FOR THE SUPERSTITIOUS. What the Stars Have Told and Foretold.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 418, 9 November 1889, Page 6

FOR THE SUPERSTITIOUS. What the Stars Have Told and Foretold.

The prophecies of bhe astrologists for the past month have been quite generally fulfilled, strange to say. They promised ' sad accidents, troubles, many murders', violent atiiiospheiic disturbances, heavy rain and thunder storms and much sickness, comparatively few deaths,' to all countries. The United States, in fulfilment, has had an unusual number of accidents by land and by sea — rail and water collisions, serious fires, explosions of boilers and in mines, a blunting reservoir and a few earthquakes. Murders, thanks bo the McDow verdict, have been unusually frequent throughout the South and also through the North. Much damage was done by the" excessively heavy rains during the _ first - part of the month, and many deaths, were repotted from lightning. There were epidemics of typhoid fever, diphtheria, and dyncntery in many place?, though the number of deaths from these causes were slight. The more special prophesies for European countries were not as fortunate as those already alluded to. Of all those made; the nearest approach to actual fulfilment was in the case of the unusually good harvests promised to Spain and England. Instead, of .'the King ,oi Belgium undergoing .-.a serious crisis In August.' as llaphael pre,- v dieted, his near neighbour, the King oM'faie -Netherlands, has been very. ill allthetnontb, and, much, doubt 'is felt e.ven- yet- of his recovery. . But that'M'as the nearest approach to fulfilment. - s .' - ' For September the promises are but little brighter as far as our own country is concerned. Strikes, railway accidents,troubles with the Indians, prairie fires, much sickness, high rate of .mortality, murders aud p, great scandal, probably an official one, are all on the prophet's ,' little list.' We are also just going to/escape war with some foreign country, but , we will escape it, so no uneasiness need be felt. - . Our friend John Bull is informed that 'cases qf^ cruelty to women -will" be frequent in the police courts,' and we really must feel, in consideration of the Maybrick case,' that the prophet must have intended this promise for August instead of September. In England, too, a great .poisoning case will be brought to light. September there will be a favourable month for trade, commerce and general prosperity, but unfavourable for navigation. The Ghurch of England and its ministers are to have some troublous times, and there will be disaster and scandal in other high places. Many serious accidents will lender travelling very unsafe. Many great and learned men will be in danger of sudden death, but the rate of mortality on the whole will be low. Russia w ill wage war with eitfter Turkey or India, more probably with TurKey^as the signs for trouble in that country are almost unmistakable. The Sultan of "Turkey will be in extreme danger, an"d "Russia's ruler in equal danger from Niiilists j he v» ill be fortunate if he escapes. France ia still warned that her President is in danger, and that she, Italy and. Germany may expect earthquake shocks. The latter is to expect sufferings from alarms of war, if not from actual fighting, and from an epidemic either this month or next. — 'Philadelphia Press.'