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 SINGULAR DREAM vERGFtEp.-When the plague was at it's height a, Alexandria. . Mahomeian merchant dreamed that eleven persons would die of the plague tn his house. When he awOke he remembered the dream, and there being exactly eleven persons in his house. himself included, he became very uneasy. His alarm increased. when on the following day the wife, two female slaves. and three children died, but he became quite certain that his death was at hand when. on the fourth, his two remaining children, a woman servant, and an old man servant sunk into the grave. He accordingly made his preparations to pass into cterniiy-fe- lated his dream to some of his friends, and begged them to make inquiry every morn ings and m case he should be dead, tn have hin buried with the usual solemnisies. 4 cunning thief, who had heard the circum- stance took advantage of the merchants fright, 10 open his door in the night. and when the terrified man cried out .Who's there:n to answer, 1l am the angel of Dealh,' Tn order, while the merchant concealed him. self underneath the besl clothes and was quite beside himself. to pack up what effects he found in the house and carry them away. Unluckily for him he was seized with the plague and died On the stairs, The mer- chant however did not venture for many hours to put his head from under the bed clothes. till at length his friends came, ,heard from him what had happened, found the effects. recognized the thief, discovered the truth and confirmed the strange accomplish ment of the dream.