HOW A DREAM CAME TRUE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1869, 10 February 1892, Page 6

HOW A DREAM CAME TRUE.

Apropos of the revival of interest in ghost stories and the " uncanny " generally, it may be mentioned that Lady Dufferin in her 'Canadian Journal,' published the other day, gives particulars of a singular occurrence which happened within her own ken. A man-servant of Lord and Lady Dufferin's was, during their Excellencies' tour in the great North-West, dj owned at Mingan. They knew nothing about his people, and were unable to communicate the news of his death to them, so Lord'DufFerin ordered any letters that might arrive for the dead man to be brought to himself. "The first of these, which we have just received " (wrote Lady Dufferin at the time), "was from a servant girl he was attached to at Ottawa, and was dated exactly seven days after the day of the accident. In it she said : ' I have been in my new place a week, and I like it very much ; but I had such a dreadful dream on the day of my arrival. I dreamt that you and Nowell were upset in a boat together, and that Nowell was saved, but you were drowned.' " As the spot where the accident happened was an uninhabited region on the coast of Labrador, more than 500 miles distant from Ottawa, without either telegraphs or posts, it was impossible (as Lady Dufferin points out) that the girl could have had the news of her lover's death when her letter was written.— « Pall Mall Gazette. '|

The royalties from Moody and Sankey's famous ' Gospel Hymns ' have amounted to L 240,000, every penny of which has gone for charitable purposes. Always envy a fat woman when you see her laughing. There seems to be so much of her having a good time.