A Ghost StoryThere are certain beliefs as old as the world, that have encountered more or less scepticism in all ages, and nevertheless endure to-day,—beliefs based upon observations so excellently authenticated, and so strongly interresembling, whether made before Christ or in the present age of rail-roads and electricity, that the admission of their testimony in the great trial which metaphysical theories are undergoing in the court of Common Sense, cannot be refused. We refer especially to the belief in warnings,—premonitions of death,—wraiths,—doubles,—all those singular superstitions connected with sudden decease, all those apparitions of inexplicable voices by which people at vast distances from home are weirdly informed of the loss of friends, or relatives, to whom they are particul
