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Show A scientific personage has got himself him-self into trouble at Tabreez, in Persia. Being distinguished in the art of astrology, as-trology, there cultivated, he alarmed the whole community by predicting a fearful earthquake which was to destroy des-troy the city. The end of the year came without the earthquake coming; and, as the court and other notables were camping out in tents during the severe winter weather, to avoid the expected ex-pected catastrophe,the votary of science thought it best to make a timely retreat re-treat oefore tbe futility of his prediction predic-tion was verified. |
