The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-16
WARNINGS AND 0MENS.
poRrENTS OF GOOD AND EVIL
LUCK.

c+ranee Fulf1llment of Dreems-Mys-
+or;ous Warnings Of Death-Curious
superstitions Which Are Piously Be-
ueved-The Unlucky Opal.
From the Chicago Herald.
"Talk of superstitions, said lady to me,
-ot long since, "why doesn't some one col
1oot information about the unlucky opal and
rive it to the publica"
"vou believe, then, the opal to be I'M
lucky'" asked
"See bere," she said, pointing to her ear
,.,rgs-diminutive globes of pink and yell
low fire, "Ive had nothing but misfor-
.une. sickness and unhappiness since 1
bought these wretched stones. I'd give
Them away, only hate to send bad luck
with them"
"Mv case is not singular one, she con-
.;,rad "I knew a lady whose husband
Ave her set of opals. Then trouble be-
.ar Two children died and sickness came
q Tar. and from being robust woman she
lame a confirmed invalid. Finally she
gied and her opals were given to her sis
Wv The legacy of ill-luck went with the
;oIve,s. and this lady, after unsuccessfully
io@ring the husband of her sister to take
tSeIT back. finally disposed of them to a
Sooler at much less than their intrinsic
worth. Pm bound to be rid of mine,"
che concluded, ''if l have to throw them
away"
ma she had exchanged her earring and pin
for 40 noonstone, which was bound to
bring her luck. l was repeating this cir
.cumstance to a gentleman acquaintance.
He laughed rather sheepishly, and lifted his
four-in-hand cravat, showing under it an
~ have had nothing but trouble and
had luck since l bought this con-
founded thing" he said. So the noble
animal man is as fidgety the nervous sex,
Is il generally known that if you do not
wish your dreams to come true you must
NOT tell them before breakfast?
Apopos of dreams, | can tell curious
story The daughter of lawyer dreamed
thenight before the beginning Of famous
trial in which her father was TO conduct
the defense, of a strange, large building,
filed with groups of men standing here and
there There was much talk of a great
serpent concealed in that building. of which
many we're frightened. At last she
dreamed she looked down over a stairway
and saw living in great coil heap the mon
strous reptile dead.
man standing by said, Green" Green was
the name Of lawyer associated with her
father in the defense.
The next morning she told her dream, at
which her father laughed She went with
him to witness the trial held in the court
house of the county in which they lived. 1t
was her first experience of this kind, and
she had never been inside the court house.
As she entered the big, gloomy halls and
saw the old fashioned, winding staircase,
she gave start, and turning to her father
said:
why, this is the place dreamed of last
night"
It only remains to add that her father
and his assistant Green won the hard
fought case and saved young man from
ten years in the penitentiary.
You must on no account sing before
breakfast OF you'll surely weep before
supper. If, however, you are so care
less as to forget yourself, even to the ex-
tent of humming bar or two, you must
quickly say ''bread and butter" This
will exercise any baneful influence and
drive away any evil spirits that may be
lurking about.
Should you trip over loose plank or stone
in walking along the street, by all means
return, and coolly and deliberately step
over the stumbling block, or you will have
bad luck through the day.
Undressing yourself in the morning, should
you by any chance put on garment wrong
side out, on no account turn lt-that pro
ceeding will bring confusion worse than
DEATH upon you.
Should you blacken your finger, guests
will surely come. Nearer the thumb,
sooner they'll come" Dropping dish-cloth
is also a forerunner of company.
The peacock's feathers, the open umbrella
IN doors, are well-known harbingers of mis-
fortune. happened to be buying an UNI
brella one day; near me was lady bent on
the same purpose. She started to raise an
umbrella, the better to examine its good
points, when, suddenly recollecting herself,
she handed it to the clerk, saying:
Please open it for me, daren't do it,"
Should the rain fall into an open grave,
there will be another death in the same
family within year. Should dead body
lie in the house over Sunday, another death
will soon follow. Should body be brought
from train to home, and in its transpor-
tatlon be carried past a cemetery-that also
means death.
Seeing the moon over the right shoulder
all know means good luck, but few know
Just the correct thing to do when one is
fortunate enough to catch the tickle moon
in the right position. Twas walking with q
dear superstitious old lady one evening
when she suddenly stopped, hesitated a
AlOllouJ, anu UU6u, W Ill oFdu
with surprising violence and aim three
times directly at the new moon.
When asked an explanations she told me
that one must always wish on seeing the
new moon, but unless the wish were
accompanied by triple expectoration nc
good would come to the wisher. How funny
shat was
Breaking looking-glass Is considered by
many people as fearful calamity. "No
luck for seven year." say Interpretations.
FOR their benefit let me tell them that the
writer of this broke looking-glass on the
morning she sailed for Europe, and she ex-
peFlenced no trouble during her trip, re-
burned in good health, and found all her
friends enjoying the same.
warnings and omens are very curious
ana lnexplicable. Every one remembers
tae mysterious call of Rochester to "Jane
Eyre" in Charlotte Bronte's novel l can
seh Of circumstance of which positively
know equally as strange. A plain, practi-
cal tter-of-fact woman, with not the
ssnghtest leaning toward occultism in any
FORM, was canning fruit in her kitchen one
Jay Suddenly she heard distinctly the
voice of her sailor son calling her. "Mother,
mother, mother" So near it seemed that
neP hrst thought was that her son had I'M
expectedly returned, and leaving her work
suuerSn into her sitting room crying out
nut Harry had come, and could not believe
ouG mat he was there hidden somewhere,
malVlhg to spring out at her. 1t
u June her son was lying dangerously i'll
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