The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-15
Predictions Verified.

Some day" said wandering gypsy to
the keeper os a wayside inn near Ran
cola, In the Ducy of Parma, that child
or yours will he among the great ones
OF the earth. Kings will vie with one
snother TO DO him honor and when he dies
The innkeeper guffawed loudly at the
prophecy as he poured out glass Of wine
Tor the prophet 20 drink the boy =
health, but he lived long enough TO see
his son. Giuseppe Verdi on the high road
10 the honors and fame which were show
cred on the great musician later. and
which closed recently I'm a national funer-
= and the grief OF continents
Ten years later tall. gaunt. raw boned
youth. who had made journey 10 New
Orleans as hired hand on a istboat
was tempted by a fellow workman TO
have his fortune told by an old woman
VINO had a reputation for divining the
You are low now" she said. after con-
sultine the cards. very low. but YOU will
rise high. You will be the greatest man
IN all America, but see bloodshed and
but. no! must not tell YOU any more"
Come along, Abe that's good enough -
the youths companion said. as he
dragged him away laughing hugely at
the prospect Of Abe Lincoln ever rising
higher than a fiatboat.
But thirty years later, when Abraham
Lincoln was inaugurated as president of
the United States, he recalled the proph-
ecy. but he could not see the end That
came later. on the tragic evening Of April
u, five years later when the bullet OF
the mad actor. Booth, crashed into the
presidents brain
But IL is by no means always evil that
these tellers OF fortune predict II Is
said that more than twenty wears ago
when the present beautiful Duchess OF
Marlborough was little more than an in
FAINT, fortune teller prophesied that one
day she would wear n coronet and that
she would become the ancestress OF a
line Of kings The FIRST mart of thix good
Han tgnF nj xsrhA u
that the latter part OF Il il impossible
When Miss Wiuifred Dallas-YorlSe was
young girl just giving promise Of the
known Brighton fortune teller. told her
that she would wear a duchess cornnet
prosnect that seemed then almost inn
possibly remote.
And vet a casual meeting at a country
railway station led 60 the vooing which
made her the Duchess or Portland
Nearly seventy wears ago remarkable
future was predicted for young sppren-
iice I'm Troy grocery store by a stray
customer II guess youll smile" the
strange man said. but youll remember
my words Before YOU die you'll have
more than any man in the world has to-
day, and more than you'll know what
to do with
To boy who was then earning a dollar
a week, with small prospects OF ever
achieving anything more than having
store ~ his own, this prophecy was anus
llk. w NFl lINi lltIF comes ne lAlltn-
inglv said. u calculate you'll never want
10 work again The time did come; to-
day Russell sag is credited with for
tune Of E20ep0.0W sterling growing every
year. and the prophet" lived long enough
tO claim the promised share or W. which
took The substantial form OF an annuity
OF 5000 wear
To predict that a Yorkshore stahl, boy
would rise 90 th7 rank ~ court official
and minister would ordinarily be q very
rash prophecy, but ~ rHue In the case
Of the stable hoy. who after being In
turn jockey and valet 10 the Duke Of
Iucca. rose ultimately 10 the high Of
fcrS of minister ~ the household and
minister of finance in the duchy uarma
aud was known 10 the world As Baron
Ward.
Among other rsmarkabl. predictions for
which there is good authority are that
which foretold thai the czarina of RUS
b, srfng, sn seir f6ythe utS'ne: and that
OF ~ Charles Perrin. n rafni q. who told
Prc'idsgS tsnFS .Ass he .yog,ld Die within
He actpiS dice rithiuteRhteen months
The Htseni NJ tat 800 10 pay FREE
quent Yislts ~ fortune tellers always,
MI ng ~ s5it STGso r,an nrve issm een,f1d ~
o. common knowledge that she was dis
tiuctly warned OF the tragic Tate that
would overtake hHr husband vhoss as
"a ssiua ton ls such = recent aud rsiufpl
memory. but. Nh spite ~ avery prscau-
ton that her love Tor him could devise.
she was nnsbie 10 avert his destiny.
NotWithstsnding these prophecies com
Inc trIr IN the above cases. there IL no
douht nine-tsnths Of them are mere
gilessfs and prophecies Which are never
fuiiiitd Tit Biz. go ---