Glad It Is To Be By Fire

Souic ilreamy individual who has nothing but dark forebodings to present to his fricnds and the public, has read Mother Shipton's prophecy, and reading bclicved, and o has devised a mcthod of destroying tbc world accordinu to the proniise thcrein recorded. He says that come uionstrous comet is to f'all into the sun, and the extra heat eaused thcreby will raise the teuiperature upon the earth's surface to such a degree that it will all be liurned to a criep, and nothing will escape destruction. Tliat's a ploasing theory to advancc, wben the thernioraeter is 2(f below zero, that's certain. It almot take one's breath away to think about it. It's ¦ better way to perish, too, than to bo ehascd f'roui oue niiiuntaiii top to aoothcr ly a tíood, and then at last have to swini until ezhausted, ... on i'j ucicun , it 10 itti pien;i üwh:, also, to beiog jumbled all up in a shapeless mass of human jelly by .sudden voloanic action wliieh would barst the earth into thousands of fragiuents, and throw a man toward jupiter while his mother-in-law would go "carocheing" up to the moon ; and imnicasurably better than being converted into an cicle by frigid excessen of the aleáoste We Hay better than all these because it in a divine way of onding one's existence : the good Klijah, it will be remombered, was tmnsported in a chariot of fire. An 1 tlion too if would be an easy death. When a certain temperature is reached the marvelous raachinrry of the human body ceases without a moment'9 warning. Thcre will be no agony, no writhlng, no attenuated long drawn out tortures, but the passage from tliis lifo to the uncertainties of the bevond will be "in the twinkling of an eye. " Yes, we're glad the miserable oíd pessimiatic prophet decided upon this particular way of endino np all thinga on this - UI „ „„l. H K„ ... lUnk fnr so doing, the old crobate, but we hope he will have to be turned on the gridiron two or three times before expiring, just so he may realize the terrible destruetion he has oom mi tt ad.