SOME CURIOUS WEDDING RINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 279, 26 November 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

SOME CURIOUS WEDDING RINGS.

These symbols have n6b always been manufactured from the precious metal gold. Wβ are told that in lieu of a ring the churcli key has often been used ; and Walpole tells of an instance where a curtain ring was employed. The Duke of Hamilton fell bo violently in love with the younger of the celebrated Misses Gunning, at a party in Lord Chesterfield's house, that two days after he sent for a parson to perform the marriage ceremony; but as the duke t had neither license nor ring the clergyman refused to act. Nothing daunted, Hamilton declared he " would send for the Archbishop." At last they were married with a ring of the bed curtain, at half past twelve at night, at Mayfair Chapel. Forgetful bridegrooms have been reduced to greater straits than this even j in one instance a leather ring had, on the spur of the moment, to be cut out of a piece of kid, from the bride's glove. A tr&gia story of a forgotten wedding ring is told in the ". Lives of the Lindseys." . When he should have been at church, Goliff Lindeey, the young Earl of Balcarres, was quietly eating hie breakfast in nightgown and slippers; when reminded tbab Mauritia of Nassau was waiting -for him at the altar, he hurried to church j bub pforgdt 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 Countess glanced at her hand and beheld a grinning death's head on her ring. She fainted away, and the omen made such an impression on her that on recovering she declared that she wgi destined tp,die withi in a year; a presentiment that probably brought about its own fulfilment, for in a few months the careless Colin was a

widower.