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Show TELL OF COMING DEATH. H Omens Implicitly Believed In by Old tJ English Families. 'H It Is not in superstitious lieUud or B iscotlanil onb that omens are sup- H IKised to wain an old lauilly of death. "" M Whenever two euorniou owls perch H together nu ouu or the liutllements ot M the house or Aiundel and Wardour M death Is at tlu door. Tho ancient M family ot Clifton of Clifton Hall, lu M Nottinghamshire, Is supiMised to be IH foiewarned of deMth by a, sturgeon M forcing Itseir up (he Itlver Trent. The H apparltinu of a Benedictine nun Is H said to warn the nnclont Yorkshire ' ' H Catholic rnmlly ot Mlddlcton of tho jH approach of death. Camden, in his M 'Magna HrltHnnla." lit spraklug of tho H antiquity and dignity of the Ilreroton H family, says: "This wonderful thing H respecting them 1h commonly believed M and I liavo lmurd it myself amrmod by H many, that for some days before tho H death of the heir of tho family tb H trunk of a tree has always been nsea H floating 'la thn laltfl adjoining tbrJr H niiislon."-Uinlon T. P.'s Weakly. , JH |
