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Show AN OLD LADY'S PROPHECY. Xao Seventeen Tear toenstsand Coy Bablet a Suro Sign of War. I met an interesting old lady in on of the Hudson river cities recently. Shs was in her ninety-third year and wa much interested in a telegram which r-portbd r-portbd that farmers in the vicinity cf Nyaok were plowing up thousands oi 17 year locusts in tho grub form, the first appearance of these insects, it was stated, since 1877. Giving her spectacles specta-cles a little nudge, the old lady looked ap from her paper and exclaimed: "Here! That means war! In 1860 flocks of these locusts great big, olumsy things were found all over tho country, and on the wing of every one of them cotuY be plainly seen the letter 'Yf. ' Thegrois war of tne rebellion followed. I teli ou we'll havo war oither here or h Europe if those critters come around again. "Another rare sign," sho added, "k the fact that all tho babies this year art boys. I read in an old history when I was a little girl that in the days ui Rojae's supremacy tho approach of waj tvaa always plainly indicated by tht great birth rate of male children. Looi out for stormy times," said the old lady, as she gavo her spectacles anothe? adgs, New York Mail and Exprm |