ANOTHER PROPHECY.
Prophecy has become the rage. It has extended from politics to the weather. Leaving "Dr Cumming of Scotland" out of the question altogether, it was not enough that the " Battle of Dorking" should have been fought, the second armada destroyed, and Great Britain included in the German Empire, by anticipation. A leaf from an old man's journal, dated a.d. 1900, is published by the " Birmingham Post," in which summer is fondly spoken of as a thing of the past. The " Great Southern Republic " had diverted the gulf stream by forming a breakwater from the mainland to the Bahamas, with the alleged object of making a vast central harbour for their enormous fleet, and England from that time forth was literally left out in the cold. Flying machines, pocket stoves, atmospheric tramways, and cucumberillumination are inventions of the epoch, all of which, however, fail to make up for the loss of summer with its foliage and flowers and warmth.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 862, 16 September 1871, Page 3
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160ANOTHER PROPHECY. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 862, 16 September 1871, Page 3
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