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polite exercises ; will practice embroidery and other gentle work, 

 will be skilled in making embellishments for women, will marry 

 only once, will have more girls than boys, will love gardens and 

 fragrant things, precious stones, and everything that can adorn 

 the ladies ; will be welcome among them, and will live seventy- 

 two years or more. He will be a maker of musical instruments, 

 and a skillful dancer and musician. 



" The man who is born on Saturday is apparently solitary, 

 melancholy, and idle, will be glad when his work is done, will 

 suffer in his legs and knees ; he will be avaricious, trying to 

 borrow and not return, will go to prison for debts, will be badly 

 dressed for fear of want, and will be subject to rash, gall, and 

 other diseases. In fortune he will have luck in finding treasures, 

 will be rich in inheritances ; he will live nearly a hundred years, 

 according to the course of Nature ; will addict himself to occult 

 sciences, will be fortunate in solid things like wood, iron, stones, 

 etc., will be fond of many evil things which I will not put down 

 here, there being no need to tell everything. He will be indo- 

 lent, weak, of bad appearance, lame, poor, ill-formed, if he is not 

 looked upon by the sun or by Venus. 



" The whole will be according to the will of God." 



Having thus made these wonderful predictions, the Sieur de 

 Conac does not fail to look out for himself, and we read the fol- 

 lowing little personal item : 



" The aforesaid astrologer tells fortunes of the past and the 

 future, reads the disposition of persons in their physiognomy, 

 and sells drugs for the cure of diseases, and has other interest- 

 ing secrets in his line. The said mathematician lives at Chateau 

 Gaillard, at the end of the Pont-Neuf, near the Hotel de Nevers." 



This pleasant announcement need not surprise us, for do we 

 not find at the end of this century this century of progress and 

 light advertisements in the papers making known to the simple 



of both sexes that Madame X , the celebrated cartomaucist, 



predicts the future from the lines of the hand and plays the great 

 game ? While the cartomancists of the nineteenth century have 

 their clients, it would be hard to find out why an astrologer should 

 not have had them two centuries and a half ago. Translated for 

 The Popular Science Monthly from the Revue Scientifique. 



THE Government of Bengal has been induced to impose additional limitations 

 upon the kinds of cases to which jury trial may he applied. It is alleged that the 

 juries allow personal feelings or caste prejudices to interfere with the discharge 

 of their duty. There is, furthermore, some uncertainty concerning the action of a 

 native jury upon such a charge as forging a receipt for taxes. It is pleaded against 

 this measure that sufficient evidence of the necessity for it has not heen adduced, 

 also that it is not prudent to withdraw a privilege once granted and exercised. 



