Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-19

POPULAR DELUsIoNs. That the horns of
the new moon, including from the perpendic.
ular towards the eoncave, denote a wet
month, and the contrary a dry one.
That the fact of certain birds making their
nests in low grounds foretells drought in
the coming Summer.
That the flesh of hogs killed during the
"new moon will swell in the pot, and if
killed in the "old moon" will shrink
That when the husks of Indian corn are
thick and strong, the following Winter will
be hard one.
That an abundance of dead flies is a sure
sign of an approaching epidemic.
That low stage of water in springs and
streams, late IN the Autumn, indicates mild
Winter, and their fulness severe one.
That the extreme whiteness of the breast
bone of goose indicates that the Winter will
be cold, because, as we conjecture, the color
both of the bone and snow is white.
That party platforms show in the least how
their authors mean to act after being put into
power.
That the passage of resolves is any pre-
sumption that they will be remembered or ad-
hered to if they are.
That talking of the people, the dear peo-
pie, will make a man patriot, any more
than saying, Lord, Lord, will make him a
Christian
That men will remember promises, not
made in writing, any longer than sick man
will remember his resolutions after he gets
we'll, or than hen remembers her chickens
when she thinks it time to send them adrift.
That the Atlantic Cable is the Immediate
precursor of the millennium, any more than it
is of the deluge.
That frost always appears in six weeks from
the first singing of the katydids.
That hives of honey bees will not prosper if
they are bargained away aud sold for money.
That when their owner dies, his heir must
knock upon the hive and inform the inmates
of his deceased, and that he has now become
their master, on pain of losing them by grad
ual decay or accident in case of his neglecting
this formality.
That if the first north least storm in autumn
clears up warm, all the succeeding ones till
the next spring will terminate in a similar
way, and so the winter will be mild.
That eclipses are the cause of cold weather.
and that comets, if not, as once maintained
by superstition, really prognostic of pesti-
lence and war, do yet shake from their hor-
rid hair" either destructive fire or frost, lust
as the ignorant most dread one or the other.
That the only road for the African to travel
to the Pacific ocean of temporal and eternal
felicity leads over the happy valley of the
plantations of the south, but whether through
Carolina, Louisiana, Arizona, or some other
latitude OF the slave countries, is still unset
tied.
That the Democratic party is in possession
of the Delphic Oracle of the present age, and
that the crazy Pythoness pronounces equivo-
cal vaccinations from her tripod in Tammany
Hail.
That Friday is an unlucky day, on which
no work or enterprise should be commenced.
That an equinoctial storm accompanies the
passage Of the sun across the line in March
and December.
That the blooming of pear tree in Au.
tumn prognosticates the death of one of the
family Of the owner.
That the Democratic party is the friend Of
tariff, education, and public improvements.
These are all vulgar fallacies some of II EN-
only silly, while Others are injurious, because
leading to false conclusions and erroneous
conduct.-Netcark Daily AdUertissr.