New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-29
SIG Ms And PORTENTS.

Since the hens laid prophetic eggs during
the hight and heat of the Miller excitement,
npon the shells of which was plainly inscribed
the exact year of the worlds destruction, we
have not had such time of Portents the
present Only the other night there were the
mady shooting stars which were seen in great
numbers by the vigllant astronomers, and were
not seen 1--WE believe) by anybody else. Then
came the opinion of " II. S." on the meeting
of Congress. just previously, the Democratic
ghost had appeared TO assume the flesh, and
had with supernatural energy by its electoral
feats electrified the world, which had never
known the ghost OF the Tump of party 10 be
so uncommOny viyaciOus before. Then the
telegraph told us that foreign volcanoes were
becoming extremely eruptive, and If anybody
supposes that volcanoes have nothing To do
with the destiny of our race, he should read
M, for his better information, in Guyot and
Mr. Buckle. We might mention many other
wonders, but we hasten to the latest In the
garden of a Massachusetts gentleman Gas we
learn from the journals) there has been growing
gigantic dandelon, iit TO have been served
at the supper which Grangousier gave to wei
come Gargantua or TO have been boiled with
bit of bacon for the lunch of HeliOgabalus
We would not mention a purely agricultural
subject in this place, usually devoted TO other
matters if we did not feel that this great plant,
the stalk of which was ten feet high, and four
inches in circumference at its base, may pre-
figure the fate of the President of the United
States and we should like To have the opinion
of some of the more erudite of the Millenarians
Al 4 lar GO 10 thn
President. II was an accident SO is he. IL had
more hight than bottom SO has no. 1t has
occasioned many paragraphs in the newspapers
So has he 1t must have been mcommonly
hard Of digestion. So is he. IL 1ourished in
great and green and golden glory during the
Summer. So did he while he was OH his tour.
1t has been cut down rs cumberer OF the
earth. So, but We f0rbear to continue our
parallel!
1t is not our fault, however, if readers of
comparative turn are reminded of the gOurd
which Jonah was 30 exceeding glad OFF, and
of the worm that smote the scriptuml vege-
table. This gourd it will be remembered,
grew TO great proportions in very short time,
like the Massachusetts, dandelion, and like Mr..
Johnson, and persisted speedily like-no matter
whom. Then again, in discussing this subject,
80 strictly horticultural, who can help think
ing of Nebuchadnezzar Rex, dolefully chew
ing grass, with his hair like eagles feathers,
and his nails like birds -pathetically
Eliminating, and confessing what an ass he
made of himself when he put Shadrach and
the other two into an oven. All we have to
say is, that we hope the grass is of good flavor
in Tennessee, and that the rivers which meander
through the Presidents predesdinato pas
lures may have their source in some wonder
fully great dstillery, and be living streams of
the very purest Bourbon, with which kindly
and considerable wish, we leave this alegorcal,
symbolical and prophetical subject.