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SUPERSTITIONS.
Over One Million Distributed
CAPITAL PRIZE, $300 000.
ACTORS’ AND SAILORS’ DREADS.
Louisiana State Lottery.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1889.
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Curious Fanaticisms of Various
Classes of People.
which the sailors keep as fetiches, and in the
storm, birds are swept
remedy for you.
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The Widespread Belief That Dreams Fore-
cast Events—Some of the Fetiches Treas-
ured by Society 'Women—The Fatalism
of Brokers—Superstitions About Human
Hair.
CHAS. SCHEELE,
PROPRIETOR,
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100,000
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50,000
60,000
100,000
Always in the Lead.
Our expert piano polisher has just ar-
rived and we are now prepared to take
orders for polishing pianos. Every piano
should be thoroughly cleaned and pol-
ished at this time of the season. Send in
your orders at once. C. Janke & Co.
107 and 109 Tremont street.
Telephone No. 460.
We, the undersigned Banks and Bankers will pay
all prizes drawn in the Louisiana State Lotteries
which may be presented at our counters:
R, M. WALMSLEY, Pres. Louisiana Nat’l Bank.
PIERRE LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank.
A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Nat’l Bank.
CARL KOHN. Pres. Union National Bank.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
OFFICE: COTTON CO’S BUILDING.
Mecham street, between 21st and 22d Streets
Incorporated by the Legislature in 1868 for Edu-
cational and Charitable purposes, and its franchises
made a part of the present State Constitution in
1879 by an overwhelming popular vote.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings take place
monthly, and the Grand Quarterly Drawings regu-
larly every three months (March, June, September
and December)
Notice.
Passengers from Texas to St. Louis
and all points east, northeast and south-
east should travel via Paris, Texas and
the popular “Frisco. Line.”
For particulars address Geo. A. Knight,
Texas passenger agent, “Frisco. Line,’
Dallas, Texas.
—The old and popular “ State of
Texas,” manufactured by Colosia Bro.,
holds its own as the best cigar for the
money in the market. *
Sleepess ni ghts, make miserable by
W® do hereby certify that we supervise the ar-
rangements for all the Monthly and Quarterly Draw-
ings of the Louisiana State Lotterj Company, and
in person manage and control the Drawings them-
selves, and that the same are conducted with hon-
esty, fairness and in good faith towards all parties,
and we authorize the company to use this certificate
in its advertisements.”
G. T. BEAUREGARD, I
J. a . EARLY, f Commissioners,
Having purchased of the Americas'
Well W >rks and M. E. Chapman their
Tools and Patent Rights for sinking Ar-
tesian Wells on this island, we hereby
notify all who contemplate using said
patents or Tools on this island that we
will defend our rights to the full exteut
J. W. BYRNES & Co.
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HERE are certain 1
superstitions that '
are as implicitly 1
believed in as the '
most positive facts '
and material dem-
onstrations. Of the
superstitions of ac-
tors, gamblers, sail-
ors, savages, might
be written tomes as
ponderous as altar
missals. It has got-
ten so that every
society woman has a fetich, and men who are
otherwise of the hard sense order carry in
their trousers horse chestnuts and raw pota-
toes. Some of the superstitions most preva-
lent today were known centuries ago; indeed,
many of them can be traced back to pre-
Christian times, and some of the most noted
men of the world have been thoroughly im-
bued with tho most flimsy fanaticisms. Some
of the most curious superstitions of various
classes of persons have been here collected
from various sources. None are odder than
those of the stage.
SUPERSTITIONS OF THE STAGE.
Theatrical companies are, as a rule, com-
posed of the most superstitious mortals living.
On one occasion the manager of a well known
New York theatre was standing beside the
entrance to the theatre, talking to the ticket
taker, and the first person to present himself
for admission was a man having a defect in
his eye, commonly known as squint eyes. No
sooner did the manager see him approaching
the entrance to the theatre than he placed
the tips of his thumbs and forefingers together
and spit three times through the aperture
thus formed. He then stepped up to the un-
fortunate individual and engaged him in con-
versation for fully ten minutes, or until one
or two others had entered the auditorium,
when he seemed greatly relieved, and allowed
the possessor of the Ben Butler eyes to enter
the theatre. The manager subsequently ex-
plained that, if he had allowed that squint
syed man to be the first to enter the theatre,
some awful accident would surely have hap-
pened.
A manager, actor or actress will invariably
manage, by hook or by crook, when meeting
with a humpbacked man, to pass his or her
hand over the hump, which is supposed to
possess such a charm that good luck will fol-
low them for days to come. This supersti-
tion, by the way, is also shared by gamblers.
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Trustee’s Sale.
Bv virtue of power vested in us as trustees under
a deed of trust executed by B. Tiernan, dated the
DAY OF APRIL, 1889, commencing at 11 o clock
a. m„ sell at public auction, in front of the Court
House door of Galveston county, to the highest
bidder for cash, all that certain tract or parcel of
land lying and being in the county of Brazoria, in the
State of Texas, consisting of six hundredand eigh-
teen acres and one-half (618J4) acres, more or less,
and being all that portion of a lower third of an en-
tire league granted by the Mexican Government to
William Harris after deducting 781J4 acras out of
said lower third, sold and conveyed by Jared E.
Groce and Leonard H. Groce to Ben Fort Smith,
and after also deducting 66 acres conveyed by B
Tiernan to A. C. Barnes, February 17, 1881. i he
said league was granted by ,he Mexican Govern-
ment to William Harris on the day JnjY’
1824, Patent No. 74, Vol. 1, Old Abstract, No. 67.
The said 618^ acres bekg those portions of the
lower third of said league acquired by B. Tiernan
from the assignee of L. W. Groce m bankruptcy by
deed dated October 28,1868, recorded in book L,”
pages 608 and 609, Brazoria county; and from Leon-
ard W. Groce, Phillip S. Clark and wife and R. R.
Peebles and wife by de<d. dated December 8,lo71,
recorded in book “M,” pages 647, 648 and 649; and I
by release from said Jared E. Groce April 10, 18<2,
recorded book ‘‘N,” pages 36 and 37 Brazoria
county; less the said 66 acres conveyed by Her-
nan to A. C. Barnes; and will make due conveyance
to the purchaser, with full warranty, binding the
said B. Tiernan, his heirs, etc. The said trust deed
was given to secure the payment of a promissory
note, executed by the said Tieman to the order of
Edward E. Parker, dated 19th day of May, 188.r, and
payable twelve months after date, at the office oi
Adoue & Lobit, in the city of Galveston for tweniy-
six hundred dollars, with interest at the rate of
eight per cent per annum fron date. The said note
. and interest remains wholly due and unpaid, and tne
l-ale will be made at the request of the said Parker,
who is the holder of said note.
B. ADOUE,
> JOSEPH LOBIT5,
Trustees. ’
100,000 Tickets at §20 each; Halves, §10! Quarters,
$5; Tenths, $2; Twentieths, §1.
LIST OF PRIZES:
1 PRIZE OF §300,000 is
1 PRIZE OF 100,600 is....
1 PRIZE OF 50,000 is ....
1 PRIZE OF 25,000 is ...
2 PRIZES OF 10,000 are ..
5 PRIZES OF 5,000 are ...
25 PRIZES OF 1,000 are ...
100 PRIZES OF — --
200 PRIZES OF
500 PRIZES OF
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TELLS HER FORTUNE WITH A PACK OF CARDS. I
told the boy to go to No. —, and resumed my
reading. In a few minutes the boy returned
and said there was no response. I looked over
the rooms that had been taken, and found
that no one had been assigned to the room in
question. I didn’t think anything more
about it then, for the wires frequently get
disarranged, and one push on the button will
uncover the numbers of three or four rooms.
“A little later the same number was un-
covered again, and I called to the boy and
gave him the pass key, telling him to go into
the room and light the gas and inspect it. If
there is anything to make a negro’s teeth
chatter it is to go on such an errand. How-
ever, he went, and in about ten minutes re-
turned with the information that the room
was unoccupied. The number dropped again,
but I said nothing more, thinking now that
the wires were disarranged. I went off watch
and went to bed.
“When I came down and picked ‘up the
morning paper, the first thing I saw was the
announcement of the death of Senator Logan.
Then I recalled tho fact that he always occu-
pied the room, the number of which had
acted so strangely, when he was here. I am
not superstitious, but I confess that I thought
it a very strange occurrence. I told the same
thing to ray doctor, and he laughed so heart-
ily about it that 1 have never told it since till
now.”
The commonest superstition regarding
dreams is that to dream of gold predicts joy;
silver, sorrow; of flying, a journey; of light-
ning, marriage; of killing serpents, victory,
of blindness, poverty; of combing the hair,
sickness; of gray hair, death; of flies, ene-
mies; of Cupid, love, but if he breaks his
bow, you are to be an old maid or a widow.
To dream of white flowers is a good omen; of
yellow flowers, you are to attend a funeral.
A lady tells the writer that through her
whole life all her various afflictions have
been foreshadowed by dreaming of an infant.
The “child dream,” as she calls it, gives her
“warning,” and she begins to droop like a
flower that is partly crushed while waiting
for a new baptism of sorrow. Perhaps
Jacob’s dream of the angels and the ladder
is a sufficient foundation for superstitions re-
garding dreams.
A New York woman, remarkable for her
unique literary gifts and her social charms,
carefully preserves a square chunk of the
great Cainese wall, which she is convinced is
imbued with some occult power. Why or
wherefore she could not tell you to save her
soul.
Another, when she rises in the morning,
and before she begins her toilet, tells her for-
tune with a pack of cards, and in accordance
with their cabalistic significance she is guided
in her actions throughout the day. She has
unfailingly kept up this habit for years, and
believes firmly in its importance.
—Henry’s electric bell rings three
minutes before the curtain rises. Take
a lunch, no possible chance of missing
the performance. o
Remember That the presence of Generals
Beauregard, and Early, who are in charge of the
drawings is a guarantee of absolute fairness and in-
teority”tliat the chan es are all equal, and that no
one can possibly divine what number will draw a
Erize.
Pemember That the paymentof all Prizes is
GWUIANTBED BY FOUR NATIONAL BANKS
of New Orleans, and that Tickets are signed by the
President of an Institution whosa chartered rights
are recognized in the highest Courts; therefore,.be-
ware of anv imitations or annonvmons schemes.
—Fresh shipment of creamery and
dairy butterat Hanna, Waters & Go’s.
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B New Orleans, La.
of their superstitions, however, are of an ex-
tremely gloomy nature. They interpret the
simplest incidents as the precursors of disas-
ter or death. A landsman who is unfamiliar
with or scoffs at the fanaticisms of sailors is
held in unmitigated and expressed contempt
by them. They do not believe that the
change from a fleshly to a spiritual state will
have the effect of altering their ideas in the
slightest degree. Many of their conceptions,
however, are not altogether without founda-
tion, as the loss of the steamship Friday many
years ago will demonstrate.
This vessel, a large ironclad, built in Scot-
land at great expense, was, in defiance of su-
perstition, named after the unlucky day.
Her officers were capable and experienced
seamen, and thoroughly adapted for such a
task as the trial voyage of an ocean steamer.
The Friday set sail on Friday. When near-
ing the Cape of Good Hope on a Friday a
few weeks afterward she sank, and the entire
crew was drowned. Many old sailors say
that their fear of going to sea on Friday
dates from this catastrophe. In the quarters
of sailors you will find horseshoes, palm like
leaves, nails and many other curious articles
virtues of which they have most implicit be-
lief. If, during a
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HE CRIED LIKE A BABY,
aboard a vessel they are never harmed, as
the sailors believe that they are the meta-
morphosed spirits of dead companions. All
of the birds, especially the petrel and sea
gull, are held sacred by the sailors. A beau-
tif ul mirage, which to tho eye of the landsman
is the source of inspiration and wonder, fills
the sailors with dread. They believe that it 6.----------------------
betokens an early death to some of its ob- when a black cat wanieci before her during
servers. They are decidedly averse to hav- - ■ " t -mt-
ing corpses on board, and there are many
cases on record where the crew has become i
mutinous and refractory until the corpses (
were thrown overboard.
QUEER INDIAN BELIEFS. (
The Totonac Indians, inhabiting the region
of Barlovento, or the central part of Tierra
Caliente, the warm lands of the state of Vera
Cruz, to northward of the port of that name,
have some very curious superstitions.
One of the elemental principles of the an-
cient Mexican theology was a belief in the
dual nature of the ocelotl—the tiger, which
is not a tiger proper, but a panther or jaguar.
This animal was depicted in the sculptures
and the picture writings as a prominent per-
sonage—for he was invested with an individ-
uality, and his traits and attributes were
regarded as shared with man in about equal
proportions. The tiger god of Yucatan is a
striking instance of the reverence in which
this brute was held by the ancient Mexicans.
Also it must be noted that he figures in a ma-
jority of the few legends and traditions which
have survived the iconoclastic oblivion with
which the Spaniards covered the faith and
works of the Aztecs.
The Totonac male is lord of his castle, and
from the day of his marriage he inflicts upon
his spouse a beating almost daily, to remind
her by practical demonstration that he is cer-
tainly master. If his lordship be in a recum-
bent position, the wife may by no means, for
no purpose, not though the question may be
of life and death, step across him, for that
would subject him to a woman’s dominion.
The Totonacs have the organ of philopro-
genitiveness strongly developed, and childless-
ness among them is regarded as a great mis-
fortune, a cause of stigma, of shame and re-
proach, and a childless wife fares hard.
Would she gb to a function, a fair, or other
gathering of the clans, she is forbidden, for,
says her lord and master: “You have no sons
to show there.” She may attend church and
religious ceremonies, but her husband gathers
■ up a log of wood or a wooden bench and lays
it across her bosom with: “You shall have
! something to carry in your arms, if not a
. baby.”
With a babe to show, an Indian woman
may repair to fetes and festivals freely, be-
ing now in the good graces of her husband.
1 But she must guard her child against evil in-
fluences; so she plucks a tuft of the hair like
scarlet feathers that grow at the root of the
“canoe beak” (the toucan) and fastens them
on the crown of the infant’s head with cera
do campeche, a very tenacious wax gathered
by insects. If she meets a “white one,” that
is to say, a Caucasian, she hastily covers the
face and head of her baby to avert the ills
which may befall it, for if the stranger gaze
upon the child the look means mal deojo (the
evil eye). To determine, in event of the
child ailing, if a spell has been cast upon it,
the mother places beneath its swinging cra-
dle a new casuhela (an earthen pipkin) full
of water and breaks a fresh egg into it. If
an eye appears in the curdled egg—and it
DR. 8. F. SMITH,
INDIAN DOCTOR,
Southeast Corner Twenty-fourth
and Avenue H,
Specialty of Chronic and Blood.
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LIFE AS8DRANCE SOCIETY.
A regular Life Insuranee Company which
insures lives as a fire insurance company in-
sures property, but with the right to con-
tinue the insurance from year to year for the
whole of life without re examination or
other formality.
The official report of the Commissioner of
Insuranoe shows
$280 Cash Assets to Each $ TOO
LIABILITIES.
Average premiums 50 per cent,
less than charged by any company
in the state.
Pure life insurance unmixed, with bank-
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120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK,
SHEPPARD HOMANS, President,
Wm. E. Stevens, Secretary.
R,. B. Parrott, State Agent, Waco.
CHAS. K. ROWLAND,
Manager Southern District. Galveston, Texas
Keeps the best
Wines, Liquors and Uigars.
Ice Cold Beer always on draught. Hot
Lunch from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
“ YOU SHALL HAVE SOMETHING TO CARRY IF
NOT A BABY.”
generally does appear, for they find a sem-
blance of an eye in the embryo the child
has been, enchanted and must be treateu ac-
cordingly.
HIRSUTE IDEAS.
It is a very old belief that the hair, like the
nails, should be cut only at certain times. An
old writer,with many ingenuous superstitions,
says that it should be done at sea. Juvenal
says that the hair was only given to man as a
final offering to the gods. There is an old
rhyme that reads:
Friday cut and Sunday shorn,
Better never had been born.
In many places in the United States there
is a maxim that the hair should not be cut
during the waning moon, and few persons in
Iceland cut the hair on Friday.
In many places it is regardfid as unfortu-
nate to suddenly lose the hair or any portion
500 are.
300 are
200 are
APPROXIMATION PRIZES:
100 Prizes of $500 approximating to
S 300,000 Prize are —
100 Prizes of §300 approximating to
$100,000 Prize are
100 Prizes of $200 approximating to
$50,000 Prize are
TERMINAL PRIZES:
999 Prizes of $100 decided by.. .$300,000
are . .......................
999 Prizes of’§100 decided by. ..$100,000
OLEEPEBI8 JNiwnii3, uiaa.c ..j Prize are..............................
that terrible cough. ^Shiloh’s cure is the — prizeg) amounttllg t0 -$1/O54,8oo
SF“Note—Tickets drawing Capital Prizes are
not entitled to Terminal Prizes.
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HE SPIT THREE TIMES THROUGH THE APER- ,
TURE.
A man with an old fashioned yellow flute 1
in an orchestra will at times cause the best of ’
theatrical companies to play wretchedly. '
The members of the company, instead of !
playing to the audience, will play solely to
the man in the orchestra playing the yellow
flute, and oftentimes so interested do they be-
come in that flute that lines are forgotten
or cues spoken at wrong places. The yellow
flute is “a J onah” of the worst kind, and in
the minds of professionals is on the same
level with the yellow dog. A black cat in a
theatre, especially if it enters the building of
its own accord, can have turkey for dinner,
and be assured that it will be treated with as
much consideration and care as could be ac-
corded the president of the United States.
Among theatrical people a black cat is sup-
posed to bring the best kind of good luck,
but woe to the yellow or tortoise shell cat
that attempts to join a theatrical company.
Many an actor, when en route to the theatre,
has seen a funeral procession approaching,
a nd in consequence retraced his steps until
he reached some side stteet, down which he
would walk and by a circuitous route reach
his destination. To have met that funeral,
in his opinion, would have been to have
signed his own death warrant within a year
of the day.
Another peculiar superstition of theatrical
people is that if, on the occasion of the open-
ing of a new theatre, a drop of blood gets on
the stage, the theatre is doomed forever after
to play to losing business. The opening of a
new opera house in a large manufacturing
city in Massachusetts is well remembered by
the writer. The play was “The Octoroon,”
and in the duel between McClosky and the
Indian one of the parties received a slight
cut on one hand. He was quite a full blooded
man and “the carmine” poured freely from
the wound upon the stage. The manager
happened to be standing in one of the wings,
and when he saw the blood upon the stage
the tears could not be kept back. He cried
like a baby, declaring that his prospects in
life were ruined, and that the theatre was
“Jonahed” by carelessness. And to tell the
truth, everybody who has undertaken to
manage this self same theatre has lost money.
Baseball players are about as superstitious
a set of people as actors, and many of the su-
perstitions well known by actors are as firmly
imbued in the minds of the sphere tossers.
For instance, if the members of a nine pass a
funeral procession on the way to the ball
grounds, they go into the game in a dis-
heartened way, feeling positive, even before
the first ball is pitched, that the game is lost.
A horseshoe is considered by baseballists as
the best possible omen, and to pick one up on
the day of a game insures confidence in the
players, and they look for victory with abso-
lute certainty.
ON THE WILD, WIDE SEA
It is the belief of sailors that departed spir-
its, as in life, possess all their peculiar ways
of warning and can communicate to their
friends still in the flesh such information as
may conduce to their happiness. Nearly all
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of it. In England it is said that loss of chil- ■
dren, health or property will ensue. The at-
tachment of the Chinaman for his cue is
well known. It is regarded as a disgrace to |
have it cut off, as well as entailing bad luck
upon the owner. In Scotland it is thought
that combing the hair by candlelight, or at
night at all, would cause disaster to friends
at sea.
BROKERS’ SUPERSTITIONS.
Such matter of fact business men as brokers
and speculators also have their peculiar su-
perstitions.
Hundreds of intelligent persons have a su-
perstitious reluctance to engage in any im-
portant enterprise on Friday. This includes
as cool and matter of fact a man as Jay
Gould. Under no circumstances will he use
an elevator. The late Jesse Hoyt, the mill-
ionaire grain merchant, would never engage I
in any important business undertaking on
Friday, and many of the speculators on the
big exchanges are similarly superstitious.
They consider every Friday a Black Friday.
The prejudice against Friday probably dates
back to the Middle Ages, or to even a remoter
period, as the day on which Christ was ex-
ecuted. It is only one of innumerable old I
superstitions which still sur v ive.
Many investors and speculators are super-
stitious about dropping things. If they find
themselves constantly dropping articles which
they happen to be carrying, they take it as a
sign that they must sell their bonds and |
stocks. Many have a superstitious fear of
holding stocks over a holiday.
Some firms will not display the ominous 13
if it happens to be the number of their places
of business.
“I confess,” said the manager of a large
hanking and brokerage house, “that I have
a superstition about the 13th day of the
month. It is not generally a lucky day. One
unlucky instance I remember, too, about Fri-
day. A big lake steamer, that plied between
Buffalo and Chicago a number of years ago,
was launched on Friday, sailed on Friday,
and sank on Friday.”
To see a negro the first thing in the morn-
ing is a favorable sign.
Some brokers on rising in the morning
have a superstitious fear of putting the left
foot but of bed first. Others believe in al-
ways putting on the left shoe first. If they
’ meet a negro or a cross eyed woman they
. spit for good luck.
Many women are
1 strange cats. If a cat is found in a new
’ house that house is doomed for the ill luck of
its occupants. Actresses are said to be super-
stitious regarding the appearance of a cat on
the stage—the great Siddons once fainting
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performance at Drury Lane theatre. Most
women regard the putting on of a garment I
wrong side out as a presage of bad luck. Fri-
day is a black day to some women. They
will not start upon a journey, begin a piece
of work, have company or do any act of im-
portance.
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the annunciator that demand more attention
than others. I don’t account for it. I sup-
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so I’ll let it go. But I haven’t failed to notice
it. Because certain rooms are occupied more
than others is no excuse for it.
“I’ll tell you a strange thing that happened
one night when I was on watch. It was quiet
in the hotel, for nearly every guest was in. I
was reading a newspaper when my attention
was called to a number on tho board which
was uncovered. I glanced at it, called front,
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