Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-12-29

Extraordinary Forecasts That Have Been
sitsJi Fulfilled.


London Mail
just previous to the assassination Of
tho Empress. of Austria the Emperor
was heard repeatedly TO remark: II
fear something awful is about 10 tran
spire. | wish the Jubilee year were
safely oyer.n This brings to mind
other instances III forecasts fulfilled.
just ov0r 30 years ago q visitor to
Edinburgh @asl being shown over the
high Conrtt;pf Judiciary. lie made
some, renuIrk concerning the dock and
its duties,s and la reply tho official
jokingly saidi the visitor might ono day
be sentenced 10 hp hanged III that very
room, Thessighiseer was tho notorious
Or. Pritchard. Two years had barely
passed whent}n tho dock he had so
closely inspected he WIS doomed to
death for poisoning his wife and
mother-i law.
To many watchers of The political
weathercook the rapid rise of Mr..
| ASquith to renown as u statesman was
| little short of miraculous. To the late
home secretary, himself, however, it
| was but ailatural outcome of his own
resolve. When u youth at the City Of
London School he informed all and
anntlry thut he meant to take high
honori at Oxford, enter the House Of
Cemmonss and become an influential
member of the Cabinet.
The Earl Of Rosebery, so IT is his
torically recorded, while passing his
boyish years at Iston. fnretold that in
| the coming, yoars he would win the
4 Derby, ard mora important still, be
! prime miujster, Both Lord Rosebery
and Mr.. Asquith prophesied the things
whereof they knew.
/ "A gentleman conceived the idea that
| he would only live certain time, SO
he made a nice calculation OF his for
tune, which he SO apportioned Us to
hist just the same period as he guessed
his life would extend to,
Strangely enough, his calculations
came correcttp the letter, fer he did
punctually ~ tho time he had pre.
4 viously reclQued, IIe had so far ex
harstod hisjsstate, that, after hls debt.
had been discharged. solitary pair al
Shippers Representa- the entire 'rrorert!
he lett. s}f, t7%
His. relatives buried him, and i
representation .'of the slippers was
carved On tho tomb, To-day In I
churchyard MT Amsterdam his gsav,
may be seen, the only inscription or
the stone being two Flemish words
4 .Etfen pytn q, a., "Esaetlyn).
The late George Moore came t.
4 London from Cumberland, poor
fyiendless' boy He entered grca
opmmercihl, house, and from thu be
ginning declared he would eventual,
marry his employers daughter, ant
become hiaf employers partner. I'll,
accomplished both ambitions, becam,
worry wealthy, and h nlan Of whom hi
generation might well be proud
When Warren Hastings was lad
his greatsgfief was that his family has
lest theirspatepnal estate at Daylesford
and he wiss constantly heard to say
II will hug 1T back. = He grew up t.
makeiboth hia.ory and u famous name
and he died st Daylesford.
: Among the many records of Harroy
School is thati3nf u boy, the son Of
poor local tradesman in d very SINAI
way Of business His school fellow
often taunted him about his famil
poverty. Their thoughtless ieerF
although. hurting his feelings, Dire,
from the lad the retort, II intend
before aio, tofride in u coach an
FOUR j.fl {tf
The ycaraispcd BY, aud 10 and be
| hold! the iypoSertyt yorngstf
of Harrow bud developed into Di
, Parr, the greatest scholar of his thine
whose customary and faynrite lneas
!, Of h,comptipn3was a cpach and four.
The sayetth child of the Ger,na
Emperor and Empress is daughter
their other six children ,boiny son:
The house or Hohenzolern has u trs
dition that In one year three empero,
; OF that honho will reign III Gesiuan,
, tho third will have a0ynn sons, and WI
/ bring ruth tothe nation, as we'll as I'll
empire u Rn end. F6 tt"
This dtpefu prophecy has seen III
!, fultilment of Its first part; wheth,
i the arrival of,.a seventh son will brir
! tho ealaniities predicted the futp
win shuY, 81 (}ie