Show DEPENDS ON THE STABS advices advises from pekin are to the effect that all sorts aorta of alarming rumors are circulating among the superstitious subjects of the chinese emperor in the spring of 1894 people noticed a arrange star giar or comblo combination atlon of stare over the eastern gates of the capital capita and one astronomer claimed to have boon a flaming dragon fall from rom the sky too the prediction was made that some great calamity would come over the empire from the east that the emperor would be deposed and a new DOW ruler ascend his hie throne the war with japan Is ie looked upon as aa a partial fulfillment of the prediction mid koiv now the rumors ru nors about a fall of the dynasty are being revived again it is ie looked upon as inevitably decreed by fate faie and written in the state the imperial house has baa been visited by several calamities this year tie tae mother of the emperor died supposedly as a result of the treatment she re melved at the hands of the be empress and his big brother died so as a consequence of injuries sustained by the fall from a carriage the emperor is in without an heir and this la Is regarded as aa a punishment of heaven for bis big supposed wrong doings should another strange star appear in which astrologi ers are might discover signs of disaster it to is thought to be almost certain that there would be a rising among the people of enormous magnitude |