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Show Morlf.nf tWdJIti- Kings. Art. I sew (. lora In aiwaklng of wedding rings, we Itatn that these lrnltaut aiutula hate not l)i bleu mauulaetured flout the ricioua metal, gold. We are told lhat In lieu of a ring Ihu churih key has often been used; and Walpole tells of an Instance where a cuilalu ring waa employed. The Duke of Hamilton full so violently lu III love with lhe)cuuger of Ibecelc-I Ibecelc-I rated Mls-ts Uunulng at a patty In !ord Cheiterlleltl's house lhat two doya arier he sent for a pirsun lo ;r-term ;r-term Ihe marriage ceremony; but as tho Duke had in lilitr lkensu mi ring, the tlergyman refused to act. Noth-Ing Noth-Ing daunted, Ilanilllon diclared "he would aend for Ihe Archbishop. Al last they were married with a ring of the bid curtain at 1J.30 ut tile li t at Msyfnlr Chl." rorgttful bn. o gnouia have bttn reduoed tuutLbtr straits than this even; lu one lustanie a leather rlughad on Iheepurtof Ihe liniment tole tut out of a lece nt kid from tho I rl le's gloee, A Iraglo story of a forgollen winldlug ring la lot I lu Ihe "Llvis of thu Liudss)s." He should have l-een at church when Colin Llndtay, Hiejoung Lailor Hal-carras, Hal-carras, was quietly eating his hrcskiast In night gown and sll; peri. ItemlndeU lhat Maurllla of Na-siu was walling for him at Hie altar, he hurried to church, but forgot the line: a frltnd I resent gate. him one, which he, with, out looking ol, plattl on Ihe brllc'a finger. Alter Ihe ceremony was over the ci unless glanced at her hand out! la-held a grinning dtath's heat on her ring. She fainted away, and the omen mate such an impression on her that on recovering abe declared she was ilesllinil to die within a year; oiit-. sentruent that probably I rought about ita ow n fulfillment, for In a lew months the cart less Colin waaa widower. |