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Show AN OLD LADY'S PROPHECY. The Seventeen Tear Locusts and Boy Babief a Sure Sign of War. I met an interesting old lady in ona of the Hudson river cities recently. She was in her ninety-third year and was much interested in a telegram which reported re-ported tbat farmers in the vicinity oi Nyack were plowing up thousands of 17 year locusts in the grub form, the first appearance of these insects, it was stated, since 1877. Giving her specta cles a little nudge, the old lady looked p from her paper and exclaimed: "Here! That means war I In 1860 flooka of these locusts great big, olumsy things were found all over the country, and on the wing of every one of them couW be plainly seen the letter ' W. ' The greH war of the rebellion followed. I tell you we 11 have war either here or u Europe if those critters come around again. "Another sure sign," she added, "i the fact that all the babies this year ar boys. I read in an old history when 1 was a little girl that in the days (if Rome's supremacy the approaoh of war was always plainly indicated by the great birth rate of male children. Look out for stormy times," said the old lady, as she gave her spectacles another ndg New York Mail and Express. |