Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1876 — Startling Prophecies. [ARTICLE]

Startling Prophecies.

Zadkiel’s Almanac, a singular London publication which has reached its fortysixth edition, makes some startling astrological prophecies for the present year. In one of the diagrams there is a direful array of contending armies, with a background of coffins; there is also a theater on fire, with a grisly skeleton brandishing a death like javelin and a flag somewhat resembling the stars and stripes. In another compartment there is a lion walking up a mountain on its hind legs, with a sword in its mouth. In January ultramontane intrigue is to be in the ascendant in England. A warlike disposition is to animate the Germans. The peace of England, Germany and Denmark is to be threatened. During February the same nations are to be in trouble, while Spain enjoys a temporary lull. March is to see the people of Ireland stirred up. April will be bad for Spain and Portugal. A conflagration will rage in London about the 12th or 19th of the month. May is to be pad for people born on or near the 28th. June is to be prosperous, but people born near the 27th February and Ist September must look out for their health. In July the Prince of Wales is to be lucky. On the 14th of that month marriageable young ladies will receive advantageous offers. August is to be a sad month for earthquakes and storms. France and Italy are to be “Shaken. September will threaten England with cause for grief. October promises peace for Spain. November, good fortune to the King of Italy. Mariners born near the 16th or 23d will be in danger from the sea. December threatens a conflagration in Dublin, but Spain is to be all right. Nothing about the United States, sq that people may keep their minds easy. “Zadkiel" has evidently forgotten us, and no news is good news.— Chicago Inter-Ocean. There is a strong flavor of common sense in the remark ot a Boston lady, who had successfully managed a large estate for many years, that, ‘*so long as the people of this country Continue to eat roast beef when they have only money enough to pay for salt mackerej,'they will have, and deserve to have, hat'd-times.-’ Lewiston, ike., has a religious society, one article of whose creed is never to call a doctor, but to heal the sick by prayer and laying on of hands. * They believe also in the gift of tongues as in apostolic days.