Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — SIGNS AND SUPERSTITIONS. [ARTICLE]

SIGNS AND SUPERSTITIONS.

If you see a load of empty barrels it’s roing to rain. If you can’t break an apple you’ll die m old maid. Every time a star falls there’s a death omewhere. Cobwebs in a house are a sign there .< no kissing there. If it doesn’t dear up at 11 or 3 it von’t clear up all day. If the water boils away on-the stove 's a sign it is going to rain. If her petticoat hangs below her ress it’s a sign her father loves her est. Put on something new New Year's <ay and you’ll have plenty ail through he year.