Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1881 — Crime and Superstition. [ARTICLE]

Crime and Superstition.

Catherine De Medicis, one of the French queens noted for vice and cruelty, was a victim to superstitions fears. Her public policy was bold, and she was generally thought to lie a woman of great courage and unfailing resources. Her reign, and her subsequent administration as Queen Mother to the Jroung king, was a brilliant period iu the listory of the French Court. She fascinated strangers by her elegant manners, and corrupted great statesmen by the wiles of eburt beauties. But the great Queen was a genuine coward. An astrologer attended her in the palace and in all her journeys. She never engaged in any enterprise without consulting the stars, and after her death a great variety of amulets and charms were found on her person. In the last year of her life a great comet blazed in the heavens. It frightened her terribly as an omen of coming death. It shone in the windows of the palace at a great feast, and she could not sit in quiet till all the shutters were closed, and the gloomy portent was shut out Tub Duke of Devonshire has a private park and flower garden at Chatsworth, containing 2,000 acres of land, the finest private grounds in England. The flower garden alone employs e**ty laborers,