The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-30

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stone; and he never saw or heard OF it
again, though he offered aiberal reward
for its restoration.
Our next story relates to a young mar
ried lady who came with her husband |
to pay visit to friends who lived in the |
country, very close to small rural vii |
lage. There were little children at
home; and, on the day preceding her re-
turn, the lady went to the village shop
to purchase some triaing 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-
cbases to her husband and friends.
Suddenly she started and exclaimed
so my ring! I've lost my diamond
ring!" On the third finger of her right
hand she had worn valuable diamond
ring. It was too wide for her, and she
had frequently irtended to have it's size
reduced but this precaution had hith-
erto been neglected, and she did not
ordinarily wear it, from dread ct the
misfortune that had now occurred.
Every one was Immediately on the
alert. The village was small I; perfect
honesty prevailed among it's 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 OBJ
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 la 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 mischance entirely on
herself, by negleeting the trifing altera-
ton that would have prevented 1t.
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 a 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, filled with the
works of ancient and modern authors.
Shelf after shelf was cleared OF its con-
tents and in 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 It's 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!
It 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
spection of them. When finished, she
replaced them in the shelves and at
J 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 1t was SO unexpectedly
discovered.
Another curious loss and recovery of
: 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 parcel of new
, music that had just arrived for her.
Sitting down to the 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 forsdinner, and,
owing to the time that had been spent
over the new music, we're rather hurried
IN their movements, as 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 the 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
small salver. The young lady took them
up, glanced at them, and said: stThere
ought to be one more-my sapphire
ring. Please to go back to Smith, and
ask her to look for it"
He rRaNt WAS absent rather longer