The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-06-14
LOST AND FOUND STORIES.
Strange Ways in Which Some Missing
Things Were Recovered.


A governess in an English family
was one day walking in the Kitchen
garden with the two children under her
charge. In pulling at her hands as she
walked between them the children
l0osened a ring on her finger and it fell
off and disappeared. They all looked
for it long and carefully, but it could
not be found. The governess went
| home for her holiday a month later
and took with her basket of garden
vegetables as present for her mother
from the parents of her pupils. One of
the first things take out of the basket
was fine head of cabbage, with q
close green heart, among the curled
leaves of which was discovered the lost
ring.
A young woman took off her rings at
the bathroom washstand one night,
washed her hands with soap and some
oatmeal and went to bed. forgetting
her rings. The next morning one of
the rings was missing. She searched
everywhere for it, but without finding
| it. Two or three years afterward the
| wainscoting and fixtures of the bath
| room were torn away for the purpose
of putting in improvements, and in the
| wall was found the skeleton of a
mouse, with the lost ring around it's
neck. The mouse had evidently gone
to the washstand for the oatmeal, and
had accidentally run its head into the
ring, from which it could not afterward
free itself.
An English officer in India bought q
fine diamond from Sepoy, and had it
set in ring. Several years later, when
he was in London on leave, he missed
the diamond; it had fallen out of its
setting and was gone, he had no idea
where. He found it week afterward
| lying in one corner Of a partlydark
hallway at his club. Three years after
that he was again on leave, and was
shooting in Scotland. Having come
upon some grouse he was raising his
gun to shoot when he suddenly noticed
| that the diamond was again missing
| from his ring. AS he had tramped over
miles of moor that day the case seemed
| hopeless, and he gave the stone up as
| lost for good this time. Suddenly, for
| a reason that he could never give, he
| thought the diamond might be in his
gun, and having drawn the charge he
found the stone with the powder.
When q certain old house in West
| Philadelphia was torn down last year
| to make room for a new one the work
men found in one of the chimneys q
! skeleton cat with a skeleton rat in its
| mouth.
The writer of this article once had a
small pin set with pearls and a dla-
mond-all of which, unfortunately,
were quite small. One day, while wear
ing the pin in his scarf, he was walking
on the street, and as he stepped across
a cellar grating he felt something strike
the top of his foot, and looked down in
time to see the pin bound from his foot
across the grating to the tagging. 1t
had dropped from his scarf just when
he was over the grating, and if it had
! not struck his foot it would have gone
down through the grating and been
lost. Two years after that he lost the
pin in some way wholly unknown, and
had given up all search for it; he had
even forgotten it, when one day the
old negro gardener brought it to him
with particles of dirt clinging all over
it. The old man was putting the gar
den walks in order with spade and hoe,
and while at this work he found the
pin, where it had lain for about two
wears