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| press tle cuDDaSc uOWll WIFI Il plate VIII
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under the vinegar.
SOME REMARKABLE DIR EAMS,
The Dreamer's Bible nnd other Hook,
| ON Dreaming.
At the French Lottery offices it used tc
be custom to keep a separate register OF
the lucky numbers which had been srg.
gested by dreams, they were so numerous
and so remarkable. Never did dav pass
without adding to the wonderful record,
and faith in dreams grew in consequence
even more rapidly than the list did in the
register. 1t was SO in England while the
lotteries existed. and is So abroad where
they still exist. Many strange stories OF
tins kind are told. Amongst remarkable
dreamers we have authors who, cOntinu-
ing the occupation of the day, have COM
posed through the night while asleep. In
this way Noltairc composed his verses to
Monsieur Touron. The most thoughtful
and eminent philosophers have regarded
the phenomena of dreams with the deep
est interest. Pliny said anisced placed
on the pillow, SO that the sleeper smelt it,
would prevent dreams from being dis
agreeable, while the seed of pycnocomen.
taken in doses of one drachm in wine.
produced nightmare. Among the ancients
dream-interpreting was regular trade,
and Artemidorus is credited with cxalting
it into science by the publication of his
five books Of Oneiy'OcrHica, first printed
in Greek at Venice i'll the v;;,-.. !,!-.!!-,. and
sometimes called The Drcahci'S Bibtc.
Galen tells of man who dreamed that
his left thigh had become stone, and who
soon after lost the use of it by Il dead pail
sy of another one OF his patients, who
dreamed that he was in a vessel full of
blood, which he accepted as n sign that
the man ought to be blel, by which means
n serious disease under which he labored
was cured. Breakfasting with some la
dies on November 25th, 1779, at his house
i'll Hill street, London, Thomas Lord Lyt-
tletun spoke of very curious dream he
had dreamt in the night. In this dream
bird flew into n room where he was, and
while he looked at it it changed into n fe-
male, who told him to prepare for anoth-
er world, as in three days he would die.
He was then WELL and, as he laughingly
said, did not look like man sonear death.
On the Saturday also he told the same
ladies' that he felt perfectly we'll and be-
lieved he should "bilk the ghost" Some
hours afterwards he went with Mr.. For
tescue and Captain Wolslev to Pitt Place,
Epson, ate for supperan egg, went cheer
fully and talkatively to bed, hoped he
should have good rolls for breakfast, and
suddenly expired while Stuckey, his SER
want, was assisting linn to remove his I'M
der waistcoat
Dlutnrnl ranorl, thnt l.,;,., -,
bed with his wife Cnlpurnia, when the
Ides of March had come, but, alas, were
not yet gone, was much disturbed by the
groans she uttered in her Sleep, and
and awoke her. Shen then told him that
she had dreamt of holding him, murder
ed, in her arms. On the following day,
so deeply was this dream impressed upon
her mind, and SO lgreat the terror it occa-
stoned, that she implored him to remain
at home that day and adjourn the meet
ing of the Senate. He was startled and
knowing her to be q woman of strong
mind, and i'll nowise superstltious, he OF
fered sacrifices and consulted the divn-
ers, by whom he was advised to adjourn
the Senate, and would have done so had
lie not been persuaded to the contrary by
one of the conspirators against his life,
who laughed at the dream and the divin-
ers, and warned Caesar against giving
oiiense to the Senate, just when they were
prepared to crown his most ambitious de-
sires. Imperial Caesar listened, and went
out with him to meet his death.
AT the battle Of Philippi, although Alt-
gustus being unwell had determined not
to leave his tent, dream urging him to
quit it he did so. and thereby his life was
saved, for an attack OF the enemy result
ed Ill its capture and destruction. At an
other time, after visiting Il temple near
the Capitol which he had dedicated to
Jupiter Tonans, he dreamt that Jupiter
Capitolinus came to him complaining that
the new temple had taken away his wor-
shippers to which he replied no, he had
but given him n porter at his gate. To
carry out this idea bells We're hung round
the summit of the new temple, such ms
were usually found at the gates of great
houses. In consequences Of another dream
Augustus, on II certain day in the year,
always begged aims of the people in the
attitude OF mendicant-head bent, hand
outstfetched.
In "Some Passages of the Life and
Death of the Right Hon. John Earl of
Rochester, who died July 26, 1850, we
iChi HOW lhls lOTu tOlu tne writer tllut
the chaplain of his mother-in-law, Lady
Warre. dreamt that he would die on a GER
tain day. The idea was ridiculed by the
family, and he had almost forgotten it,
when one evening at supper it was lis
covered that there were thirteen ut table,
which, according to /, fond conceit''-in
other words, foolish one-indicated the
death of one of them. and young lady
poir ted out the chaplain as that one-pro-
badly in fun. This recalled the dream,
and the chaplain was at once thrown into
n state of agitation. He expressed his
belief that before the morning he must
die ; but being then in excellent health,
no one needed his words. On the follow
ing morning he was found dead in his
bed.
About three hundred years ago the
town of Swaffham, had, amongst its in
habitants, an industrious Woodworking
tinker, named John Chapman. One night
the tinker dreamed that if he went to
London and stood on London Bridge he
would there meet some one who would
make his fortune and put an end to all
his weary wanderings over hill and dale
in search of work. Despite the remon-
STRANGE of his friends, the tinker set out