The Forrest City times., 1891-08-14
PRECIOUS DIAMONDS
orRANOE STORIES OF HOW
 THEY HAVE BEEN LOST.
A Tale of . Jewel and . Lover-A Ring Lost For Two Years and Found Tn . Skirt-The Part Girls
 Parasol Played.

lost from sight under our eyes is a phenomenon that still remains unex- plained, but an incident occurred few days ago that was decidedly unique. A young married lady, who lives on Olive. just beyond Grand avenue, says the Post-Dispatch, was the sufferer, and she lost a valuable diamond ring. She was spending an hour at down. town establishment where manicuring. massage and baths of various kinds are administered to many women of fashion. when the proprietress noticed that she had tied something securely in her handkerchief and held it out in her hand to be placed in safety. Il have tied my diamonds in my handkerchief" she said. You may look at them if you choose"
 'Indeed will. for I love precious stones" said the proprietress, taking them and settling down ip the next room, leaving the door ajar.
 While she was examining them with great enjoyment and counting the finger rings, which all had handsome settings, some of magnificent diamonds, her daughter came in, her purse in her hand. Turning to her daughter she said Come and see what pretty dia- monds Mrs. s. has"
 The daughter aud mother looked at the jewels and duly admired them all. and just as the mother was going to replace them in the handkerchief she noticed that one ring was missing.
 She searched diligently without find ing it and had almost come to the con- clusion she must have counted wrong, but upon asking Mrs. $. she had her own impression confirmed that there were six when she received them Both herself and daughter looked everywhere. shook out their skirts the rugs. the table covers. yet no ring dropped out and no trace of it was found in the room. By this time the owner had joined them, and most diligent search was instigated with like disappointment
 ''It is one of the handsemest of all" said Mrs. S., "a $600 diamond that was my engagement ring"
 The proprietress had become much excited when the ring could not be produced and sine gave orders that no one should enter the room until the ring was found. In looking carefully over the room but one place was dis covered where any article the size of a ring could be lost, and that was a little place under the chair board where piece had been torn off.
 "I'll send for carpenter said the proprietress, and have the chair board ripped of and see if it could have rolled under that space"
 She told the daughter to go quickly to the nearest point where they could obtain the help of carpenter and just as the young lady was leaving the room she lifted her parasol. and with resounding noise the missing ring fell out. It had dropped into the parasol while the young girl stood by her mrother looking at the rings. There was great rejoicing among those ladies' and they vowed they would not touch anybody's diamonds ever again.
 Another accident occurred to lady who used to visit St Louis every sum- mer on her way East She had very beautiful rings and one that she valued greatly. She had taken drive with Judge Ireland. once the governor of Texas, one afternoon and wore that ring. Just before she reached home before leaving the buggy she discov- cred that her ring was gone She felt so dreadfully at her loss that they re- turned part of their drive in the vain hope of finding it and made a diligent and thorough search of the buggy. all to no purpose.
 She turned her rooms upside down when she got home, hoping to find the ring. although she remembered seeing it on her third finger during the drive. The ring was not found. and a year afterward she had never heard of it offered to anyone who happened to find 1t. Two years afterward she was pre- pairing for her usual eastern trip, when che determined to have a dress she had had long time ripped up to bring to St Louis to have colored. When 1t was being ripped loose from the skirt lining the seamstress who was doing the ripping said; II keep feeling some weight in this dress at the bot tom and can't locate It." After she had nearly completed her ripping she shook the goods, and out dropped two magnificent rings with solitaire dia- mond of the first water.
 My ring. My ring" the lady ex- claimed. jumping forward and picking 1t up Then she remembered that the dress just ripped was the dress she had worn upon the day she missed her ring, and evidently she had put her hand in her pocket and there was rip somewhere between the silk and the lining.
 Another incident is even moro curious. A pretty young lady who does not live very far from Vande- venter Place had lovely pair of solitaire earrings and she lost one of them. to her infinite sorrow. She could not find it anywhere and. she re- signed herself to doing without diamond earrings. But she had a sweetheart that she loved very much and whose birthday was approaching. She determined to make him a very handsome present and at the same time dispose of a sad remainder. She took the solitary earring to jeweler and had her lover a beautiful scarf pin made and presented it to him on his