The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-23
Strange Discoveries Of Lost Articles.
chambers Journal.1


At a friends house one evening, a lady
present, who was a good musician, was
requested to sing. Before doing so. she
took off very handsome diamond ring,
saying it was rather large for her, and
used sometimes to fall off her finger
when she was playing. She laid it with
her gloves on the piano near her. As
she rose from the piano, she was going to
replace her ring, but it had disappeared.
The gloves were there safe enough, under
some pieces of music, but no sign Of the
ring.
Search was made Immediately every
where that it was possible that a ring
could have fallen, to no purpose. Two
years went by without any tidings of the
missing ring, when one day strange
kind Of jingling noise was noticed in the
piano. A tuner was sent for, and on the
works being examined to see what caused
the noise, he found the diamond ring,
which somehow had got within the wires
when the position of the piano had been
changed a short time before.
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beautiful half-hoop emerald ring by my
uncle, who brought it to me from India,
and accordingly valued it very much,
and always wore it. One day, on my
return from morning concert, l missed
it. How or where / had lost it l did
not know. remembered perfectly well
seeing it on my finger in the concert
room, for had taken off my glove to
arrange the opera-glasses. l looked in
ali directions for it. Thinking | might
have dropped it in the street, l had
bills printed and posted everywhere, Of
fering large reward for its recovery.
But as weeks and months went by and
heard nothing Of it, I gave up all hope
of ever seeing my favorite ring again.
1t was nearly six years after that, no
ticing the lining OF my muff had become
rather worn, l ripped it off to measure
what quantity of silk would be required
for refining it, when / thought / fell
something hard in the stuffing. Or
taking it out what was my delight to SCI
once more my much-valued, long-los
emerald ringl Though / did not dis
tinctly remember it, / must have hat
the muff with ME the day l was at tht
concert, and my glove being off, in SOM
way or other the ring must have slipped
in through rip in the silk lining.
A gentleman sitting at an open win
dow, being called out of the room, lef
on the window-sill small gold pencil
with which he had been writing. Whel
he returned in few minutes no penci
was there. This appeared very strang
to him, for no one had entered the room
while he was away; 80 he was completed,
puzzled as to where it had SO quickly dis
appeared. Next autumn, when tn
leaves were off the trees, bright objec
was seen hanging from the very highes
, branch Of large beech tree.
With some difficulty it was reached
and proved to be the missing pencil
which had short piece of black cor
fastened to it. As the trees about ther
were known to be favorite resort O
magpies, it was thought that one of ther
had snatched the pencil off the window
sill, as they are well-known thieves G
any shining objects; and most likely tn
cord had caught in the branch and hel
before the magpie could convey it to hi
hiding-place. .~ ~
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