Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-03-23

riagc to the Duchess dc Tallyrand,
formerly Miss Anna Gould, was re
Gently annulled by the church of
Rome. II is known that the Count
de Castellane made several calls on
Mr. oMrgan when the latter was at
the Italian capital, but Boni denies
that these visits related in any way
to the inancier's philanthropic daugH-
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cion and dislike upon our own decen-
NAL census.
1t is unlucky to kill "harvestman"
that is, one of those long legged
spiders which one sees scrambling
about. perfectly independent Of cob
webs: if you do kill one there will be
bad harvest
II there are supersttions about ami
mails. it is satisfactory to find them
leaning to the side of humanity; but
the poor hedge hog finds to his cost
that the absurd notion of his sucking
the teats of cows serves as a pretext
for the most cruel treatment.
The saying about magpies is well
ltnown-one, sorrow; two, mirth;
three. wedding; four, death. "And
it is a curious thing said a man
from the rural districts of England.
Il have proved 1t, for as ! was on my
way to be married. travelling upon a
coach top to ella i'm my bride the next
day, three magpies-ncither more
nor less-flew across the road"
Bourne remarks that "lf an owl.
which Is reckoned most abominable
and unlucky bird sends forth Its
hoarse and Cismal voice. it Is the
omen of the approach of some terri
BILE thing; that some dire calamity
and some great misfortune is near at
hand" 1t is thus mentioned by
Chaucer:
This rueful Strich still wayting on the
beere,
The whistler siril, that whose heares
doth die.
The Romans appear to have had
most determined views on owls and
their significance. julius Obsequens,
in his Book on Prodigies," shows
that little before the death of Com
modus Antonius, the emperor. an owl
was observed to sit upon the top OF
his chamber, both at Rome and at
Lanuvium Xiphoilins. speaking of the
prodigies that went before the death
of Augustus, says that the owl sang
upon the top of the Curia.
Dogs Porent Death.
The author of "Arcana Micocosmi''
aflirms that dogs by their bowling
portent death and calamities is plaine
by historic and experience" Shakes.
peare, in his Henry VI. dares to use
the custom as an accomplishment of
birth
The owl shrieked at thy birth, an evil
sign,
| The night-crow cry'd aboding luckless
time,
Dogs how'd and hideous tempests
shook down trees.
THE British Apollo" in 170S, ans
| wering the question, Whether the
dogs bowling may be a fatal prognos-
| tic, but 'tis probable that out of a
sense of sorrow for the sickness or
absence of his master, or the like
that creature may be so disturbed.
A Bedfordshire woman's son had
been stung all over with bees. And
no wonder" she said "he never told
them he was going to put them in a
new home. and everybody knows that
| before you go to put bees into a new
| ONE you must knock three times on
| the top of the i've and tell 'em. same
as you must tell 'em when anybody
dies in the 'ouse. Ef you don't. they'll
| he spiteful, for bees is understanding
creatures, an knows what you say to
them"
Black Cats.
Black cats for luck. That is an old
and an equally modern superstition
| A superstitious belief in cats. black
and otherwise. is of great antoquty
Among the Egyptians the animals
we're regarded with utmost reverence
and their mummified remains are
frequently found in the same tombs
as their worshippers. In witchcraf
and soothsaying. cats have always
played no unimportant part.
The cuckoo has long been consid.
cred as the bird of bood omen. Some
years ago. in the north of England
boys on hearing the first cuckoo
would take out of their pockets ths
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