Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — Superstitions About Teeth. [ARTICLE]

Superstitions About Teeth.

If you wish to avoid tho toothache, say the sons of Krin, novor shave on Sunday.* Truth have boon worn as amulets. Shanks' tooth servo this purpose in Samoa. If a tooth cornos first in the upper jaw it i-\ people used to say, an omen of earLy death, as the child cannot survive so potent a disaster. An ohi work, published in 1033, tells ns that to lose a tooth or an eye is also to lose sum * friend or kinsman, or is, at least, attended by somo ill-luck In Nova Scotia, and in some parts of tho Unted States, children arc told that the new tooth will be a gold one if tho tongue is kopt out of tho old cavity. A work published In 1595 prescribes' the following remedy for an aching tooth: The patient was to Inha e tho sm: ke from a vessel in which dried herbs were mixed with live coals. Ho must then breathe over a cup holding water mixed with wax and serum, when it was said that a worm, the cause of tho trouble, would appear In the cup. M. Maury lias succeeded in photographing the movements of an auircal under water, taking pro.ifs at tho rate of fifty in a second, with exposures from 1-2,0(H) to 1-3,000 of a second. A set of twelve photograph- gives all tho phases of the undulations which the medusa impresses unon its umbrola of a locomotor apparatus. A ray bas been taken in profile while waving the edges of Its flat body, and the curious mode of progression of a comatu a has been taken. One tr.ck needs a great many more to make it good. •