THE DENSE FOGS IN ENGLAND.
Daring the intense fogs in England on January 10th to Utb, the Birmingham correspondent of the London Telegraph wired:—"Many of the ill-edacated people here were to-day ihrown into r> State ot absolute terror by a report Which gained wide-spread credence that, in consequence of the conjunction of Mars and Uranus with Mercury in an eril aspect, there would be earthquakes and other dire calamities. Women kept their beds, and would not let their children attend school; many ignorant persons met to pray; females of the class commonly seen in ginshops bought Bibles'} and members-of the Salvation Army held forth on the Dmne wrath immediately impendiog. It is long pinee aucb • remarkable instance of the survival of superstition was witnessed."
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1716, 27 March 1888, Page 3
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124THE DENSE FOGS IN ENGLAND. Temuka Leader, Issue 1716, 27 March 1888, Page 3
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