Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-30

Many years ago, there was a lady who haC | a most intense dislike to cats, so much SC that were there one in the room she would be | obliged to leave immediately, such effect 1 had it upon her nervous system. On one
 occasion she was invited to dine with the
 narrator's family in the country but she 1 declined, because she knew that there were | cats on the premises but on the promise 1 that the cats should be strictly incarcerated, she consented to come and the three cats belonging to the house were duly shut up. During the dinner, she was seen to be un- comfortable and to look very pale; and on
 being asked the matter, she said that she was sure there was a cat in the room. As surances that this could not possibly be the case were of no avail, and on search being made a cat was found actually sitting under her chair. She rose immediately, and left the table; and passing down the dining room towards the door, she also passed across a small cupboard door opening in the wall, through which the dinner was served direct ly from the kitchen. As she passed this the second cat of the establishment jumped through it into the dining room. 4 scream of horror burst from the poor lady, and she was led away fainting into the drawing room. The time of year was such that the window of the drawing-room was open, and it was so made that it reached nearly down to the floor and not much above the lawn
 
 being attended to by aid of scent-bottles and such-like restoratives, the third cat of the establishment jumped in at the window This was too much to be borne by such peculiarly constituted nervous system, and she begged to leave the house immediately.
 in 1851, as I was walking down the center of the great exhibition, carelessly looking about me, I was struck with sudden thought as to whether I should meet a clergyman who I ho1 m before, and had not seen for many years, and, far 1 could remember, had hardly thought of since. Pondering on so strange turn of my thoughts, I suddenly turned round and retraced my steps; but before l had gone thirty yards, l met face to face the very gentleman whom but just contemplat- cd the possibility of meeting.
 Another and different sort of mental pre- science occurred a few years since. was dressing one morning, when suddenly thought: What became of my brothers old signet ring that I used to wear ? (This broth CT had died some thirty years before.) be- gan to think over it but found I had lost all recollection of its fate, and it passed from my mind. About five or six days afterwards my niece came to stay with me. She had come from my old home, some twenty miles distant where I had been born, and she said she had brought over ring to me, and that 1t had been found by one of the garden CTS in the garden. And by inquiry found that it had been picked up on the very morning that had thought of it when was dressing. Here. then, was the long-lost ring, and these various circumstances connecting themselves together; and I then remembered that had lost the ring in that very spot in the garden belonging to my old home where it had been found and being signet ring and useful for sealing letters with, had bought another to supply It's place. On re- ferring to my old accounts I further found that this newer siSnet-ring had been pur- chased nearly twenty years before, so that the lost ring had been lying in the garden mould some twenty years before it was re- covered in the vicinity of the spot where l had lost it.