Superstitions Of Brave People

[fono will take the trouble to go throngh tho Dames of most of the bravest people in history, he will find that I trom some superstition or other. ' Nap íleon Bonaparto was sin lerstiI bo was the diike of Marlborough. Literary men have :ii been notoriously Buperatitkras, from the days of Dr. Johnson, who would go back half a mile if he remembered that he had omitted to touch any ono of the lampposts on his daily walk, to Dean Swift, who would never changue a garcnent f he found that he had put it on inside out, and Lord IU-ron, who would get up and leave a dinner party Instantly if anybody spilt the sait. Statesmen hare not been excuipt from superstltioas eithcr. Lord always take especial care to enter the house with his ■ foot foremost when he was going to make a bif speech. Mr. Parnell had a strong prejudice against sitting in a with three caadles. William Pitt I return Lome at once, however important his . if he met a I man in the strect, while Sir i Peel would always make the ast tlic cvil ej'e witli his finBfld tliumb under similar cireumstam i -