The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-04
DREAMS AND DREAMERS.
EVERYBODY HAS HAD SOME
STRANGE EXPERIENCES.
Dreams and Auguries Have Played an
Important Part In the Lives or
Many Men and Womcn--A
Few Instances Given.

pany, "what tantalizing things they
are. l dreamed one night a few weeks
ago that saw a fiat roof covered with
small fat birds. They were not like
any birds l am ut all familiar with, be-
ing Of darx slate blue color with
close plumage like that OF a dove.
They covered every inch Of the space,
and my emotion at seeing them was
merely one Of surprise. But while /
was looking at them the scene chang
ed, and instead OF birds the roof was
covered with rats. related my dream
to my wife at the breakfast table and
she laughed and babe me consult a
dream book, saying that she had seen
one in the possession of the cook.
Sure enough, that evening we borrow
ed the 'Dreamer's Dictionary and
under the head of birds read: TO
dream you see many birds denotes
assemblies and suits at all Then we
turned to rats. and found this: Secret
and dangerous enemies
I'VE both laughed over the dream
book Interpretation. Secret and dan
gerous enemies every man may have,
but l had yet to see my first law
trouble, and not the shadow of any
legal cloud was forecast on my hori-
zon."
Here the speaker stopped and the
company looked at each other.
The man who was speaking was de-
PENDANT in one of the most important
law cases that had ever been known in
| Wayne county. 1t concerned an es-
tate which had belonged to his great
grandfather, and the PAPERS had been
served upon him just twenty -four hours
after his dream of the birds
but the rats?n chorused several
voices.
1T was secret and dangerous en-
envy who involved me in the law suit, "
answered the dreamer.
When L. S. Gl'ars was plain Mr..
Grant, and lived in Galena, H.. the
ladies Of that place gave a series of tea
parties. The Grants were compare
lively new peoole there and were in
vited TO all of them. Soon the invited
guests returned the compliment to
their entertainers. Mr.. Grant noticed
that his wife was much disturbed about
something at that time. and finally she
told her husband that she was worried
because she could not give n tea party
as her neighbors had done.
''But why not, my dear?" asked her
husband. who. man-likc, never thought
of household details.
II have no china tea-set,n answered
Mrs. Grant, "and could never think
of giving II tea party without nice
china"
A few days after the conversation
Mr.. Grant told his wife that she would
soon be able to give her tea party.
II dreamed last night. he said with
his usual grim humor, THAT we were
surrounded with the most beautiful
china dishes; they covered the whole
landscape as far as | could see, and
you stood in their midst admiring
them"
The very next day Grants order to
report at headquarters was received.
and Mrs. Grants fondness for china
soon had chance to be gratified. She
has possibly forgotten the circum-
stances, but the neighbor to whom
she related the incident has lively
remembrance of it. And, strangely
enough. dreaming of china is said to
betoken sudden rise in life and ex.
IRENE good fortune.
When Henry Ward Beecher was
| 1uin h. int.
tinuous laughter.
What is it. Mr.. Beecher?" asked
his wife as she bent over him.
'.Oh, oh, oh. l had such a funny
dream. saw such queer things. Ha
ha, ha; it makes me laugh to thinl
about it. Such funny dream"
$50
Both President Lincoln and Presiden
Garfield were dreamers. A few days be
fore his assassination. Garfield dreamed
that cur dog followed him every
where, leaping upon hirl and caressine
him.. He told his dream to Senato
Blaine, remarking that he could draw
good picture of the dog from memory
as 1t seemed moro life like than any rea
dog he ever saw. He had horror O
hydrophobia, and seemed to connec
the dog Of his dream with SOM
possible experience with dogs on tn,
street. A dream in which dog fawn
and caresses is always said to be a ba,
prognostication.
President Lincoln with all his Joke
and story telling. was inclined to b.
visionary and have sad forebodings
There is trick OF reproduction b.
which when the lights are placed II
certain positions the face Of a persoi
looking in mirror will be seen twice
or the shadow of one person will b
duplicated on the wall. 1t creates a
uneasy sensation for moment but
is one of the illusions OF the stock-in
trade of the conjuror. Mr.. Lincoln
waking from n nap. raised himself o.
the lounge and by the aid OF the bev
eled edge of the glass saw his own fac
overshadowed by its counterpart. II
said, in telling the circumstance, tina
one face was of deadly pallor. Thi
would also be accounted for by tn
opaque glass. In the light OF afte
} events that dream. as he believed 1t :
ha wound no cnnsidared nv the sinner