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112.—It is bad to drink water before seating oneself for a meal. 
113.--A coin with a hole in it should be kept as a pocket piece for good 
luck. 
114,—It is unlucky to eat in the street. 
115.—It is unlucky to burn bread or other food. 
116.—-Children are told that if a dog should get one of their extracted 
teeth, they will get a dog’s tooth in its place. 
117.--Children are told that if they refrain from putting their tongue 
in the cavity from which a tooth has been extracted, that they will have 
in its' place a golden tooth. 
118.—To stop a dog from howling at night one’s shoes must be turned 
upside down when the sound is heard. 
119.—To find any lost article a key is placed in a Bible or large book, 
then fastened and held in such a manner that it can move. At the men- 
tion of the place where the lost article is, or the person who took it, the 
book will make a movement. 
120.—It is very unlucky to stumble. 
121.—It is unlucky to kill a lady bug. 
122.—To kill a lady bug will produce a thunder storm. 
Norr.—According to the eminent scholar, D. Alejandro Guichot y 
Sierra, the following of the foregoing superstitions are likewise current in 
Andalusia : 
Birth, Death and Marriage—Nos. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20; Weather, Celestial 
—Nos. 2, 6, 7,8; Weather, Terrestrial—Nos. 2, 15 ; Medicine—Nos. 6, 16. 
General Superstitions—Nos. 81, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 
45, 01, 62, 55, 66, 62, 68, 64; 67, 68, 81, 88, 89, 109, 111, 112, 114. 
The Classification and Nomenclature of Metalline Minerals. 
By T. Sterry Hunt. 
(Read before the American Philosophical Society, May 4, 1888.) 
1. The writer in April, 1885, presented to the National Academy of Sci- 
ences the project of A Natural System in Mineralogy, which was farther 
elaborated in an essay before the Royal Society of Canada in May of the 
same year, published in Volume III of the Transactions of that Society, 
and with revisions and additions, in his Mineral Physiology and Physiog- 
