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Show ",, , Parnell an Acute Observer. ' , Miss Charlotto McCarthy, daughter ' 1 of Justin McCarthy, tells a curious , j story of Charles Stowart Parnell. "Ono s I ovonlng," says she, "Parnell was talk- , ' lng to mo at tho coffee stago of din- nor, and I, gazing at him with rapture, was vaguely stirring mine and going . to drink It when ho Bald: 'You must ' j not drink that; you havo stirred It j tho wrong way and It would bo un- ' lucky. Get another cup.' What struck 1 ', mo as strange in this was not his be ing superstitious ovory ono who know him at all know that but his ! extraordinary power of observation." |