Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1898 — Misfortune in a Sneeze. [ARTICLE]

Misfortune in a Sneeze.

It is a superstititon of the Chinese that a sneeze on New ear’s eve indicates misfortune for the coming year; and to overcome this he is obliged to .go to three families of different surnames, and beg from each of them a little cake shaped like a tortoise, which must be eaten before midnight.