The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-16

men, you know, will catch at straws. As
it has turned out, cannot doubt that it
was all arranged, in some incomprehensi.
bic way. by an overruling Providence so
that we might be saved.''
Il got the impression that the bark I
saw in my dream was going to rescue
US" said the passenger ''but how that
thing here on board seems to me quite
familiar; yet am very sure that 1 was
never in your vessel before. 1t is all a
puzzle to me-
A MESSAGE FROM WIFE.
Jung Shilling, in his "Theorie der
Geisterkunde, tells of remarkable sto.
ry that was told by German who had
migrated to the United States, and had
been for many years manager of some
mills on the Delaware. The events are
said to have occurred between 1850 and
l760. There lived at that time near
Philadelphia, lonely and retired, be.
nevolent and pious man, who was suspec-
ted of having some occulent power of
disclosing hidden events. A sea captain
had heen long absent, and no letter had
been received from him. Having heard
her story, he babe her wait little and
he would bring her an answer. There
upon he went into another room, shutting
the door; and there stayed so long that,
moved by curiosity, she looked through
an aperture in the door to ascertain what
he. was about. Seeing him lying motion
less on sofa, she quickly returned
to her place. Soon he came out
and toll the wom:n that her
husband was at that time in London, in a
certain coffee house, which he named,
and that he would soon return. He also
stated the reasons why his return had
been delayed, and why be had not writ.
ten to her; and she went home somewhat
treasured. When her husband did re-
turn, they found, on comparing notes,
that everything she had been told was
strictly true. But the strangest part of
the story remains. When she took her
husband to see the seer, he started back
in surprise, and afterward told his wife
that on certain day (the same on which
the had consulted the secr) he was in a
coffee house in London (the same that
had been named to her), and that this
very man had accosted him, and had
told him that his wife was in great anx-
iety about him; that then the sea captain
had replied, informing the stranger why
his return had been delayed and why he
had not written, whereupon the man
turned away, and he lost sig hit Of him in
the crowd.
There are cases on record in which al
abb, satisfactorily proved, yet conflicting
with seeming unimpeachable evidence,
has puzzled the courts. Catharine Grove,
in ''Night Side Of Nature" relates and
vcuches for the authenticity of the fol.
lowing wonderful story:
MURDER.
In the latter part Of the last century, in
the city of Glasgow, Scotland, a servant
girl, known to have been improperly init
mate with certain surgeons apprentice,
suddenly disappeared. There being no
circumstances to lead to the suspicion OF
foul play, no special inquiry was made
about her. In those days, in Scottish
towns, no one was allowed to show him.
self in either street or public ground du-
ring the hours of church service and this
Introduction was enforced by the appoint
ment OF inspectors, authorisedl to take
down the names Of delinquents. Two of
these. making their rounds, came to a
walk, the lower boundary of s'The Green
as the chief public park of the city is
called. There, lying on the grass, they
saw young man, whom they recognized
as the surgeons assistant. They asked
him why he was not at church, and pro.
cecded to register his name; but instead
Of attempting an excuse, he merely arose,
saying, II am miserable man; look in
the water!' Then he crossed a stile and
struck path leading to the Rutherglen
road. The inspectors. astonished, went
to the river, and there found the body oil
a young woman, which they caused to
be conveyed to town. While they were
accompanying it through the streets,
they passed one of the PRINCIPAL churches,
whence, at that moment, the congrega'
ton were issuing, and among them they
saw the apprentice. But this did not
surprise them, thinking he might have
had time to go round AMI enter the
church toward the close of the service
The body proved to be that Of the
missing servant girl. The apprentice
was arrested, and must, on the testimony
of the inspectors, have been found guilty
had he not on his trial established al
incontrovertible alibi, showing beyond
possible doubt that he had been in church
during the entire service. The young
man was acquitted.
TEA A POISON.
The journal Of chemistry asserts tina,
Tea is not the simple harmless beverage
that it is generally supposed to be; but
that its effects, in their character, may
rightly claim to be classcd with those Of