Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1874 — Curious Incidents. [ARTICLE]

Curious Incidents.

Correspondents of the Boston Transcript are relating instances of curious coincidences. We quote: “A gentleman dreamed about Commencement time of a college mate whom he never knew well or cared for especially, and had not seen or heard of or thought of for a decade Next day he saw him in Boston. He had lately returned from a protracted absence from the country. A lady dreamed of an old family servant who quit her house years ago, settled at a distance, and was as much segregated from her and a stranger to her thoughts as though inhabiting another sphere of existence. She called on her within twenty-four hours. —' : —, “ About a dozen years ago I met one day, on Washington street, as I thought, a citizen of a distant town with whom I had long before a slight acquaintance, but whom I had not seen or thought of for many years. As we passed each other I saw it was not he, but two blocks farther on I met the very man. Having had one similar experience before, this became the more strongly impressed upon my mind. About two years after I was walking one evening on Tremont street, on the sidewalk lately removed, and when near West street gate I was on the point of speaking to Mr. H., an intimate business acquaintance, but the gas light at that moment showed it was a stranger whom I had met instead of ■my friend. The other incident came to my mind, and I thought, ‘Would it not be a curious circumstance If I should meet Mr. H. during my w’alk?’ and, to my astonishment, I did meet and talk with him on that very sidewalk before I got to Park street corner.”