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Show aitminiiiin superstition. It Ls said that Collis P. Huntlngtnu'i desire to 60II the $2,000,000 palace Which he has just completed in New VTork is his belief in the old superstition supersti-tion that old men who grow rich build ne houses for their funerals. He expected ex-pected to move in three years ago, but It was only last year that the house began be-gan to get near completion. In the meantime his health had become less and less vigorous. His age and his yean of hard work and worry began to tell apon him. The superstition came back with renewed force, and he began to think a great deal about it. At last he tecame absolutely convinced that should he move in the first function to which his friends would come would be his funeral. fu-neral. Then he decided that he would not even ke?p the house in the family. Brooklyn Citizen, |