Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-02
CURIOUS PREDICTIONS.

Mother Shipton has foundered on cliff
that is strewed with the wreck OF numer.
Gus vaticinations. On this side of the
Indus, it seems, Messiahs are not suffi-
GENTLY encouraged to venture upon sec
ond advent. "This whole business of the
Delphic fraternity" says Professor Hegel,
sis nothing but Scheiben. schiessen i'm
Nebel-target-p practice in fog" Still, it
must be admitted that some OF the marks.
men have scored remarkable hits Not all
event, for it can not be denied that, eight
years before the birth of Napoleon Bona
parte, the author of the "Contral Social
Jean Jacques Rousseau) recorded in print
the following augauium. "J'ai un pre-
sentiment que la Corse produira un homme
qui etonnera lie monde "-l"I have pre-
sentiment that Corsica is going to produce
a man who will astonish the worldly Ma
poleon himself believed in omens and
portents as firmly as any Roman Caesar,
and openly professed his confidence
in certain lucky days (the I'd of
December and oath of October, for
inssanee). He confessed 60 Las Cssas
that in the night before the battle of Leip-
sic he was on the point of revoking all his
orders and abandoning his position, having
been seized with a sudden misgiviDg, which
only the stronger fear of ridicule helped
him to ovsrcome; and after his Russian
compaign he certainly had some excuse for
being little superstitious. In the winter
of 1907 the arbiter of Europe took it into
his head one day to consult the famous
clairvoyant Lenormand, whose feass in
" astrology" were setting all Paris agog.
The Pythoness told him that his fears of
another outbreak in Austria were unbound.
ed. Your power has not eliminated
yet," she said," "your star will keep in
the ascendant for another five years, but
after that it will decline and be eclipsed
for ever" The downfall of the Roman
Empire was foretold by many portents and
prodigies, of which even the elder Pliny
enumerates a long list /; and the testimony
of numerous Spanish historians makes it
certain that long before the birth OF
Columbus the ancestors of Montezums
were frightened by an ominous prophecy
which presaged the overthrow and
total ruin of their nation. Strange men,
cunning, strong, and altogether invincible,
were to come from the East and consume
the race of the AZtecs as the hoar- frost of
the Cordilleras are consumed by the morn
ing sun. Lord Bacon's bonmot respecting
forebodings might be applied to this kind
of prophecies, that SO man troubled with
has commonly good reasons to
expect things to go amiss !" but, even in
the noontide of prosperity, such omens of
a sudden night have now and then ap-
peared. King Rodrigo, year before
the altogether unexpected Invasion of the
Saracens, had a vision that "prostrated
his mind like a sentence OF death" and on
the battlefield of Heres, when squad
ron after squadron of his iron-clad war
riors were borne down by the onset OF
the Moslem fanatics, he turned to tie
Bishop of Toledo with the words: Esta
uenido lit has come These horses and
these riders l saw approaching in my
trance twelvemonth ago they are going
to overtake me now. Popular Science
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