The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-14
DREAMS CAME TRUE
Eminent Scientist Tells of
Visions Realized.

Premonitory dreams are scoffed at by
the skeptic Of matters psychic, but new
ertheless some Of the visions of this kind
are related as the truth by men Of sci
ence and research. Camille Flammarion,
the noted astronomer, in his book 1.-THE
Unknown" tells the following:
During certain summer one of nv
sisters had gone with her husband and her
children to live In the little town of Mo-
gent (Haute Marne); my father had ac-
companied them, and my mother remained
In Paris. All the children were in good
heaItn, and no one felt any uneasiness in
regard to them. My mother dreamed that
she received letter from nv father IN
which she read this sentence: 7 am the
bearer OF sad piece Of news; little Henri
mas just died in commissions, with hardly
any previous Illness MY mother. on
awakening, said to herself: Tt is nothing
but a dream; 1t is all imagination and
deception A week afterwards a letter
from my father contained precisely this
very phrase My poor sister had tust lost
her youngest child in consequence OF con-
vulsions.
My oldest brother, Emile zippelius an
artist, died on September 16, 1865. TWEEN
ty-five years Of age; he was drowned
while bathing in the MoselIe. He lived in
Paris. but he was then visiting his par
ents at Pompey, near Nancy. My mother
had dreamed twice at wide intervals. that
this son would be drowned.
When the person charged to bear the
terrible news to his parents came to in
form 10 themI my mother, feeling sure that
ne came TO announce some misfortune,
first asked could 1t be anything about an
absent daughter, for whom she had had
no news for several days. When he fold
ner that it was nothing about her daugh-
q fall
what 1t is My son is drowned We had
letter from him that same day, so that
nothing could have led us to foresee such
a catastrophe.
my brother himself had said to his CON
cierge short time before: If any night
do not come home, go the next day to
the morgue and look for me. / have a
preSentiment that shall die in the water
my parents lived in the small town Of
Montigny-le- Roi (Haute- Marne). 1 had
begun my studies at Langres, and they
had decided to leave the country for the
capital, actuated, above ALL by the de-
sire to open to their children the most
secure and most promising career. A
fortnight before their departure my moth
er dreamed that she had arrived In Paris
and she had crossed to wide streets and
reached a canal across which there was
an elevated bridge. Some little time after
her actual arrival In Paris she went to
pay visit to one Of her relatives who
lived IN the Rue Fontaine- au-Roi, In the
Farbourg du Temple, and upon reaching
the canal, she was much surprised to rec
ognize the bridge, the quay, the whole
appearance of the neighborhood Of which
it was impossible that she could have
any knowledge, either by means Of pic
lures or in any other way.
This dream is very difficult to explain
1t would seem to prove that the mind is
able to see distance and during the
night, details which conform by day to the
image remaining in the brain This how
ever, Is hard to believe. Detroit News