INTERESTING EXTRACTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1439, 23 December 1886, Page 3

INTERESTING EXTRACTS

THE APPARITION. ThePsyhioal Society (writes the Bond -n ooc of the Press) Me to the for« again* They appear to have establlshac* the fact of some appearance <’r impress ot —call it what you will —happening t ■ pe-aons far away from relatives or friend* ,vh > are on point of death. The following is a case in point. A lady, wh-’ is aitting at my elbow as I wri 1 e these words, was two or three weeks ago staying in Ostend in company with another lady friend In the middle of a crowd upon the Esplanade one day her friend suddenly exclaimed, “ There’s my ousin —at the ssrae moment disengaging herself from the other’s arm and rushing into the crowd, almost losing herself in her vain endeavors to reach this cousin. The next ma ; l from Engltnd brought the account of that cousin's disease, the time of death exactly answering to this “appearance’’ at Vistead.

titled eccentricity. The deith <>f the Marqiis of Aiieab«r< raiabs to the oeerage one of, porhap . th>moat ext< aordinary »prcuii‘ , ns of h«re'.'itary rank that even rtceat daja have (writ London cnrre«pondent of he Liverpool Post). Li rJ Savernaka, whc now tho Marquis of Ailesbory dis'inguished himself e few years ago by c instantly appearing in public as a coster monger. Ho wore tho stiff cloth, cutaway flash coat, with rather large p arl buttons ; the tight c rdnr< y breeches, with bel> bot otns ; the gaudy gypsy Decker chief, and the small peaked cap in which the weK-xnown London character dispute# and he also drove a smail'cart •. f the cos type. Among his other idiosyncrasies w B hia marriage, when ha selected as 'ho future marobioouss one of he 1 on* ladies whom Mr John Ho lUigshi d n- 4 to produce in the burlesques oi the Gao? y Theatre.