Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-01
A LOVE RING,

Love bears prominent part in
the romance of tinger.rings, as need
scarcely be said. Petrarch, for in.
stance, relates of Charlemagne that
he was so fondly attached to a fair
lady that after her death he carried
about her embalmed body in a su
perb coffin. and could not forsake it.
A venerable and learned Bishop, who
thought living beauty was prefera-
BILE to the remains of departed one,
rebuked his sovereign for his irrelig.
lous and strange passion, and re-
vealed to him the important secret
that his love arose from a charm that
lay under the woman's tongue, and
drew from her mouth a love ring.
which the Emperor had scarcely
looked upon when he abhorred the
former object of his attachment, and
telt such an extraordinary regard for
the Bishop that he could not dis.
pense with his presence for single
moment, until the good prelate was
so troubled with royal favor that he
cast the ring into a lake. The EN-
peror happened to be attracted to
the site of the submerged ring, and
in consequence founded upon its
bank a palace and church, which
gave birth to AK a-ChapelIe.
The Germans have legend which
they connect with Charlemagne's
ring. The Emperor, on his death.
bed, was in ceaseless agony until the
charmed circlet was fished out of the
lake aud placed upon his finger, when
he passed peacefully away. When
the great monarch's tomb was
opened the talisman was found and
presented by the city to Napoleon l.,
who gave it to Hortense, at whose
death 1t descended to her son Louis
Napoleon. 1t must have lost its
charm by then, for the French PEG
pie at least The legend has it that
this valuable trinket was one of the
gifts sent TO Charlemange by Haroun
al Raschid, one of whose magicians
forged it out OF meteoric gold.
Most of the readers OF the Dispatch
have heard the opera "Zampa." The
story of the statue and ring which
torn its plot are gathered from one
by Florignus. A young Roman, on
his wedding day, went out walking
with his bride and some friends after
dinner Towards evening be got to
tenAis court, and willis be PLAYED
he took off his ring and placed it up
on the finger of brass statue OF
Venus. The game finished, he wen,
to fetch his ring; but Venus had
bent her finger upon it, and he could
not get it off. So. 10th to make his
companions tarry, he left it, intend
ing to fetch it the next day, and
went to supper and to bed, but, in
the night, the truly brazen Venus
had slipped between him and bis
bride, and thus troubled him for
several successive nights. Not know
ing how to help himself, he applied
to one Palumbus,a learned magician,
VINO gave him letter and babe him
be, at such a time Of night, in such a
cross way, where q i Saturn would
pass by with his associates on their
nightly rounds, to deliver to him the
epistle. The young man accordingly
did so, and when Saturn had read it.
he called Venus. who was riding ha.
fore him, and commanded her to de.
liver the ring, which forthwith she
did.
"rHE D-DEsT PART OF MATBIMoNY."
A curious point in Lord Byron's
history has lately been raised, with
hich q ring has direct connection.
Btfy..'S mother was his female self,
ia temper and in the unhaPplness of
hcr lie, ef y hich his own career was
but a reproduction. AT Newstead