The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-06
ATERRIBLE TEAR AT HAND.
SOOthsayers, AstrOlogers and wizards
How Cast Their aPeu Upon IsSI.
New York sun.
"The world TO an end shall come
In eighteen hundred sud elghty-cne,"

"The world TO an end shall come
In eighteen hundred sud elghty-cne."
IAothey 6hipton's Prophecy.
1t would DO difficult 10 deac1ibe all the
sinister predictions that have, a. BY common
consent, been concentrated upon tho eouing
year. The soothlayeTs, OWNERS, oracle
makers, ss'rologers and wizards seem
to have combined to cast thor spell
upon it. SuporstitiOus pooplesof every sort,
and some who are not willing to admit that
they are supers,itious, regard the year 1881
with more or less anxious expectation and
dresd. AB tho earth Oh New Years asy
fwings out into another round about The sur,
il will 20 to meet host Of Syil eEens. Il
will go cursed by thsomEacy Sad bi3lio-
NANCY.
Acromancy and meteoromancy will glare
st it from comets and shooting stars. 0deiro-
NANCY will intercept Ito path with visions Of
evil, and nomSacy will shake the ominout,
backward resaieg numerals "lS81' before
il. 1t will DO bssot with scsra-croW figures by
arithmancy, ind with raenRciRg phrases BY
ftrichmsncy Yet thers is no reason why
persons Of good digestion Should not 20 TO
seVp on Now Year's Bisht confident tbat
after having encountered tho average ouia-
THY Of Storm and sunshine, the one-serSo
ball that we call tbs world will bring thsn,
safe through the Observation-Disclosures
flight round to the rtsrting point
TiElid persons began to c,k forward with
some alarm TO tho year that is about to opsn,
when several years ego, tbs key to The 90
called prophetic symbolism OK the rreAl
pyramid Of RgyPt WIS mado public, backed
by the nRmo and reputation Of the Britain
astronomer Piazza bmyth. Others using
Ar. Smyts's observations and measurements
have gone much further than ha did in
drawing startling inferences but no one can
read his book without percoi1ing how
powerfully ii must effect thoS. who
haya tho slightest leaning tewsrd
suspicion or ere2uliiy, Besides, this
record of explorations and experiences in tho
heart Of EgyPpG greatest m6rvel'hss all Tho
charm and interest of DIR. Schiemann's de-
scripticn OF his discoveries ia Homer'I Troy.
Such book could not we'll be neglected Sy
the world of readerS; and by tho nature Of
The human mind, May Of ito readers were
sure to 10 inbusd with itE omiaous dogma
DO the belief, or ut leEs. thoGuEpcea, tpresd
tibet the great secret chambers Of thu grsAt
pyramid, under divine guidance by the nest
mystical character in Hll history, MSchise3ek
king OF Salem, foretsil, aneng other things
that the Christian era will end in 1881.
Mother symptoms Bo-ealled prophecy Axes
upon the same date for the cad of The world
The ominous jingle ofler rhymes has probe
big done at least as much tc,,ibturb the eoua-
unity Of crsdulsus persons az thc mora ola.
borato VACCINATIONS Of the pyramid inicr.
prslers. Moreover, Mother Shipton ia
oDt,d rs .oratalling that in thelatter days
ant "will Eccept Jew" As EnslnBd
s., ri'@ '2'sderablo emphasis, md mora
a oay pied tho remarkable son Of
NJ l4'ac eaI for her prime minister,
HIH afA b.'n taken IS % fildman. OF tho
prophecy. So Lord Bo&con.fsld's dramatic
IS ma1o principal agura in The
mully cloud Of evil prophecy that hangs
over 1881. -e'