Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-02-09
From the New York Herald.
Predictions for this Year.

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Predictions for this Year.
| According to new Almanac. the year
OF our Lord, $40, ia to be an even,ful one.
We extract from said Almanac the follow.
iag aagacious, Predictions which doubtless
! be fulfilled:
Through the whole course Of the com.
! ing wear whenever tho moon wanes tho
nigh. will grow dark.
On several occasions. during the year.
the sun will rise before certain people dis.
cover it, and set before they have finished
their days work.
1t is quite likely that when there is no
/ business doing many will be heard to com.
! plain of hard times, bu, i, is equally GER
tain tina, all who hang themselves will es-
) cape starvation.
Ii busiles and hoops go out Of fashion.
church pew will hold more than three
/ ladies'.
! If dandies wear their boards. there will
be less work for the BARRIERS; and he who
wears mustachioes will have something to
sneeze at.
| There will be many eclipses of virtue,
some visible, others invisible.
whatsoever is in love will think his mis-.
,rcss a perfect angel, and will only find
out the truth Of his suspicion by getting
married.
Many delicate ladies. whom no ono
would suspect, will be kissed without tel
ling their Mas.
There will bc mosc books published
than will find purchasers, more bills made
than will find payers.
If the incumbent Of Fat Office should
die, there will be dozen feet ready TO-
step into one pair Of shoes.
fla young lady should happen to blush,
she will be ap, TO look red in the face. with
) out the use Of paint; if she dream OF
Young man three nights in succession, II
will be sign Of something; If she dream
Of him four times. or have the tooth ache,
, i. is ten TO one she viii be long time IN
getting either of them out Of her head.
Many people viii drink more strong
liquor than will be necessary TO keep
, them sober, and take more medicine than
viii be requisite to the enjoyment Of good
; health.
Dinners ard entertainment will be given
, 10 those who have enough at home, and
/ the poor will receive much advice gratis,
legal and medical excepted.
The pupic debts Of the repudiatlns
&c a.. al ,nl Sh,
$ Same fate will very probably attend many
private contracts in ihis latitude.
He that marrics this year will run n
great risk. especially if he does it in q
r hurry
O He who steals match, gives ta.tlers oc.
II casion to gossip, and will be apt TO involve
: himself and bride in disagrecablc rela.
lations.
d There will be great noise all over the
n country when il :hunders, and n trench.
dous dust will be kicked up occasionally,
. by coach horses.
= Many young ladies, who hope for it but
n little expect it, will be married; and many
IS who confidently anticipate tina, glorious
contamination, will be doomed to wal,
,r another year.
r. Finally, there exists little doubt, this
d will be most wonderful year, surpas.
sing in interest all that have preceded il.
Politicians will make fools Of others; and
= many women with pretty faces will make
n fools of both.
- The world will go round as usual and
,. come back TO the place whence it set GU,
z as many man who engages in business
There will be a great cry and little wool,
both at the shearing ofpigs, and the meet
= ing Of Congress-