ON DREAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 321, 15 May 1878, Page 4

ON DREAMS.

(By Snyder.') In answer to a fair < enquirer I may mention that dreams very frequently turn out true. Many instances have come under my own personal knowledge that such is the case. I can, upon affirmation, duly sworn before any Justice of the Pence, and legally attested, declare to the correctness of the following ; To dream af a newly-formed footpath in front of your door is a sure sign you will become a Borough Councillor. To dream of malt indicates tuat some day you will bo a Mayor. You will also become a Mayor if you dream of being a donkey. To dream that yon have been lucky it is certain that you will sell some vciy poor articles at double its value and so have swindled some one. To dream of a true fnendps an in- - dication that some one will obtain a loan of money from you and thou run away without paying. To dream of butter is bad. Some one will compliment you on your personal appearance and immediately ask for the loan of three half h(P will never pay back. To dream ohboing a bankrupt is a good onion. Yon will probably be allowed two and. sixpence kmythe pound upon your own promissory ’ndtes at nine, eighteen and twentyfour months months. Directly yon have signed the bills you can sat up a fine house and keep a man cook. It is not well to r dream of crockery. This dream is generally followed by your wife throwing a milk jug at your ' head, > , To dream of fire is a sign that your premises will be burnt fldown,, but not * until your property has been insured for twice its value. It is a“vcry bad sign indeed to dream that yon do everything for love. It is probable you will fjturn great scoundrel. To dream of a Fancy Bazaar is a sign that you have given one pound one loi what cost two-and-throe. It it ominous to dream of vegetables. "When you walk in your garden the next morning you will find ail your best pamp- '* kins and marrows have been walked off with. It is not well to dream of five shillings, as you are likely to be run in some night by a policeman und fined in precisely that amount for being drunk and incapable. It is bad, likewise, to dream of an angry crowd of people. It indicates that} you are about to call a meeting of your .creditors.To dream of race noises is a bad or good sign us the case may be. It means that some one will shortly run away' with your wife, at which you may feci very angry, but, it is more probable, you will feel delighted. To dream of newspapers is to read something told you as a fact which you will find to turn aut a fib. To dream that you fell over a doorhnat upon coming home at two iuj the morn-' ing is a sign that—l really forget now at this instant what it is a sign of. To dream of sweet William is a sign that your future husband is doing a Bill. ■ & MADAM DeMURSKA’S MENAGERIE. Tuk Virginia Chronicle (Nevada) thus enlightens us in reference to the latest movements of'the erratic songstress who created such a transient furore in New Zealand while itlasted. A noticeable peculiarity of theatrical people is a passion for pets. Patti is constantly surrounded with dogs, Clara Morris has a weakness for cats, and Madame Modjeska is disconsolate without her canary bird. lima. Do Mnrska is zio exception to tho rule. Latt evening a Chronicle reporter called upon her it the International Hotel, wishing to explode the story of the singing mouse. The reporter explained his bvuincss immediately. “ Madame, have yoi a singing mouse in your possession ?” The lady wont at once to the window and product! a little wire cage, in which ho vocalising rodent nestled in a bod :>f cotton batting. “ Docshcsing?” “Certainly.” “Have the goodness to start him.” The cantatrico tripped up ml down the scale a few times with the lasc and rapidity of a schoolboy running his thumb nail along the edge of a fine tooth comb. This caused the inouselto wriggle install slightly and stretch 1 his hind legs spasmodically, but he! did not encore. The perverse animal was then replaced V on the window-sill, withjthe assurance on \the part of the owner tljat he was liable Vj warble at any tiiiu. The reporter . thpa had an opportunity, 0 f examining samples of history scattered about the apartaE, t- j u two largo.wicker cages were a'; COU pi e 0 f Austrian magpies, which \. g p muc [ e their p-e*cnee ielt by running *^p. pqjg into tin of the reporter’s 1^ i HI%7cl,^aad'vvals 1 %7c l,^aad' vvals h-s of -- \ IVbnn Ibo prlllia * f cramU * "Mho scale they imCq. hei exactly. V) ll0) however, with aIY sense of begiu a fami] & melody, then sudtenly come to a full stop, ami emit a sL ech that made one’s pulse jump to ICsY beats a minute. Presently a Scotch p\pdle crawled out from uncler the sofa ank c li mbod iato the r porter s lap He was fi, mediately foloweu y a S, v ye terrier 'with cropped cars, and a little hairy spauiot, « Where is your ;i bull-d o g ? ’enquired K,c reporter. Getting doctored m San XYancisco. \ He w ifi be up m a week. You, should \

see him—he is perfectly divine.” “You lie !” This somewhat blunt remark come from a poll-parrot in a cage on the rnantlepicce. Madame De Murska remarked that she bad purchased the bird in San Francisco, and at times it was insulting. Here the bird gave the reporter a touch of las early training by blaspheming in a most horrible manner, while its mistress shook the cage and flapped a towel at it. The bird went into a fury of passion and threw’ off a shower of profane expletives that would have reflected credit on a 16-nmle quartz teamster. A glass of water soucod over it finally brought the wicked bird to its senses. The Madame apologised for the bird’s conduct, and then trotted out the mouse again. This time the animal was in better trim, and, in response to a little chuckling on the part of its mistress, chirruped and chatted like a bird for half a minute. That the mouse could sing there was no mistake, but ho was by no means as accomplished a performer* as either of the magpies, and his voice lacked compass as well as volume. The Madame assured the reporter that she hadn’t half her collection with her ; most of it was in San Francisco, and before she left she expected to get a rat dog from Jack Magee, and a young bear from Tom Bean. As the reporter left the dogs barked, the magpies screeched like crosscut saws, and the parrot told him to “take a spin around the block,”