MARK TWAIN'S PROPHECY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7800, 20 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

MARK TWAIN'S PROPHECY.

A SUPREME DISASTER APPROACHING: THE IDES OF OCTOBER. "To the Editor of the New York Sun: Sir, —Aa a result of the most careful observation of the aspect of the fixed stars during the past two months, as affected by the remarkable changes now going on in the great nebula in G. Cassiopeia, I am able to state with absolute certainty that by far the most awful disaster that has ever befallen the globe since its creation will occur on the 3rd of.October at 9.42 in the evening. The agent will be a metaoric stone —a meteoric world, indeed, since its mass .will be oneeighth as great as that of our own sphere. It will first come in sight about half-way between the constellation of the Great Bear and the North Star, and will make the circle of the southern skies, and then sweep northward with immeasurable rapidity, turning the night of this whole continent into a red glare of the most blinding intensity. .As it approaches Canada it will make a majestic downward swoop in the direction of Ottawa, affording a spectacle resembling a million inverted rainbows woven together, and will take the Prophet Wiggins right in the Boat of his inspiration, and life him straight into the back yard of the planet Mars, and leave him permanently there in an inconceivably mashed and unpleasant condition. This can be depended on.—Mark Twain."