Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-13
OUR MASTER DIGIT.
strange Signifcances OF the Human Thumb
1t Has Served Many Curious Uses.

Strange sisnihcances of the Human Thumb
1t Has Served Many Curious Uses.
From Chamber Journal.
Would-be hypnotzers should avoid trying
conclusions with persons possessing longer
1ointed thumbs than their own, for if there ID
any truth in palmistry the strength of ones
will depends upon the formation Of the thumb:
the will power Of its owner being great or little
| according to the length or want of length of its
upper joint.
How the thumbs Of Roman holiday makers
| we're formed mattered nothing to the defeated
gladiator, whose fate hung upon their being
| bent forward or backward, a method of decree
| ing life or death to which, perhaps we owe a
man at another's mercy being said to be under
| his thumb.
The Irish hero, Fingal. had the felicity
to be under his own thumb, that member
serving MIN as a danger signal, aching In Pc
cuilar way whenever trouble impended, when
he had only to put it into his mouth to become
| Immediately instructed how 10 overcome the
difficulty of the hour. So, by the pricking of
her thumbs telling her something wicked this
way comes" did the weird sister know of Mac
beths approach before her ears caught his
football.
When a new member was initiated into the
Westphalian Vehmgerichte, and swore to keep
s.L seoiots Oh the society from "iie anu chtto,
father and mother, sister and brother, from fire
and sword, from the things warmed by the
sun or nourished by the rain, he did with
the thumb and two fingers of his right hand
upon the cross nit OF SWORD. AN oatn SO
.ah9h vas held lrreVocaDie, ana not 10 DO an
nuiicu py even inc pope himsei.
IN 0iden tunes II was the pressure OF the
thumb upon the wax of q documents seal
tnas maze the oceo vaild ana oindlng IN
sa.;aa anu IA VerOai contracts Ine thumo
ia 1ts we bargain. uoths ana loerlans COM
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oa Sii otuer ior ever anu Jay.
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thnmh and il ia stitI Tho n;ot,a VII -.
tool When sew;n., nos roSSa.oI na: sai1ss
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or;oinaIIv called tbat n.osn, n..;'Ia as ~ was
unon the tbnmb not tho q - . Mas moih
nese dentist disda;n;na 49, b. GU we 'apn
ances f;nds his tbnmS Cd ga III appii-
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