The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
PEEPS INTO FUTuRTTY.
Extraordinary Forecasts That Have
Been Fulfilled.
London Mail.

LONDON Mall.
Just previous to the assassination of the
Empress Of Austria the Emperor was heard
repeatedly to remark: Il fear something
awful is about TO transpire. l wish the
jubilee year were safely over. ms primes
Just over thirty years ago visitor TO
Edinburgh was being shown over the High
Court of Justiciary: He made some remark
reply the official jokingly said the visitor
might one day be sentenced to be hanged in
notorious DIR. Pritchard; two years had
barely passed when in the dock he had so
closely inspected he was doomed to death
for poisoning his wife and mother-in-law.
To many watchers of the political weather.
cock the rapid rise of Mr.. Asquith to re-
nown as a statesman was little short Of
self, however it was but the natural out
come of his own resolve. When a youth at
the City of London School he informed all
and sundry that he meant TO take nigh
honors at oxford, enter the House of Com
mons. and become an influential member of
the Cabinet.
recorded, while passing his boyish years at
Elton, foretold that in the coming years he
would win the Derby and. more important
STILL be prime minister. Both Lord Rose
berry and Mr.. Asquith prophesied the things
whereof they knew.
A gentleman conceived the idea that he
would only live a certain time, so he made
nice calculation Of his fortune, which he
so apportioned as to last just the same
period as he guessed his lie would extend TO.
Strangely enough his calculations came
correct TO the letter. for he died punctually
at the time he had previously reckoned;
he had so far exhausted his estate that,
after his debts had been discharged, a soil
tary pair of slippers represented the entire
properly he left.
His relatives buried him, and a repre-
sentation OF the slippers was carved on the
tomb; to-day in a churchyard at Amsterdam
his grave may be seen, the only inscrip-
ton on the, stone being two Flemish words,
The late Mr.. George Moore came to Lon
don from Cumberland a poor, friendless
and from the beginning declared he would
eventually marry his employers daughter.
and become his employers partner. He ac-
complished both ambitions, became very
wealthy, and a man of whom his generation
might well be proud.
When Warden Hastings was a lad his
great grief was that his family had lost
their paternal estate at Dayesford, and
he was constantly heard to say, II will buy
it back. He grew up to make both history
and a famous name, and he died at Dayles-
ford.
Among the many records of Harrow
school is that of a boy, the of a poor
business. His school fellows often tainted
i hlm about his family poverty; their thought
less less je GERS, although hurting his feelings,
fore l die to ride in a coach and four
me years sped by, and 10 and behold! the
developed into DR.. Parr, the greatest
scholar of his time, whose customary and
favorite means of locomotion was a coach
and four.
The seventh child of the German Emperor
and Empress is a daughter, their other six
children being sons. The House of Hohen-
zollern has tradition that in one year
three Emperors of that house will reign in
Germany, the third will have seven sons,
and will bring ruin to the nation, as we'll
as the empire to an end.
This direful prophecy has seen the fulfill
ment of its first part; whether the arrival
or a seventh son wiz bring the calamities
predicted the future will show.