Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-25

Al the French lotsery ofi,ss i. need .
os cn' % ks-p ssptr ,ts registe
OF the lackv numbers which h4d bee
suggested by dreams. tnsY ~er- 20 M
tDer''us and 50 remarkable. Never d !,
Day pas TIthout adding ~ the Won
dertui record, aud faith in dreams gre,
~ oonsrql=nce even En1re r4pi iIg t1a-
the lit dad Ia the register. Il was sa i
England while tue iptterles exisr ed, an
20 abroad where they co Iiinus To ex
lst- Many strange stories of this kins
are told.
Am ing remarkable dreanars we hav
authors, VINO, continuing the occupation
OF the DIV, have cDnpo-ed throu ID th,
night While asleep. In this Hs .nne
Volt Ire composed his verses 90 Monsieu
fo1son.
fhe most thol h'fnl and eminent phil
osopbrrz have rez=rd q the pa~noru-n
Of DIRE sms with the d epesE interest
Lord Byron, repeating "a idea as a2eS
As hern-lit1s, says:
"OGr life is t~o-fold; sleep hath its osr
world"
Herrick also wrote, long before By.
ron:
Here We are ali BY day; by night W.
are hurfd
BY dreams esca one IN sev'ral world.
And strange indeed saoh worlds are
worlds IN wnlch tune aud space have no
laws, and everything that Is natural and
real seems 10 blend with everything fan
ciful aud unreal without for an instant
appearing improb able or extraordinary.
In a dream the coward IL brave. the
foolish wise, aud the defeat d triumph
Ant; the little are great, ths blind see,
the lame Salk, tie ioyoas are sad, the
sad joyous, the prosperous fail and the
weak are strong. We see without eyes
an "A dream, speak without a tongue,
hear without ears, walk without legs,
a h4ndie without hands. Events which
would drmsnd years tor their occurrence
pass Ia the fraction of a second, aud vet
seem To the sleeper as real and orderly
Ia their progression as the events of his
waking hours. And, though so strangely
separated. tae waking worlds and those
of sleep are intimately united, and the
iufiuence of one upon the other is too
paipsbie TO be missed.
Amsng the most remarkable dreams
on record the following will always have
their places:
DREAM OF THOMAS, LORD LYTTLEroS.
Breakfastine with some ladies on We'd
nesdsy, Nov. 25sh, l779, at his house in
Hill street, London. Thomas Lord Lyt-
tleton spoke of a very curious dream he
had dreamed In toe night. In this
dream bird q W into the room where
he Was, and, While he looked At IL,
changed iato female, who told him to
prepare for another world, as in three
days he would die. He was then well,
and, as he laughingly said, did not look
like a Ban so near death. On the Sat
urday, also, he told the same ladies that
he felt perfectly we'll. aud believed he
should :" blk tue ghost"
Sous hours afterward he went with
Mr. Fortsacue and Captain Wolseley TO
PIT. Pace, Z - I'm ate for sapoer an egg,
went ertuily aud talkatlvely to bsd,
b ,ped he sh ,uIi have good rolls for
breakfast. aud suddenly expired, while
S.uckley, his servant, WAS assisting him
to remove his under waIstcoat. This
story has been told ia various ways.
rhe aouve acseuut Is gwen by Lord
DREAM OF ARcHBlsHoP ABBoT's MOTHER.
john Aubrey tells that a poor cloth
xorker's wife living VI Gllfori, ma med
Abbot, dreamed that il sue would eat a
tek her sou, Who was about TO bs born,
would gtow up and become n great man.
h ,rly next morntnS sue went To the river
tor wat-r aud caught in her pail 4 tiue
itck, wnlch she cooked aud ate--a.i 81
ueariy all. The chiGd was barn. grew
up. bsea.ue .cam .r in the town, aud
finally Became Archbishop of Canter
oury--of course, through his mother
q e.liag the fish, or 50 thought John Al
brey, 4. X. >.
A TrSKER's DRKAM.
Vouched for by tradition and history.
the strange dreA Ct the SSth nain
tinker has 4 fair claim To rank with ths
gand. Fful dreams to which tnese pages
are dvvJlvd. Tue story Of It runs al
follow:
A.out three hundred or more year.
AGO the abuvs ramet ancient town IN
Sorf Tx. rem ,rk able uf old tor its he ,ish'
,ness aud beauty, had among It's inh ,b-
II ,nts AN IN iustriou+, b ud working TIN
ker named john Cnap nan, tradition all,
: nd TO nave teen the benencent builder
Il the nortn aisle of Sgth hsm church
Certain Is is III II III that north aisle are
various devices of peddler and his dog
and of a s1opkee. or or chapman. whiol
seems like n rebus upon the trsditioua
ma ne, a species of concelt prev alent IL
ancient times. Certain, als,, Is II thai
Ia r462 the name of one of the Churet
wardsns was Chapman, az d that IN each
of the original windows OF this aisle was
a n,iatsr OF the tinker, his wife and
shree children. .,
One nigh, the tinker dreamed that II
he we1s to London and stood on Lon
dom Bird 70, ne xolld there meet some
one who would make his fortune and
put an end 90 ali his weary wanderings
over hill and dale IN search OF work
Deeply Impressed by tnis dream, ht
spoke of it IN tue morning To ms vie
40 seriously, and with such an evidenl
belief in 10, that she both scoided ano
Laughed AT what she called his folly
Strangely enough. as sbe tinker though
the dream, whicn had haunted his mIad
Ali day. was repeated ON ths nsxt night
and the impression, thus deepsned and
strengthened. nos unnatnraliy brough'
a third repetition of il on the night FOL
;,si o. after which John Was no longel
wlthheld fram gosnx TO Lsndoa.
Desuise the remonstrances OF hi'
fr,,.hst=- the eutreaIies of his wife and
,he ridiculs of his neigAoors. ths nnkei
sat ont to travel all the way afoos, {
,listauea of MT less than ninety miles
Al the close of the tairi day he rescnrs
the eud Of his journey. slept Al an inn
and ssrls In the morniug station ii hifn
salf on l. ,nd ln B.id2e AZ a spot wnief
he rs,ue4bs r-d was tnAt painscd out V
him In his dseam. And taore No re
maiued ali day. eyed eurioosiy oy tn'
n,sSsrs. by and sasplcionsly by tue saop
fa~uars who lived on ths bridge. and D!
the keepers OF ITS gates. whicn CLOSED 4
a certain regular boar u guard tae CIV.
s,,m evil co sracters, Of Shtca the Ank
ale and other parts of SsatnwsrS ha'
h.a a lars~r saars IN IN was ge5d 10
,hs,r r.uatntifn. Nothing. nosev~r
A said TO him that aplsssred IN an
So 4. b. contested with his dream
The exp-ram sng was rcpe sfed on IN
s.c.,nd d,y, with 40 other result taai
a., N lns@uafyiug sue curiosity an
susx icioa xhicn he had provoked On 20
fFst dsy, fsat @ftrr he had p ssssd
,hir.l kiav on tue bridge. and the evenlnl
| sloorn. wniea wsrnsd him Of the oiosaa
/ s.,s.s- vas again upun him, one OF 70
| shouke~yssss, wno had JED his1 sosadsi
,nviy on each pr-visas oocasioii. vef
| lard 60 ask him wast possiois rrssso
/ "a ~. far ax4nilag kAere ever