The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-22

cannot say how much you must believe
of it, The person who will carefully
study the wrinkles, burrows, lines and hol-
lows in the hands will be able to tell for
tunes as we'll as any modern gypsy.
IF the palm of the hand be long, and
the fingers we'll proportional, etc, not
soft. but rather hard, it denotes the per-
son to be ingenious, changeable and given
to theft and vice.
IF the hand be hollow, solid and well
knit in the JOINTS, it predicts long life.
| but if over-twarted it denotes short life.
Oh erve the finger of Hercury-that is
the little finger; if the end of it exceeds
t he first joint of the ring finger, such a
man will rule in his own house and his
wife will be pleasing and obedient to him !;
but if it be short and does not reach the
joint he will have shrew, and she will
he boss.
Broad nails show the person to be BASH
full, fearful, but of gentle nature.
Narrow nails denote the person to be
inclined to mischief, and to do injury to
his neighbors
Long nails show person to be good
natured, but distrustful, and loving recon
Citation rather than differences.
Oblique mai s signify deceit and want
of courage.
Lit lie round nails denote obstinacy, an
ger and hatred.
| If they are crooked at the extremity,
they denote pride and iereeness.
Round nails show a choleric person,
but soon reconciled, honesty, lover of
sacred science.
Fleshy nails denote the person to be
mild in temper, idle and lasy.
| Pale and black nails show the person
to be very deceitful to his neighbors, and
subject 20 many diseases.
| Red and marked nails signify choleric
and martial nature, given to cruelty; and
az many little marks az there arc, speak
80 many evil desires.
Edwin Booth has never been in Wash
| ington since the death of his brother,
alter the assassination of President Lin
coin Before he left Montreal on his
last trip TO Washington, Wilkes Booth
deposited $4,000 in gold in the Bank of
Montreal 1t is there now. His mother
has legal right to draw the money, but
she refuses to do so, and her living SONS
refuse TO allow her to touch it. There it
remains, and there it will remain until
the time provided by the law for its re-
tention has expired Then it will go to
the British government, and become a
part of the fortune of the crown. The
officers of the bank are anxious TO get rid
Of the deposit, and have several times
written to the relatives of the depositor
| The latter have been uniformly firm in
refusing it, but they have never given
any reason for so doing. en
There is an elegant brick house in
Portsmouth, N. H., which cost 800, 900.
It is surrounded by an iron fence, but
the owner, who died some time since,
never would make up his mind as TO the
design of his gate. For several years the
stone posts have been hung with pieces
of rope, holding an old ladder, and the
widow, who desires to follow ont her
late husbands wishes, renews the ladders
as they get bVok n, and keeps up the
plan oi Tue ueparted.
A little girl had beautiful head OF
hair, which hung in "clustering curs !"
down on her neck. One hot summer day,
she went up stairs and cut all the curls
IF Coming down she met her mother,
who exclaimed, with surprise, MARY |
what have you been doing to your hair?' |
To which she responded that she had cut
it off and laid it away in her box, but
hat she intended to put it on again to-
morrow, as aunt Nancy did
A newspaper was recently received in
London from Paris by balloon mall,
which was marvel in its way. It was
not much larger than an inch and half
square, and contained a photograph re-
duction of seven printed columns of news
cut from the Paris journals The con
tents were decipherable by the aid of
very powerful magniying glass and d
strong light.
During late sortie Of the French from
Paris, a trumpeter of the Tenth battalion
of Bavarian Jagers managed to creep un-
observed into u covered arbor, on the |
flank of the advancing columns of the
French and at the first check which
their onset received from the Germans
he boldly sounded the French signal for
retreat, loud and long, which being
taken up by the enemy's trumpeters, soon
caused a general and hasty retrogade
movement of the French toward Paris.
The staff trumpeter of the Bavarians had
picked up, during previous battle, one
of the signal books, used by French
trumpeters, and had taught his subor
dinate this useful little air to be used in
emergencies.
One method a French cook adopts in
frying is to immerse the article to be
cooked in boiling fat--with an emphasis
on the present participal and the philo-
sophical principle is, SO completely to
crisp every pore, 1T the first moment or
two of immersion, as effectually to seal
the interior against the intrusion of
grease particles; it can then remain as