The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-12-01

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A thief had been there during his alb
sence, had seen and appropriated the
stone and he never saw or heard OF II
again, though he offered aliberal reward
for it's restoration.
Our next story relates to young mar,
ried lady who came with her husband
to pay visit to friends who lived In the
country, very close to q small rural VII.
lage. There were little children ut
home: and, on the day preceding her re-
turn, the lady went to the village shop |
TO purchase some trihing gifts for the |
juveniles. She took off Der glove to get |
the silver from the purse and as the day |
was warm, and the distance she had to |
return very short, she did not put the
glove on again, but carried it back In
her hand. Whenshe reached the house
she sat down and exhibited her pur-
chases to her husband and friends.
Suddenly she started and exclaimed
so my ringl I've lost my diamond
ring I" On the third finger Of her right
hand she had worn valuable diamond
ring. 1t was too wide for her, and she
had frequently Intended to have its size
reduced ; but this precaution had hith-
erto been neglected, and she did not
ordinarily wear it, from dread of the
misfortune that had now occurred.
Every one was Immediately on the
alert. The village was small ; perfect
honesty prevailed among its inhabitants,
and there had been no one in the
shop when the lady was there,
and only one or two of the
villagers since, who had not been oh
served to pick up anything. The floor
of the shop was thoroughly searched in
every corner the room where the lady
had been sitting and also her bedroom
were closely examined but nothing
could be seen of the ring. As she was
positive that it had been on her hand
Just before she went out, for she dis
tinctly remembered twirling it round
and round with her fingers, band of
the village children was collected, ar
ranged in row, and desired to search
the ground of the short avenue and the
road to the shop as infinitely as possible;
proper remuneration being promised,
and tempting reward held out to the
finder of the ring. They did their work
very diligently but it was all in vain.
No trace of the ring was to be seen and
the lady reluctantly admitted that she
had brought the mischanee entirely on
herself, by neglecting the trifing altera-
ton that would have prevented it.
Many months passed away. The
friends whom the lady had been visiting
had gone from home for time and in
their absence the servants gave the
house thorough cleaning from top to
bottom. They came to the library, the
room usually occupied in the morning,
and which was almost entirely sur
rounded by book. shelves, filed with the
works of ancient and modern authors.
Shelf after shelf was cleared of its con-
tents (; and III the course of operations
they came to one containing collection
Of antique volumes, rare from their
choice binding and from the nature of
their contents subjects eschewed by the
ordinary class of novel-readers or stu
dents of light literature. AS one of
those heavy volumes was gently removed
from its resting place, something fell
from it and rolled to the back of the
shelf. One of the servants stopped
down to see what it was, and the next
moment triumphantly displayed in her.
hand the long lost diamond ring!
1t transpired afterward that Just be-
fore she went to the village shop the
lady had been examining some of the
shelves in the library, and had taken
out several of the massive volumes we
have mentioned, to make nearer in
spechon of them. When finished, she
replaced them in the shelves and at
that time the too-wide ring must have
fallen unperceived from her finger, and
rested on the top of the book, which had
not been touched from that day till the
one on which it was so unexpectedly
discovered.
Another curious loss and recovery of
a ring was as follows A young lady,
engaged to be married, had received
many beautiful gifts from her betrothed,
one of them being valuable sapphire
ring. She had been out walking with
him one afternoon, and on her return
home she observed a parcel of new
music that had just arrived for her.
Sitting down to tho piano, she played
over several of the pieces, chatting occa-
sionally as she did so with her mother
and sisters, who were at work in the
drawing-room. Soon afterward they all
went upstairs to dress forldinner, and,
owing to the time that had been spent
over the new music, were rather hurried
in their movements, rs it was close on
the dinner-hour. The bell sounded al
most before the young lady was ready,
and, hastily finishing her toilet, she ran
down to join the circle in the drawing
room. Proceeding to tho dining-room,
she found that she had neglected to put
on her rings, and, calling one of the
servants, she desired him to tell her
maid that she would find them lying on
the wash-hand stand, as she had laid
them there before washing her hands.
The man quilted the room, and returned
in few minutes carrying the rings on a
small salver. The young lady took them
up, glanced ut them, and said: "There
ought to be one more-my sapphire
ring. Please To go back to Smith, and
ask her to look for it.
He went, was absent rather longer
this time, aud on his return informed
his young mistress that no other ring
was to be seen.
ooh, it must be there" said the
young lady. 81 laid them all down to-
gether. However, I'll go and look my
self after dinner"
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