PEEPS INTO 1901.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 54, 23 March 1901, Page 4

PEEPS INTO 1901.

ASTROLOGERS WHO DO NOT AGREE IN THEIR PREDICTIONS.

Assuming it wen »t all needful to do moaßtr&le the fniacy of forecasts] bftged on so-oiHpd r~trologic»l culcnlutiotie, it won'd he '"eply sufficient to c lupare—«s rhe w iir has (tooe trie pre lictions put fo ; j»ard for 1901 by •hose almanacks th-,6 nnke »s-peciility of tb'6 sorii of v-rfcal Lot stuJom • that they »grte Old Mt ue, for iastanc?, it-ties that in January ocr p will increase, whie Raphael tell us that tlwre wvl much distress in the land. Zadkiel, "gain, reterricg to the same month, fays specifically that the public hoa'th will not be good, while at least three pab'icatioaa ran on siu iiar l;no« assert that it will. <

Among Raphael's predictions for February U one to the effect that e terrib'e disaster with appalling loss of life will occur at sea, Zidkiel hap nothing about this, nor th > other seers.

Catious'y enough, however, thefoor principal prophe ic almanack* Moore's, Raphael'.', Orino'rf, and Zidkiel'i—all prophefy a big theatre fire in Paris for Ma cu.

In April, accirding to three almanacks t'&jn wilt be unugilly good, two give out that >t will be t a 4, two are silent on the. subject, while yet mother predict? a heavy fill in the revenue returns in March

By Booth* r curious coiocideuce, no fewer than three of the " prophets " tsll of war in May. 1 Raphael's list ef pre die! ioos for June includes "an appalling sccident in travelling, attandant with heavy saeri- j fice ef life," an incident foietold, by! none among his rivals. On the nineteenth of the following month—we sra informed by Zidk'el —at abeut six p.m., the entry of Neptune into the tropic*i sign of Cancer takes place. They all agree that this ia a portentous event, but difle- widely concerning results. For August Orion prediots great firei in London and Paris. Raphael foretell* a "serious war" with "much despatching of troop*." Moore omits to mention either war or fires, but on the contrary, prophesit 3 peace. British trede and commerce during September are to be " unsatufaetiry according to Orion, " not good " according tj Raphael, while Zidkiel predict 3 that we shall find our trade increasing. *

Similarly, ia October, it ia not exactly easy to see how foreign affairs can be at the sune time " unsatisfactory and troublesome " and " satisfactory and placid," while it is even more difficult to reconcile the diverse predictions recorded under the November heading. We are awn red, for instance, th&t "o« In» ti an aoouUr <elipse of the son," the month will Le i both politically a;d socially, the darkest and ato aiest of any for tan years to come. Zadkiel, howevsr,' sees in this omen only a little sickness Among Royalty, and Orion ignores it. Finally, while Old Moore predicts tfaav December w'll exercise over London a ' bwefic" influence, Zadkiel prophesies for the la«t month of the year much sickness and a high rate of mortality for the met jpolis, coupled with an ontbreak of crimes of violence which is to " shock the community "; Orion says it will be scourged by ixtensive and terrible fires; and another prophetic publication of lesser cota boldly aanoußcea the total detraction of Leodon by an earthquake and tid»l wave, and the overthrow of Britain's maritime supremacy owing to a European coalition, as well es the death by a 'virulent sweating sickness" •of two-thirns of the inhabitants of the XJnitsd Kingdam.—Daily Mzil.