The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-08

Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep. shall talk.
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black. in green.
Iron In the water shall float
AS easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found, and found
In a land that's not yet known,
Fire and water shall wonders do
England shall at last admit q Jew.
Tn world TO an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and elghty-one.
Now the foregoing is said to be a
prophecy, and there are hundreds of
thousands of people in this and other
countries who believe-for the reason
that nearly all of these supposed proph-
ecies are said to have proven true-that
the world is TO come to an end during
the present year.
On investigation, however, it turns
out that not n of the matters fore
Swallowed by Mother Shipton have hap
pened in any reasonable sense.
For instance, the first, Carriages
without horses shall CO." has not been
fulfilled, except that if you turn one
loose at the top Of the hill it will be very
apt to go to the bottom. A steam cart,
car or vehicle does not fill the bill at
all.
The next, accidents shall fill the
world with VICE." was a fact that exist
ed long before Mother Shipton was
born.
AS to thought flying around the
world Sin the twinkling of an eye,'' we
might say that while thoughts may be
sent from San Francisco through to
Hong Kong in the curse of four or five
hours, yet it takes about thirty-four
days for the connection to be made
with San Francisco again, which is not
exactly sin the twinkling of an eye."
So that prophecy of Mother Shipton
has not as yet been realized.
The wonders that water will do are
not very important, and we have no
doubt that Mother Shipton could have
accomplished more with water and a
washtub than by the pen of prophecy.
Next comes, 1.-THE world upside down
shall be" and if this prophecy has been
fulfilled, why on earth aren't we over
in China, where we a get our tea just
rs it grows On the original bush?
Gold was found at the root of the
tree long before the old lady or ''her
| sisters and her cousins and her aunts''
were thought of.
She says that man shall ride through
hills, and no horse, etc., at his side.
Well, you can't 60 %''through'' hill or
a wall unless there is an opening, and if
the good old lady had said that men
| shall ride under a hill-that is, through
a tunnel, which is not through a hill at
all-she would have struck it just
right.
The next is, "under water men shall
walk, shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.
Several hundred years before Mother
Shipton blest the earth with her pres
ence men nsed to do all these things for
those who used to sail in ships and sleep
In the cabin hold were virtually under
water, a much so as those who to-day
pass through the Thames tunnel or 60
down into the sea in n diving-bell.
In regard to men being seen in the
air in different c%olors, we have only to
say that they have neve got up that
far, unless through the agency of a bal
loon or on the end of the hangman's
rope.
EkIrAt, sp fln rrafa- ehon Aonf NC nncu
as a wooden boat" Why, in Mother
Symptoms time, if she had taken her
iron frying-pan and skipped it out on a
mill pond, she would have found that it
would float just as well as the wooden
ladle with which she used to batter the
little ones.
Gold has, of course, been found in
many lands not known then, and is
destined to be found in many places not
known to-day.
Fire and water have done wonders long
before Mother Symptoms time. Water
once caused the flood in the days of
Noah.
England shall admit a Jew" is a
prophecy of very vast Importance in
deed. If we remember correctly, that
country has admitted several hundred
thousands Of Jews, just as we admit
millions of foreigners every decade.
That is-they can come into the coun-
try and settle if they choose.
The last and final prophecy is that