The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-06

vember, 1903, at the fun moon, after an un-
usually wet season Of six months. A tremen-
dous wind arose on the oath, and blew on with
increasing violence, day and night, until the
10Th, when It became an appalling hurricane
that hurled tiles, signs, timber work. etc. inte
indistiDguishable ruin, and awakened the
utmost fear that the entire city of London
would be levelled. All the ships on the
Thames were blown from their moorings and
tossed ashore, head and stern together. This
dreadful wind never intermitted for seven days
and nights,
Hundreds of vessels were destroyed in port,
and scores Of others never returned from sea,
while at least eight thousand sailors perished
To give some idea of the force and velocity of
this atmospheric current, we may mention
that vessel laden with tin was driven out Of
Helford at midnight, with only two men and a
boy on board, dragging her four anchors, and
without sail was dashed into a creek in the
Isle Of Wight at the next morning. Thus
she must have been carried thirty miles per
hour, and the velocity of the wind was proba-
bly, three or four times as great.
We have not room to-day to do more than
refer to the terrific volcanic eruptiOns, earth
quakes, inundations flights Of shooting stars,
showers of blood, stones, animalcule, sulphur,
SCOT, frogs, etc, that have been witnessed;
vast spaces of the ocean covered with inflam-
mable oil, or with fluids resembling milk and
blood; columns of rocky fragments, and dust,
and smoke suddenly rising from the earth and
ascending to the clouds on fair days, torrents
of rain descending without speck to be seen
in the sky; dry, dark mists evidently not of
aqueous vapor, rising to the zenith and rest
ing over whole provinces for days together,
Obscu1ipg the sun.
Suffice it to say that all the resistless forces
of nature which have wrought such revolu-
tions in other epochs, even to the sand storms
of the Desert that entombed the entire army
of Cambyses, letting not one man escape,
seem to have received some recent renewed
impulse, and that phenomena multiply upon
us with startling rapidity.
1t has Just been discovered that comet of
great size undoubtedly exists, and completes
its fight within the limits of our solar system,
and that it is attended by an accumulating
train of cosmic matter. Close astronomical
observation confirm, the belief that our globe
and its satellite plunged directly through the
train the comet that appeared in 1861, and
since that date there has been an unusual re-
curTence of celestial and terrestrial phenomena
reflected, as it were, in the moral and political
perturb atoms of mankind.
The augmenting size and number Of the
spots visible on the disk Of the sun, the gather
ing hosts of shOOting-stars now regularly
looked for, and the eccentric variations of the
magnetic needle, all point to some unusual
phase of existence through which our earth is
passing. If we look around u.s. on the condi-
tion of the nations, we find it agitated con-
fused, and expectant Of calamity and change
all Europe and Asia heaving with the fires of
suppressed revolution, and every part of
America, including the United States, anxious
and i'll at ease.
AL out the I'd of December coming, we may
expect to behold a succession of wonders
which the student ponders but scarcely men
tions.--N. T. Sunday Mercury.