The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-03-10
MsrfIlansoas geIGttloas.
ooINCIDHNTs.

When Andre wrote his satirieal
sCowchase", in ridicule Of an expedi-
ton commanded by the American
General Wayne, ending with the
lines, ~ q
"Lsst tho same warrior-droTsF, Wayne,
Should catch and hang the post
he little thought he was anticipating
a sad truth and that he should. real
ly be taken prisoner BY some of
Wayne's division, to die the ignomi-
nious death at which he jested.
Archbishop Usher, when q young
man, pa cached a sermon in Dublin
in 1901, from the text, Sand thou
shalt bear the iniquity Of the house
of Judah forty days; ! have sppoin-
ted thee each day for a yea" Ap=
plying this to the governing powers
Of Ireland, he said, "Asd then those
whom you now embrace shall be
your ruin, and you shall bear their
iniquity." At the time this was
looked upon merely as an outbuFst
from a young hater of ,popery; but
when, exactly forty years afterward,
the Irish rebellion broke out, and
thousands Of Protestants were MUIR
dered, his words were remembered,
and held a proof he had the gift Of
prophecy; although it is not likely
Usher had any more idea ot the fal
fllment of what he said than Napo
leoD when he wrote to MaziniliE1
upon his displaying symtms Of
withdrawing his acceptance of The
Mexican throne, "What would you
say to me If, after you had been in
Mexico three years, were to say
the same thing to your" And YET
that was precisely what the Emperor
did suggest at the expiration of the
period he had named: Nor, probab.
Iy, did the writer of the warning
lines in the Unity CatOlica--
.Maximilian, 20 not TOO far;
Turn again, Max, to Mirsmar.
Tho crumbling Aztec thrones chalice
Brimful Of Gallo froth and malice
Who trusts the deceiver, who hopes against
hope,
In the folds Of the purple may find roper
deem he was to prove . true seer
true as the lot Victor Noir drew in
lest three days before he met his
death at the hands Of Prince Pierre
Bonaparte; true as the prophetisa.
Inscription upon the boulder in the
French riyer-"Those who have last
seen me cried, and those who may
again see me shall weep"-brosght
to light by the drought Of 1870, after
lying covered by the waters for two
hundred years.
If Macmillan received the papa
blessing when he started upon hi
| Inflated expedition, its issue is &C
counted for Pic Mono blessed Charles
Albert. and he succumbed to Radets
XIV at Novara; he blessed the King
Of Naples, and Garribaldi drove hin
from his throne; he sent his blessing
and the Golden Rose to Isabella o
Spain, and she became an exile; h'
blessed the first Roman railroad, anC
the first train ran off the line; h'
blessed convent of monks, and the
convent fell down upon all that were
in 1t.
Sco5ts agriculturist, Triptolemus
In the Pirate" discovers hon
| full of silver coins under his hearth
stose, which disappears again through
the agency of the oracular Norns'l
creature, the dwarf While tht
sheets of the novel were passing
through the pless, some workmen
taking up the foundation of an OLE
wall within very short distance o
Ithe supposed residence of Norma Q
the Fittul Head, came upon a nearth
stone under which they found horI
filled with coins of the Heptarchy
Another literary coincidence wa
lpointed ont by a writer in the Lon
ldon Times. The last paragraph o
"Our Mutual Friend" the last com
pleted work Of Charles Dickens, re
Ieounts how, upon the 9th of June
1855. the great novelist narrowly es
Icaped being killed in terrible rail
lwav accident, and concludes witt
these words: Il remember, with dc
r,Nut tliankfulness, that can neve
Inc much nearer parting compan.
with NV readers forever then ! wa
then ,Sntil there shall be writer
AGAINST Ny life the two words wit
which I have this day closed thi
lhook-THE END" Just five year
afterward, oV the very same day c
the very same month, The En-
came.
| DR.. Doran tells of eomical COLI
cidence, of which the rector, curatt
and congregation Of an English VI
lace were the victims. The recto
and his curate both returned to the
duty. after a long absence, upon th
same day. The curate took til
morning servaee, and preached S
we'll as to astonish his hearers.
I the evening the restor, who had 0
fcisted in a neighboring parish
| the morning. pscerded the pulp
and rather r jrtsed his flock by gi
ing out the same text rs the cura
thad chosen In the forenoon. The