The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-12
A HISTORIC RING,
A Circlet That Has s. IL Many Phases G

A Circlet That Has s. =, Many Phases Of
Life.
A gentleman known in Boston, Mass,
business circles as bold Spectator is
one of the regular customers of a we'll
known money lender in that city, and
his usual pledge is a ring. which the
proprietor describes as follows:
This ring has a history. and a ro-
mantle one. 1t has been pledged num-
berless times, and the owner would not
sell it for any price on account of its
history, which he has related to me
infinitely several times, and which I
know to be authentic in every particu-
lar. l can give names, except in later
generations. just as he has told me.
''Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, one OF
the signers of the Declaration Of indie
pendence, had two beautiful daughters,
who went to England in 1894. One mar
ried the Duke of Leeds and the other
Richard Wellesley, brother of Sir
Arthur Wellesley. afterward the Duke
OF Wellington. At the marriage of the
latter, in the Castle of Dublin, the bride
received this ring from Sir Arthur
Wellesley.
The two figures, painted by Nomar.
celebrated miniature painter of that
date, are beautiful in design and execu-
ton, and the manner of setting the
pearls and rubies to the eye of the con.
noisseur proves it to be genuine without
doubt. This ring was worn at Brussels
the night before the battle of Waterloo,
at the party described in the we'll known
poem of Byron, beginning: There was
sound of revelry by night
ITO make long story short, the ring
descended, generally by will. through
different members of the Carroll family.
until it came into the present owners
hands by gift from Letitia. the last OF
the CAROLS, now mother superior of a
convent in Baltimore.
''Think of the bright eyes which have
gazed upon this beautiful ring! All the
people living at the time this ring was
given to the beautiful bride in Dublin
castle are no more. All the great armies
of Wellington and all those mighty
hosts which followed the war drums of
his foe, the great Napoleon, have gone
to the great beyond while this bauble,
just as bright, the colors of the paint
lngs just as clear as ever, now reposes
in the safe of a Boston money lender.
From the Duke of Wellington to pawn
shop does this not furnish food for
thought -Jewelers' Weekly.
ON BUSINESS INTENT.
A Maiden Who Made the Most of the
Opportunity.
She was cOnvalescent from the grin.
and as she leaned back in the depths of
her easy chair she played with the roses
in her lap, which had been brought her
by the first caller she had been able to
receive, and smiled over some stories he
was telling her of his last summer at
well, we'll only say at certain fashion
able watering place on Narragansett
bay. ''Onc of the beauties whom I
used to see at the Casino" said he, was
young married belle about twenty
three or four, should think, and her
husband was about sixty; and it was
great fun watching them. There was
such good story, bona fide truth it
was, too, about their engagement He
called at her home one evening and
offered his heart, hand and fortune
(which was large enough to gild almost
any pilD in correct style. Pretty Miss
Bud said she must ask mamma and
coyly tripped upstairs to mamma, who
told her that every girl did not get such
a chance as that, and of course she was
to accept him. Down she went, pictur-
ing the ardent lover awaiting her re-
turn with anxious, .throbbing heart.
and found the old gentleman comfort
ably asleep in the biggest armchair.
while an occasional snore attested to
the depths of his slumbers." II hone
she didn't wake the poor old thing up,"
said the convalescent, when she had cot
her breath again after her laugh. 20,
yes she did. Catch her losing that
chance! She woke him up and told him
1T was all right and she'd have him.
Shed never been at the Casino in dia-
monds and laces if she hadnt.-Bostou
0Asstta.