Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-04
~r rxp OF THE wQRLD.

A. alleged old woman called Mother
sh;nsou has been more quoted within the
,..t month than the Bible and Shakes
n..rs put together. just because an Eng
i;.hman named Charles Hindley wrote
some doggerel at Brighton, in 1852 al
,,a;no 10 sundry improvements OF civil
;v.t;on. wound it up with the words,
.Tbe world to an end shall come IN
1881. . and printed it in a new edition OF
Mother SYMPTOMS book, taking the old
n,rts from the copy in the British Mu-
seum. which was printed in l64l, and
does not contain the awful prophecy.
The date 1881 was chosen for two rea-
sons, First, because it rhymed after a
fashion with come, and second, because
Mr. piazzi Smith interprets the Great
Pyramid to predict the end of the world
this year.
No end Of conjecture has been wasted
over this silly forgery, and lots OF peo'
ME who do not confess it are Just the
least bit afraid it is coming true why
thew should be afraid, even il they insist
on thinking so, is more than we can see.
So far as anybody really knows, there Is
nothing more for any gwen individual 'o
fear in the general smash-up Of the earth
than in his own death from d~iphtberia
caught by crossing salted car-tracks' or
BY drowning while skating, or BY a rail-
road collision, or smallpox, or a skull
cracking fall ON an icy sidewalk In the
midst of life we are in death, anyhow,
and there is a greater probability OF al
most anybody's death this year than
there is Of the general conclusion
of terrestrial affairs at a most
inappropriate time, long before
man has fulfilled the destiny Of his race
bv the extension Of a peaceful, enlight-
ened republican form Of government over
the whole habitabIe globe. When that
happens, we shall all be fitted for exist
ence in a higher sphere, If ever Inc
world is approaching that state very
slowly, but in all probability she IS surely
destined to reach it, and there is much
more impairment meddling with the Dr.
vine purposes in pr~oclaiming the immi-
nence of a general destruction than IN
~venturing the remark that the world
won't be ready to end till everybody now
living is in a grave. The world is getting
better all the time, to the great disap-
pointment of the chronic grumblers, and
even when it becomes as good as 1t Is
going to be, there viii be no visible
reason for its destruction.
We might go on and assume the truth
of the prediction. and still we would only
be able to ask, which ends Perhaps the
beginning of a more glorious political,
social and religious era might be the
answer. And again, if we believed the
rhyme, we could get out of it by giving
s'end'' still another meaning-that OF OBJ
ject or purpose, and the world might
only accomplish some very desirable end
in 1881, such as the universal abolition
Of slavery. or the final collapse OF the
Republican party. It's just Ike these
crazy old prophetesses to fool people with
some such bubble. But, anyhow, there
is no need Of anybody giving themselves
the least uneasiness on Mother Symptoms
account, or the Great Pyramids either.
II all Of Vi follow the golden rule in u
dealings with relatives, employers. en-
ployes, neighbors, friends, enemies and
everybody else. we needn't fear the end
Of our individual world. or that Of any
thing elsa