Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-06
Lunar FancieS.
All the Year Around


seeing the first new moon of the year, if
you take off one stocking and run across
field, you will find between two of your
toes a hair which will be the color of that
of the lover you are to have. In Berk-
shire the proceeding is more simple, for
you merely look at the new moon and
says:
New moon, new moon, hail thee.
BY all the virtue in thy bolY,
Grant this night that may see
He who my true love shall be-
The result is guaranteed to be as sat
isfactory as it is in Ireland. where the
people are said to point to the new moon
with knife and say;
New moon, true morrow be true now to me
That !, to morrow, my true love may see
In Yorkshire, again, the practice was
to catch the reflection of the new moon
in looksng- glass, the number of re-
Elections signifying the number of years
which will elapse before marriage. All
of these superstitions are suggestive of
that which Taylor calls "one of the most
instructive astrological doctrins' -
namely that of the sympathy of grow
ing and declining nature with the wax
ing and waning moon. Tylor says that
a classical precept was to set eggs under
the hen at new moon, and that Lithu-
anian precept was to wean boys on a
waxing and girls on waning moon to
make the boys strong and the girls deli
cate On the same grounds, he says,
Orkneymen object to marrying except
with a growing moon, and Mr.. Dyer says
that in Cornwall, when "a child is born in
the interval between an old and a new
moon it is believed he will never live to
manhood.
A new-rich woman from Kentucky Is
said to have an unique social experience
at a fashionable winter resort. She was
bright handsome woman, but she dressed
so magnifcently that no one at the hotel
would have anything to do with her. A
| lady from Philadelphia kindly gave her
the hint of simplicity, which she adopted
readily and laid away her new gowns and
diamonds. When she appeared in simple,
well-worn costumes, under the patronage
of the Philadelphia lady, she was soon
on the road to social success.
Start for the Train or Boat
In good season, and don't forget to take with you
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which will revive
and benefit you when faegued; will nullty the
I hurtful effects OF water contaminated with zinc
from the ice cooler, StaEaaBt ana pracklSn, re-
/ leve Indigestion proSlced 10y meals OF uncertain
4 wholesomeness, hastily boted at odd times IN
railway stations, and protect you from the inlq-
ence Of vitiated malarious air and through
draughts To the travelling public this admirable
safe guard and specific is rendered in conyenient
I and agreeable shape An ordinary ships medi-
cine chest contains no such comprehensive and re-
\ liable remedy, a fact wen understood by mari
/ ners The commercial traveller, tourist, emf
4 grant miner and western pioneer, all appreciate
the value OF the Bittefs. II cures dyspepsia. COS
/ tiveneeS, liver complaint, malarial disorders,
+ inactivity Of the kidneys, and is fine nerve
I tonic.
4 The half-clad citizens of the Bermudas
+ have an idea of the eternal fitness of
/ things. for they, it is said, import for
/ their own use largely potatoes from the
1 United States at g a barrel and send US
potatoes of their own growth at from Sl5
to $50 per barrel.
/ Neuralgia and kindred diseases, prompt
/ " yield TO the immediate action of st.
Jacobs Oil, the pain conqueror.
I It seems strange during this warm
weather to read that stages between Green
7 vile and Kineo, Ne, still cross Moosehead
! Lake on the ice.
The harmful and fatal results attending
the use of cough mixtures containing
morphia, opium and other poisons, are
daily becoming more frequent. It Is for
+ this reason that Red Star Cough Cure has
/ received the unqualified endorsement Of
physicians and Boards of Health every
where, as purely vegetable compo1 nd,
entirely free from al narcotics. Price,
+ twenty-five cents.
The value ST the hardware produced in
the United States each year is now about
S600oo0o9 and nearly half If il i made
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