-Only 60,000 full-blooded Red Indians arc to be found to-day in the United States. —In 3865 a German predicted that ho would be a victim of a war that would take place in 1866. The war occurred, but did not affect Mm. The other day—42 years later—he was:laughing at his old-time prophecy, and boasting of his good health, In this happy mood Jio bought an old cottage' from a friend, and straightway .went to inspect it. In the garden there was a quantity of old iron, and among it a shell dating from 1866. He picked it up, and was examining it, when it exploded, and he was killed on the spot.' The prophecy had come true,—Zeitung, Bielefeld, Wermanj,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14386, 2 December 1908, Page 5
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