| Show queer superstitions if yon pay out money on monday mom ing you will pay out money all the rest of the week it is unlucky to spill salt at the table and to rub a hunchback ali bring luck to any immediate project you have in view to leave the house and then suddenly return to it is considered a bad omen this is a very old superstition but a common one with as Lao damia refers to it in her letter to Prote silaus after he had left for the trojan war some years ago I 1 asked a neighbor to haul a dead horse from the premises he declared that if he did BO one of hia own horses would die within tho year I 1 reasoned him out of the superstition and he removed the horse strange to say one of the span of horses which ho used for the purpose died shortly afterward philadelphia ledger |
