The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-10
LOST RING IS
 FOUND INSIDE
 GIANT HALIbUT

inside big halibut caught on the Georges Bank recently. The ring Is a mans size and is believed to have been dropped overheard from some transatlantic liner.
 Judging from its fine condition when recovered from the halibuts stomach by Moore, the ring had been lost recently. Moore will wear it, as there is no way of determining the l ownership.
 This ring is not the only one found in the stomach of voracious fish. By | far the most widely spread legend Of the sea-things' philanthropy is that which makes them the guardians Of lost treasures, and the vehicle of | their restoration to their proper | owners-the fish fsh-with-t -the-ring- | inside-it myth, every country in turn l has adopted from the original story l that was told on the banks of the Oxus to Ayan children ages ago. The salmon with a ring in it's
 mouth, that figures in the arms of
 the city of Glasgow, Scotland, which
 are also those of the ancient. see, is 1 said to record a miracle of St. Kenti- 1 germ, the founder of the see, and the | fourth bishop of Glasgow. A certain queen gave a soldier, with whom she 1 had fallen in love, a ring that had | been presented to her by her consort;
 but the king discovered the intrigue 1 and, having obtained the ring, threw ] it into the Clyde and then demanded 1 it of his disloyal lady.
 l In her alarm she sought help from
 St. Kentigern, and, he, proceeding to | the river, forthwith caught a salmon,
 which, on being opened, was found. to l have swallowed the all-important | jewel. The queen regained the good | graces of the king and lived a better | life afterward.
 The classical tale of Polycrates, re- | lated by Herodotus a thousand years before the time of St. Kentigern, is
 one of the earliest versions of the 1 fish and ring, which has been often
 repeated with variations.
 Another Famous Case.
 1 Another case of ring finding is re-
 lated of St. Atilan, bishop of Zamora
 who lived in the Tenth Century. He
 wanted to surrender his bishoprie
 and threw his episcopal ring into the
 Douro. But fish brought it back to
 him, and he concluded that he should
 continue to bear his burden.
 According to the Koran of Maho- , met, King Solomon recovered his
 throne by a fish restoring him the
 tailsman ring by virtue of which he
 held dominion over all the devils. Still more ancient is the recovery
 of Sakuntala's ring by a fish, which thus enabled King Dasyanta, to marry the lady of his love.
 From the fancy of the Aryan poe has descended an immense progeny : treasure-retriving fishes, and the ring of Sakuntala, like the magic circlet o the Persian story, has forgotten in numerabIe rings like itself
 : In the Arabian Nights is the wei : known tale of the priceless diamond : which the fisherman takes from 5 fish and which, placed on a shelf in cottage, gives so much light that they are saved all expenditure in oil, anG
 which, when sold, makes the family rich forever and forever.
 , In Scandinavian myths is that O, the long lost crown, which the fishe. kept down among the rocks till the l real heir to the throne came afiShing when they rolled it into his net; ir Russion, that of Ivan, who finds tht all-im mportant rings by the help O: the perch-the herrings try to Tiff the casket to the surface, but fail and so two dolphins came and pu ? their shoulders to the wheel and tn. ring is regained s Story of St. Peter. In the HOrIuSueSe IS one that tell
 us how St. Peters god daughter i 8 ordered by a malicious queen to div g into the sea and bring up a ring which she has purposely thrown int = the waves, but St. Peter restores to the little girl by making a fisl
 swallow it, which he caught for tn
 Kings table; in the Italian story o
 the white snake the three gratefu
 fish bring to the servant, in mus
 i sel shell, the ring that brings ever
 | one joy. Nor are these probably
 half of the fairy legends that have al
 grown out of Kalidasa's beautiful
 creation.
 > There are many legends parallel \ ing the Gospel story of Peters stor 2 of Peters finding the piece of none
 in the fsh's mouth.
 St. Benno, Bishop of Meissen, i l. Saxony, on June 16, 1106, left his SC d and went to Rome to avoid the per # secution of Emperor Henry ". an r ordered that the keys of his cathe h dra1 should be thrown into the SC d when Henry was excommunicatet e When he returned he found the key n in fish.
 St. Egwin, Bishop of Worceste l. on January II, 720, wanted to punis m himself for his worldly life when s, youth and put letters on his fee n throwing the key into the sea. o 10 his way back from Rome the ses Id men caught huge fish, in whose il S. ner parts was the key, which u II saint considered a sign that his pel P nance was abridged and therefore I al released himself.
 of A Few Modern Versions. en Coming down to our own tim ye while anchored off the Vesterma le Islands, in the North Atlantic Ocea ut Captain Christiansen of the Danis 10 Liner Laura which plies between c n- penhagen and Iceland, received 1e at ter of no particular importance fro IT. ] the acting sheriff of Vesterman, M in Hagaard.
 he Having read the note, Capta h. Christiansen, who was on the brid he of the vessel crumpled the letter .te and threw it overheard. In the fo d. lowing June, on reaching Reykjavi oh in Iceland, the captain, greatly to | Ia1 surprise, was handed by the consl IT, MT. Zimson, the identical lette he which had been found by a Fren
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