The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-01-28
:.rHE END OF THE WORLD
Mother symptoms Forged Prophecies
Planetary Perihel,a. RI

So far as Mother Shipton's prophecy Ii
concerned no one need feel anxiety. She Is
credited with saying:
ITO an end the world shall come,,r
In eighteen hundred and eighry-one"-
also with certain other predictions regarding
a Hebrew premier, railways, &c. The fact ID
that these pretended prophecies by Mother
Shipton were first written and published by
. Mr.. Hindley, of Brighton, England, who
subsequently acknowledged the forgeries As
| his own In Notes and Queries" series iv.
vol. xi. page 355. But,as might be supposed,
every one hrs NOT met with the forgery, aud
I no one, oraat sIl events very few, with the
contradiction, and regularly every few months
somebody comes forward with Mother Ship
| bn's prophecies Of the end Of the world in
fSsf. Mother Shipton was In reality an ig-
| norant old woman, famous as . fortune tell
er in her time, aud the string Of rh-lses she
left behind her contains nothing that might
not be applied to any period or place before
or since. There Is not syllable in them In
reference to Lord Beaconsfield, railways, or
the end Of the world.
With regard to Piazzi Smyth's deductions
different opinions may exist-astrological
writers generally have fully ventilated their
views elsewhere on the subject, but certainly
no one has predicted any such tremendous
catastrophe as the end of the world.
This only Is asserted, that, within the next
six years, the four large planets will make
their perihelion passages. When In perihe-
lion these bodies are nearest the earth, and
consequently their magnetic and chemical
influences must affect us and our atmosphere
In some extraordinary and probably violent
manner. The astrologers believe that these
great bodies of matter will, in the, words Of
an English writer, "tend to draw from the
atmosphere Cor earth) its most salutary quail
ities.- or vital principles, the least tampering
with which, not to say abstraction Of, must
result in fearful mortality. The atmosphere
deprived Of Its average healthfulness must
lead to plaques and pestilence.
These were the effects seen to synchronize
with previous coincident perihelia; it Is rea-
sonable to expect them again, but now in a
lesser degree, because of the superiority of
our sanitary conditions and consequent abil-
ity to resist the approach Of the destroyer.
DIR. Fulton, the eminent Brooklyn clergyman,
believes that we are already experiencing q
foretaste of what may be expected In the ma
lignant diphtheria which Ia raging in Russia,
America and other parts Of the world.
The planetary conjunctions during 1881
will be numerous and remarkable; that of
Saturn and Jupiter in April the most impor-
tant. 1t occurs In the sign Taurus, which
governs Ireland and Turkey, and momentous
changes will occur in those countries.
Apropos of the figures 1881 the followingis Is
curious: In the Cabala nine is mystic
number, signifying " complexion" and 1881
has the singular property of being divided
thus: and make o, and ] make Q. In
all the multiples of 8 the total is 0. Thus |:
0 rimesz, ~ and fand 8 make o. Nine
times 8, n, and the figures and 7 make o,
Nine times are SO, and s and 0 are Q, and
so on indefinitely; and this Is the only num-
Der which can be multiplied into itsels
This is curious, but ! do not think 1t indi-
Gates the end of the. world.-Baitimor
Netcs.