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Show ItiUiaritUlnn of llrt ITopio. If ono will take tint troublo to go through tlio names of rooH ol tho l)ravot pcoplo In history, bo will find Hint they nearly nil uifTorcd from oomo mperstltlon or other. Nnpoleou Iloim-parto Iloim-parto was klmply eaten ly superstl-(tons, superstl-(tons, nnd ro whb tho dul.e ot Marl-'jorough. Marl-'jorough. Mtcrary men lmvo always been notoriously superhtltlous, from the dnyh of Dr. Johnson, who would (r back half amllo if he remembered that hci had omitted to touch nuy ono of tho lomppostn on lib dally walk, to Dean 9wlf t, who would never chango a garment if ho found that ho had put It on Insklo out, nnd Lord Ityron, who would (fot up and leavo n dluuer party Instantly If anybody rpllt tho salt. Ktntesmnn hnv not been ox-ompt ox-ompt from supowtttlons olthor. I.onl teaeon(ieUl would nlways tuko ospo-l,il ospo-l,il care to uiitor tho house with hla rij'ht foot foremost whunlie wm pang to make n bin upeoch. Mr. 1'aruull had n htronff projudloe against ulttluff In n i.)umwUhtlu-oeonndlo. William T'itt would 1'otuni homa nt onoo, howover liiiportnnt hi hutlnos't, if ho met a orn-sk-uyotl man In thu strout, whllo Sir Jlobcrt 1'oel wcnihl alwnyn mako tho -lgn nf ulust the uvll oy with his tin-gow tin-gow ii nd thumb under bltnllur ulruum |