Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1890 — Saved by a Presentiment. [ARTICLE]

Saved by a Presentiment.

Buston Times. However the matter-of-fact may scoff at the idea, there are such things as presentiments. Not long ago a Boston man received a large sum of 1 money as treasurer of an organization tooflate to deposit, so he took it home with him to his suburban residence. It! worried him, this money, in a way he! could not understand. He kept think-; ing, “Am I going to lose this money' which does not belong to meP” So! strong was this feeling that he could : not go to sleep. Yet he was ashamed of himself. Saying nothing to his wife i he got up, took the money from hit. coat pocket, put it in his stocking, and threw it under the bed. In the morning his wife said to him in a joking way: “I wonder in what condition you were in when you went to bed last night? There’s your coat oh the floor, your vest out in the hall and your trousers are across the doorsill." Being a man ol steady habits, it did took suspicious. It did not take him long to discover that burglars had been through the house, and his money and watch taken. But the stocking under tho bed was safe. Chinese Army Reform. Norristown,Herald. Chinese officers draw pay according to the number of men sorving under) them. From time immemorial every, officer has bqen permitted to lio to the .number of ten men. but a month agothe young emperor issued a decree that this must be stopped and that the liars must tell the truth. The downfall, of the empire is predicted through-, out tbs army.