
A similar incident, ending in sim.
way, is recorded to have happened TO oI
of the Dukes of Lorraine. [Chambel
Journal.