The fortune-telling philosopher, who inspected the finger nails: his visitersAnother philosopher, who judged of the character by the hairThe fortune-teller dupedPredatory warfare.

The representative of the former, is a fortune-telling philosopher, Avarabet, (Lavater,) whose course of proceeding was, to examine the finger nails, and, according to their form, colour, thickness, surface, grain, and other properties, to determine the character and destinies of those who consulted him; and that of the latter, a physician, who judged of the character of disposition or disease, by the examination of a lock of the hair.

The upshot of the story is, as might be anticipated, that the fortune-telling philosopher is caught, and exposed in his own toils.

One of them carried a "bina," a second an ordinary school-slate covered with crude cabalistic signs and a third a rude book, something like a Vani's "chopda," filled with Marathi characters, which doubtless plays a part in the fortune-telling and spirit-scaring that form the stock-in-trade of these wandering hierophants.

" "And then you must have side shows, you know; funny performances, like 'Punch and Judy,' and a fortune-telling gipsy.

"I've been wondering as I came along," he said at last, with an obvious attempt to speak carelessly, "whether this 'ere fortune-telling as we've been hearing so much about lately always comes out true.

It was here especially that the Jews exercised some of the meanest trades in Rome, selling matches, and old clothes, and broken glass, or begging and fortune-telling on the Cestian or Fabrican bridges.

The existence of a fortune-telling class among the Arabs shows that Muhammed may well have been endowed with psychological tendencies which only awaited the vivifying influence of Judaism and Christianity to emerge as the prophetic impulse forcing him to stand forth in public and to stir the people from their indifference: "Be ye converted, for the day of judgment is at hand:

While at Calcutta a young lady at our hotel was incidentally informed by a fortune-telling fakir she met accidentally in a Brahmin temple that she would soon receive news that would change all her plans and alter the course of her life, and the next morning she received a cablegram from England announcing the death of her father.

" Fortune-Telling The Boy who Stole the Nails The Childless Mother The Motherless Child Faith SMALL MEANS AND GREAT ENDS; OR, THE WIDOW'S POT OF OIL.

And when you connect fortune-telling and our duties in the present, you make it too serious an affair.

" Fortune-Telling.

He often used to visit an Italian who kept fortune-telling canaries, and he always followed the advice he got.

* HORATIO BOTTOMLEY pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of fortune-telling.

Sahwah agreed amiably; she did not care two straws about fortune-telling herself, but she knew Hinpoha's hobby and willingly submitted to countless "readings" of her future, in various ways, by the ardent amateur seeress.

You can be introduced to the queen as a woman skilled in charms and fortune-telling.

Your fortune-telling birthday song book.

Your fortune-telling birthday song book.

Your fortune-telling birthday song book.

Gong hee fot choy: a fortune-telling game.

Your fortune-telling birthday song book.

Your fortune-telling birthday song book.

Gong hee fot choy: a fortune-telling game.

They in general adhere to their unsettled habits wherever they go, show the same tastes, and follow the same pursuits, such as tinkering, mat-making, basket-making, fortune-telling.

LILLY, WILLIAM, an English astrologer, born in Leicestershire, who made gain by his fortune-telling during the Commonwealth period especially, but got into trouble afterwards as a presumed mischief-maker (1602-1681).