Mark Twain's Prophecy

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 66, 4 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

Mark Twain's Prophecy

To the editor of tbeN«;W York Sun : Sir,— As a result of the most cart=u observation of the aspect of the fixed stars daring the past two mouth*, as affected by the remarkable changes now going on in the great nebula in (j. Cassiopeia, I am able to etate with absolute certainty that by far the most awful disaster that has ever befallen this globe since its creation will occur on the 3rd of January at 9.42 in the evening. The agent will be a meteoric stone — a meteoric world, indeed, since its mass will be one eighth as great as that of our own sphere. It will first cotne in sight about half-way between the constellation of the Great Bear an i the North Star, and will make the circle of the southern skied, and then sweep northward with immeasurable rapidity, turning the night of this whole continent into a red ghire of the most blinding intensity. As it approaches Canada it will make a majestic downward swoop in the direction of Ottawa, affording a spec* tide resembling a million inverted rainbows woven together, and will take the Prophet Wiggins right iv the seat of his inspiration and lift him straight into the back yard of the planet Mars, and leave him permanently there in an inconceivably mashed and unpleasant condition. This can be depended on*— Mark Twain."