Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-08-29
CLEVELAND LOCAL AMONG THE
FORTUNE TELLERS.

FORTUNE TELLERS. -
The very clever local OF the Cleveland Plain
d.alsr who often figures under the cognomen
s ..Arteuius Ward" has been on a visit to
,ope travelling fortune tellers now in that city.
and furnishes the following as the result
We urbanely informed the lady with the
..Csui on her face" that we had eslled TO have
our fortune told, and she said, " hand out the
money" This preliminary being settled,
Madame b. (who is o tall, shsrp-eyed, dark
featured and angular woman, dressed in pain.
fully positive col rs, and heavily loaded with
gold chain and mammoth jewelry of various
Kinds said Jupiter indicated powerfully that
we we're = slim constitution, which came down
20 us on our father side. Wherein our con-
s,itutiOn was not slim, so it came down to us
from our mothers side. 90 Is this so2" and we
said it was. YES, continued the witch, :" I
know d twas. You can't deceive Jupiter, me,
nor any other pianlek You may swim over
Hells Point same as Leander did but you can't
deceive the planicks. Give me yer hand,
Times amt so easy as they has been. So, So
but tis temp'ry. T'wont last long Times
will be easy soon. You may be trampled on to
once or twict, but you'll rekiver You have
talsnk, me child. You can make Congresser
ifyOu likes to be. I'VE said we would be ex-
cuSed If 1t was all the same to her You kin
be lawyer. We thanked her but said we
would rather retain our present good moral
character. You kin be a soldier. You have
courage enough to go to Hostrian wars and
kill the French. We informed her that We
bad already murdered some ''English"l You
won't have much money till you're thirty
three years OF old. Then you'll have large
sans; forty thousand dollars perhaps. Look
Oat for it. We promised we would You
have travelled some. and you will travel more,
which will make your travels more extern
siver than they have been. You will 90 to
CalifOrny by way Of Pixies Pick. ISame
r,ute taken by Horace Greeley.l If moth
ing happens on to you you won { meet with no
accidents, and you will get through pleasant
which you otherwise will not do under all cir
eumstances, however, which doth happens 10
all both great and small likewise to the rich as
also the poor. Hearken to me- There has
been deaths in your family, and there will be
more But reserve your constitution and you
will live to be 20 years old. Me child HER hair
will be black-black as the Raying's wing.
Likewise black will also be her eyes, and she
will be as different from you are as night and
day. Look out for the darkish man He's
your rival. Beware of the darkish man I'VE
promised that we'd introduce funeral the
moment we encountered him. My child,
there Is more sunshine than clouds for We, and
send all yer friends up here. A word before
you goes Expose not yourself. Your eyes are
ssller which is on account of bile on your sys.
tim. Some don't have bile on their systims
which their eyes is not saller. This bile as
eends down to You from many generation,
which Is in their graves and peace to their
ashes.
MADAME CROMProN
We proceeded directly to Madame Cromp-
ton, the other fOrtune-teller She has rooms
in the Farmers Hotel. She was driving an
extensive business, and we were forced to wait
half an hour or 90 for a chance to see her
Madame @. is Of the English persuasion, and
he6
her H. She is small in statue, but consider
ably inclined to cOrpuleney, and her round
face IS continually wreathed in smiles remind
Ing one OF a new tin pan bssking in the noon day
sun She took greasy pack ofcommon playing
cards, and requested Us to 'cut them in tbreeS
which we did. She spread them out on the
table before her and said: .'Sir, to you which
L speaks. You have been terribly crossed in
love and your art as been much panged But
you will get all over il, and marry n light
complicated gal with rayther reddish hair.
Before some time you'll have a legarcy fall
down to you, mostly in sOlick jold There
may be lawsuit about it. and you NAV be
suoprlsoned as witness, but you'll git il
mostly In solik gold, which you will keep in
ehists, ard you must look out for them I'VE
sald We would keep a skinned optic on them
chists You as an enemy, and he lightish
man. He wants to defraud you out of your
onesty. He is tellink lies about you now, in
the 'oPes Of crushing yourself. weak in
ventiOn of '-the opposition.'l You never did
nOthin' bad: Your art is right You ave
great taste for hOsses and like TO stay with 'em.
Mister to you 50 sez Gard against the light
l'h man and all will be we'll >" The superna-
tGral Del g tnen took an oval shaped chunk of
giass which she called a stOne) and requested
Us to hang on to it. She looked into il and
taid: If you're not keerful when You git
your money you'll lose it, but which yether-
wise you will not, and fifty cents is as cheap as
KIN afford to tell anybody's fortune, and no
great shakes made then, as the Lord i'm Heying
knows" 80
mere Is no burlesque or exaggeration about
,ne above. We have failed, indeed, To give
nan OF the senseless rigmarole as il fell from
the lips Of these shallow humbugs. But their
rooms are almost continually crouded-pot
oiely oy the weak-minded, for many persons
Heo are popularity supposed to be gifted with
somcient sagacity to go under cover when it
iains' nave been known to consult these ss As
know oN' -"