SOME CURIOUS WEDDING RINGS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1696, 27 October 1887, Page 3

SOME CURIOUS WEDDING RINGS

la speaking of wedding rings, we learn (»aya the " New York Jewellery News ") that these important symbols have not' always been manufactured from the precious metal pold. We are tod that m lien of a ring the church key has often been need ; and Wallpole tella of an instance where a curtain ringwas employed. The Duke of Hamilton foil bo violently m love with the younger of the celebtated Misses Gunning, at a party m Lord Chesterfield's hou«o, that two da>s after he sent for a parson to perform the marriage ceremony ; but as the Duko had neither license nor ring, the clergyman refused to act. Nothing daunted, Hamilton declared he " would Bend for the archbishop." At laat they were married with a ring of the bed curtain, at halfpast 12 at night, at May fair Ohapel. Forgetful bridegrooms have been reduced to greater straits than thia even ; io one instance a leather ring had, on the epur of the moment, to be cat cut of a piece of kid from the bride's glove. A tragio story of a forgotten wedding ring is told m the "Lives vi the Llndeeyß." When he should have been at Church, Colin Ltndßey, the young e»rl of Balcarreß, was quietly eating his breakfast m nightgown and slippers ; when reminded that Mauritia of JSaerau was waiting for him at the altar, he hurried of to church, but forgot the ring ; a friend present gave him one, which he without looking at placed on the bride's finger. After the ceremony was over, the conntess glanced at her hand and beheld a grinning | death's head on htr ring. She fainted away, and the omen made such an impression on her, that on recovering she , declared that she was destined to die within & year ; a presentiment that probably brought about ita own fulfilment, for m a few months the oarelesß Colin was a widower.