Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-16
MENTAL PREsClsE5E.

Many years ago there was lady who
had most intense dislike to cats, so much
so that were there one in the room when
she entered, she would be obliged to leave
Immediately, such an effect had it upon
her nervous system. On one occasion, she
was invited to dine with the narrator's fami-
ly in the country, but she declined, be.
cause she knew that there were cats ON the
premises ; but on the promise that the cats
shoald be strictly incarcerated she con-
sented to come, and the three cats belong.
irg to the house were duly shut up. Dur
ing the dinner she was seen to be very un-
comfortable, and to look very pale, and on
being asked the matter, she said that she
was sure there was cat in the room.
Assurances that this could not possibly be
the case were of no avail, and On search
being made, a cat was found actually siJ-
ting under her chair. She rose immediate
ly, and left the table; and passing down
the dinipg-room toward the door she also
passed across small cupboard door open
ing in the wall, through which the dinner
was served from the kitchen. As she passed
this the second cat of the establishment
jumped through into the dining.room.
A scream of horror burst from the poor
lady, and she was led away fainting in 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 outside the house. While
the poor lady was being attended to by aid
of scent. bottles and such like restoratives,
| the third of the cat 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 l was walking down the GEN.
ter of the Great Exhibition, carelessly
looking about me, was struck with sud.
den thought as to whether | should meet
a clergyman there with whom l had lived
some ten years before, and had not seen
for many years, and SO far as l remember,
had hardly thought of since. Pondering
| on SO strange turn to my thoughts, l
suddenly turned round and retraced my
steps and before had gone thirty yards
I met face to face the very gentleman whom
l had but just contemplated the possibility
of meeting.
Another and different sort of mental
! prescienoe occurred few years since. l
was dressing one morning. when l suddenly
| thought w nat became OF my Drotner
old signet.ring that used to wear? This
brother had died some thirty years before.
1 began to think over it but found had
lost sll recollection of its fate, and it passed
from my mind. About five or six days
afterward my niece came to stay with me.
She had come from my old home, some
twenty miles distant, where l had been
born, and she said she had brought over a
ring for me, as my sisters thought it must
belong to me, and that it had been found
by one of the gardeners in the mold in the
garden. And by inquiry l found that it
had been picked up on the very morning
that had thought of it when was dress
ing. Here, then, was the long lost ring,
and these various circumstances connecting
themselves together and l then remem-
bered that had lost the ring in that very
spot in the garden belonging to my old
home where it had been found and being
a signet.ring, and useful for sealing letters
with, had bought another to supply its
place. On referring to my old accounts,
further found that this newer signet-ring
had been purchased nearly twenty years
before, so that the lost ring had been lying
in the garden mold some twenty years be.
fore it was recovered in the vicinity Of
the spot where / had lost it, Chambers
Journal.