The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-08-17

You will meet with c disappointment IT you start to go out and have to return for something you forgot, unless you sit down for minute when you return.
 You can tell your fortune by the sensations of your own body. When your right ear burns some one is speaking good of you, and when the left burns 1t is evil. You even discover who the gossipers are by moistening the lobe of the warm ear with saliva and naming person. If the name you guess is correct, the will cool at once. If your nose itches, you will have news or company. If your right eye itches you will shed tears and If your left eye itches you will laugh. A quick ring ing in either car that overwhelms sound is called death knell, and precedes news of death If your inner itches at the elbow joint, you will have an insleep or outseep. That is; some one will sleep at your house who not accustomed to sleep ing there member of the family will be away all night. If your leg itches at the back under the knee, you will go on journey, and if the sole of your foot itches you will tread strange ground. If your right hand itches you will shake hands with friend your left hand, you will get money. There Is an old saying about this: "Scratch it on wood and it'll come good" That many are aware of Pve seen men who ought to know better hunt around for wood to scratch their hands on and not finding any available, take lead pencil out of their pockets and rub their hands with 1t. A fair Washington belle will not have an umbrella with out wooden handle, because she says, she al ways wants some wood around to scratch her hand on Even the spots on ones finger nails come in for a share of superstition. They are called gifts, and 1t is said
 A gift on the thum b IS sure to come,
 While gift or nng ger Is long to finger.
 It is unlucky to cut the finger nails on Friday, Saturday or Sunday If you cut them on Friday you are playing into the devils hand on Satur- day you are inviting disappointment, and on Sum- day you will have bad luck all the week. There are people who suffer all sorts of gloomy forbod- ngs if they absent mindedly trim away bit of nail on any of these days, and who will suffer all the inconvenience of overgrown finger nails sooner then cut them after ThuredaY.
 The shamrock or four-leaf clover Is prized as one of the greatest of ck-bringing charms Girls will hunt through long summer days for the little green emblem of fortune, and when they find 1t, which is rare enough, they treasure it like jewel or first love letter. Few houses are without the good-luck horseshoe, although not every one knows how to hang it to keep good luck-with the open part up that the luck won't run of the points.
 If the things that men carry in their pockets on account of their superstitions could be piled up, one on top of the other, they would make & monu- ment higher than the Eiffel tower and twice as curious. Buckeyes potatoes buttons, bits of metal and rabbits feet go to make up the list The sum- moon and stars come in for their share, too. There is the old couplet Happy Is the corpse tbat the rains
 To see the new moon for the first time over your left shoulder portends trouble through all the month, while to it before you is promise of a prosperous and happy month. To the maid who wants to push the veil aside and peer into the future it lends assistance if the appearance of the new moon she will before tiring kneel at her window and, looking up at the moon, say earnestly:
 New moon. true moon, come tell unto Before this time Who my true love will Dc? If hs clothing do
 And his children do bear,
 hll'A' 1RS %f,S Rsf.y si. f.e: %sy ys 1:' s:s him | If his clothing don't And his children don't bear, | Sad and sorrowful him With his back to 1 Then let her crawl into bed without light and she will her true lover in her dreams that night | If you make wish on the first star you see at night you will get 1t, but you must frame your wish thus:
 Starlight starbright, first brightstar I see to- night wish you may, wish you may, I wish -"