AN "ARABIAN NIGHTS" STORY MATCHED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1676, 30 September 1887, Page 3

AN "ARABIAN NIGHTS" STORY MATCHED.

Giles Busby, a Toledo fishmonger, was cleaning a white-firh last Monday, and m the larger Intestines of the fi'h he xooi}d a diamond ring. The ring had engraved upon its inner Bnrface " J.A.8., Ohipago, "69." Busby forwarded the ring to the Ohitf of Police m this city. Yesterday Mrs Julia A. Lennox, of 12 Lennox place, identified and rec vered the ring, one tells an interesting Btory of Its loss. Ja 1809 she, as M<es Bennett, beosme engaged to Mr Lsulox, and he gave her this diamond riog, for which ho paid 450d01. Upon their bridal trip m 1871 Mrs Lennox lost th's ring ; while ■he was washing her hand m the tiolet room of the Pullman oar the ring slipped from her finger and dropped through the waste-pipe. As the train happened to be crossing tho bridge over the St Lawrence river, near Montreal, just«at the time, the bereaved bride had no hope if recovering her ring. There are no whitefiih m the St Lawrence ; the theory is that a small fish seizad upon the ring, and that at some futaie time this email fish, while crushing about the lakes, fell a prey to the 1 white fih m which the long lost ring was disi oveTed. Giles Busby , fc the Toledo fishmonger, received from 'M^Lennox'a cHtque sor lOOJoI for Ms^orießty. " V)