STARTLING EVENT.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 156, 1 March 1872, Page 3

STARTLING EVENT.

A. very disagreeable prophecy is men. tioned by an Indian paper, the ' Urdu Akhbar,' as having been uttered by Maulvi Muhammed Salim.uz-¥aman r the famous astronomer of Rampore, whose deductions have generally turned* out right. This gentleman predicts that in the coming year a blaze of light resembling a shooting star, the like of, which no mortal has yet seen, will be! visible in the.isky. "It will dazzle the eyes of the people of particular places with lustre, and after remaining for a ghari (£«., twenty-four minutes) will vanish. The direction in which it will make its appearance will be the north pole, and accordingly the people of northern countries will see it distinctly. Probably the natives of China and Persia likewise have a sight of it. The effect of this meteor will be that : the extent of the globe over which itn light will fall will be visited- by famine during the year, and a large number of the people; inhabiting it ! will He des. troyed vegetation; will lalso be scanty." This news will make British housekeepers intensely nervous, more especially a* there are already predict turns among farmers that in the course of the next twelve months, mutton will cost eigh.teenpence the pound, The wisest course they can pursue is to seep a sharp look-out for the appearance of the star, and in the meantime -to lay in a good stock of Australian preserved 'meat'. !