New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-25

u-ed no vtchoraa, but did AZ hes woaders by tho
/ siens of the zodiac:
81 will tell you frd what these cards Indicate,
I,iI lock at the lines Of your hsnd and Il en- will
answer three questions" Here she paused while her
agtated listener sneezed couple Of times thea she
resumed speaking with strong foreign accent: 4" You
are good di,po-ition-have excellent memory yol
don't have many eremy, but what you do is of your
own seI-you sro very frank peron and YOU wac born
IN the sign Of the Crab. You have some lucky dsy,
which ar Monday, Thursdays and Fridays. whatever
YOU do ou these day il well. but you shall not wash
your Lair Oh Thur-days if 50, you will wash all your
luck away You must be very careful ot FIRE and wa
ter YOU will be in great danger Of fire and water and
YOU must be very careful. You may die by FIRE or
water cannot ssy but you must certain be very
full Of FIRE and water You must also be very careful
Of dogs very careful Of dogs. you may die by dog
. hut you must certain be very careful of dogs
Here be paused again. and while reporter Was
II edtatipg upon the full force Of what he had heard
ard wa iuwardly resolving to 90 Immediately home
shoot Juno aud drown her nsyet-unofending- -but-in
After days dangerous tC-hi- pesceof-nnd and-the
happnesS-of-hi.-life pups she prepared for the
opd portion Of her discourse. Taking reporters
hand in hers proceeding which made him feel as if
he had put his fingers into bladder Of Maceoboy
he made the folo wing prediction :" You will be the
father Of FIVE children, two Of them will be boys, who
will be a great comfort % YOU when you grow old.
She spoke no good Of the girls, and our delegate
fore,aw feminine trouble in hs household with those
sane young ladies'. Having few moments to him
.elf before she resumed, he worked himself into
rrest pae,ion with the ungraeful hussies who were
about to treat their kind old father in scHndaIou
manner; but presently recolecug that they were a.
vet III tie condition Of your sister Bescy Trotwood
who never was born. he feb that he slightly pre-
mature in his wrath, so be cooled down, and resolved
TO make the best Of it with his comfortable boys.
The yellow scrcerrss cotnucd Your line of life Is
long. and YOU will live to good old age. You have
had much trouble in love affairs, and now your first
love /. entirely lost to you. You can never reclaim
her and you must never venture nything in lotteries
Whether Madame Fleury suppo-ed that her visitor
intended TO spend his salary in lottery tickets, in the
hope of winning back hi- early or whether she sup
poed that the woman exhibiting herself a. Per-
hams Gift Lady, is the person. il not IN evidence
but, from the peculiar construction Of her last remark
something Of the kind have been in her thoughts
She had now reached the third part of her discourse,
and come to the three question:. She produced an
old French Bible dingy with age and snuff, and which
she informed the observer had been in her family for
three hundred year, an old iron key tied between
the leaves with the ring and part of the shank of the
KEY projecting and the Bible tightly bound round
with many folds of black ribbon Making our reporter
hold one side Of the ring of the key, while she held
the other she said: Ask your three questions and
il they are TO be answered in the affirmative
the book will turn" Our reporter, who had
been much impressed by her canine observation
of a few minutes before and whose thoughts
we're still running upon his pet Juno and her
six innocent Offspring in fit Of absence Of mind pro-
pounded this intenogatory: I" Shall marry the per-
son of whom am now thinking ?" The potent En-
cbantress repeated the question aloud in French and
then, with pale lips and trembling voice she addressed
the book and key thus
''Holy Bible ask you, in the name Of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost, will this man marry the
person now in his mind l'-then she cosed her eyes
for \ moment, placed hand over her heart and
rapidly muttered something in so low tone that 1t
vas inaudible to her listener. Immediately the Bible
commenced 10 turn slowly toward her, and soon had
made complete revolution. thus expressing very
decided affirmative. Having started a matrimonial
subject with 70 satisfactory result our anxious re-
porter thought he could do no better than to follow 1t
up. and accordingly asked question No :: If |
marry this person. will the marriage be happy one
The same answer given in the same manner
BEING now satisfied as TO his own matrimonial pros
pcct, he concluded to ascertain those of his children
and question No. 3 was asked, as follows: Shall
live to seq my children happily married" J" There was
II long delay which was undoubtedly occaSioned by
difficulty of properly providing for those refractory
girls, but at last there came reluctant Yes
Having now got oil that his dollar entitled him to,
our reporter prepared to depart. The Madame In
formed him that in few days she would have her
Magic Mirror from Paris with which she could do
new wonders and she hoped that he would soon call
again, adding, :" II was ten year younger would
not admit gentlemen, but now am old and must
Madame Fleury from Paris to New-fork
about five years ago; she has great many visitors
she asserts that many Of the leading merchants OF the
city have been to see her and that several OF them
come regularly in six weeks to consult her about
all their business affairs Having ascertained all these
important items our reporter gave one tremendous
sneeze as a parting salute, ard went his way.
The next visit was to Mr.. Grommer, distinguished
negro Seer sojournng for the present in an eligible
.hanty at No "a North Second street. WillamsburSh,
Long Island.
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