Show THE PROPHET I an ali Inte interesting r dissertation anent lit the Theat threatened ened storm in ili march washington wigging wiggins tal takes ps nothing back not he lie others may inay turn in their track tracks or edge on their prophecies if they want to but bia never wiggin wiggins wiggins of ottawa 11 rival ot of vennor of montreal P Q we mean on alie other hand lie elicks to it stiner stif fier than over ever not only is ho lie surer than lie was of the tile fearful storm which he lie hasset has get for the tile oth of march next but ita its going goin to bo be a bigger thing than lie at first supposed much bigger more Alore every overy way so to speak jr its to be oneo one of f the few shows that will surpass the promises ortho of the preliminary highly colored po posters ettre and ita its bound to come unless the tile planets atop in their orbit orbits lie confident confidently IX declares furthermore it will be felt all over tho tile world brorn sea to sea and ind from pole to pole this will wil inake make it bad for the people of the continents and of the sea as well weil as forthe for the men who go down to the sea sett in ships and who generally have bave to stand tho the brunt of me rackets ets of this sort also for the boys who may bo be engaged in hunting for the pole st fit tho tile time tinie very bad borall far all them the way wigging wiggins know all th s is by the heavenly bodies lie tells us I and by his calculations based thereon that settles it the heavenly bodies barring meteors and an air occasional comet and of course wiggins fool away his valuable time on temporary gim cracks like these arc are tile most reliable authorities imaginable and andrs ts for figure figures why everybody knows hey they never lie the world ought tb be satisfied with this showing certainly but lest it ma may not be and to make assurance doubly sure wiggins proudly points to his own record as a prophet in the past now nothing 11 under the sun is 13 nor nothing under the sun can be BO so conclusive as a record of the past proudly pointed to holy writ is hardly moro more of a settler there is only one drawback to it it lias has its itz ono one weak spot liko like that in the fco ko called armor of achilles as it were ic it always bear examination and the more proudly it is pointed to the more likely is some fellow to look into it there is such a tiling thing as tempting fate too far the prophet who points too proudly runs thia this risk and that is what wiggins has done ho ire triumphantly antly says lio lie foretold the great storm accompanied by hail which would pass over the american continent from the southeast on the of june 1881 iio ile says moreover that it wag was en cn hand band at the hour named and also that it unroofed houses in washington 11 and played smash I Fenc generally rally all over tho the country taking raking wiggins unfailing formula forgetting for getting at thin gsand adding to it his ilia previous bucce successes ases in ill the same line it would seem bate to count upon the shab ingup promised for march ath as certain to come 00 off but alas what arc are tho the facts there was no storm in washington on the of june 1881 the severe gale which visited thia this city that year and did so much damage M asto to make it one of the notable storms in the memory of even the oldest inhabitant occurred on an tho the of the of if eliat month it come from tho the southen south cither eitler but from the northwest neither was it gereral in its character nor widespread wide spread in its it was ran entirely and peculiarly culi arly aily local both in character and application this scenia to make it bad for wiggins and liia his record very bad but unfortunately we ire catiti ot alter history not even for wiggins Wig gina |