Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-09-29

! cer,ain no knew the exnct spot where
! Il had been laid. and had little rear ina,
! In so unfrequented a place any one cou'i
have discovered II. But the ring was
gone and. search as he might not
trace could De found OF II.
Years afterward, among The 'tters
( that had reached his Office thers was
one from Australia. sealed with wax.
/ on looking at the seal he was filled WIN
! establishment at seeing the impression,
/ OF his own lost signet ling. f'Ncttu
! and interested. ne at once wrote 10 ms
friend IN Australia. In due time the
answer came HIS friend told MN
how somewhere up-country he went mo
a store Go write his letter, or 10 d""
something TO what already hsd pten
written. Upon finishing IL he was making
some awkward attempt TO improvise "A
seal. when a man, quite q stranger I"
him. thrust his hand into his pocket.
pulled out a signet ring, ana said, Ihere'
try that Having sealed the letter WIN
the ring. ne handed IT back. THIS was
all, and no further light has ever peeh
thrown upon the story OF the rins or l's
possessOr"
In the year 1876 three scholars OF Ballioi.
IN for the Irelend scholarship. thought OK
trying the sortes by opening coitu'
poetarum and taking line at ranh'fn'
The yortes gave them Claudian, lie L1uil-
bus Sullchonis. H.. 25l:
...totam cum Scotus Iernen
Movit,
Jerne. meaning ireland. made sum
GENTLY remarkable coincidence In liSeii'
But. in addition. the other name was
prophetic; the Ireland scholarship OF that
year was gained by Mr., waiter Scot,'
Some wears ago Mr. c., who had just
come TO Scotland. met Mr. f., stranger
81 friend
him at supper. The conversation turned
on fiction. and latterly on short stories,
"On,. Of the very strangost and eeriest
ever read" said Mr. G.. II came across
in one of the magazines
think II WAS called. a Telegraphists
story and IL read So like actual truth
that | couldn't help Wishing were able
10 nut a question or two 10 the author
"Well. you can do that now. Mr.. -
said the host, FOR Mr.. J.. Is s't'lhs ~
side YOU. and he is the writer OF the
story
one other incident also connected WIN
Glasgow. although it has already ap-
reared in q letter written to the Athe-
raeum" Is worth repeating
MIR Bryce well known as publisher IN
Glasgow. relates how the late Mr.. crow
ther. of Manchester a famous collector
of rare books. asked him To republish an
old, seventeenth e injury volume, chh'u
"Essavs on Several Subjects, Written 10y
Sir Thomas Pope Bou'i;, London 1871.
The COPY which Mr.. Crowther had wa
so rare that he believed only two diners
were in exist nee: one in the British Mu-
scum. and the other in tNe bodlelah Ia
brarv. "A COPY" he wrote. rs OF price,
less value" ard he gave minute lnstruc-
tions as TO the care which must be taken
~ that which n. was sending InilhIis'
however. that Mr. Crowther might pe
,rie,aker rs 10 the exceeding scarcity Oh
the book. Mr.. Bryce advertised anu
orter the lapse of several weeks NJ re-
ceivel notice that one could be haa LOT
Is Co. When the volume came, ne hui-
ried TO compar, IL with that Z. MI;
Crowther. which he had in his si'e' anu
IN his delight. he found it equally per-
feet except that the contents-pages We're
wanting. on further examination ne ms
covered that there were duplicate contents
nages in Mr. Crowther's copy! So tha'
tho mistake made by the binder OF ,heSs
two volumes, in 1891. was now rect'ueu
nv the chance coming together OF the Two
once more-the copy In which the contents
nagss had been omitted and the copy III
which the missing pages had been piacfd'