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Wishing Customs.

[ny whatever grade of society or position of prosperity we are placed, we shall hope for something better, and as mankind is never in this world perfectly happy, we fiad ourselves constantly wishing for some future blessedness superlative to that we at present enjoy. Consequently, a host of futile customs to meet this want are practised among the vulgar, who believe in their e‘licacy, and many of them are even patronized by theeducated. In the West of England ‘ wishing wells’ are very plentiful, and young damsels longing for married felicity offer up the following pe- tition :

A husband, St. Catherine ;

A handsome one, St. Catherine ; A rich one, St. Catherine ;

A nice one, St. Catherine;

And soon, St. Catherine.

At Abbotsbury they used to goon a certain day of the year to the Norman chapel of St. Catherine, at Milton Abbey and m2ke the same prayer. It is some- what sip zular that on the Continent this saint should be considered the special patroness of spinsters. At Holywell, or St Winifred’s Well, in North Wales, those who are not satisfied with their circumstinces in life must find a ‘ wish- ing stone ’ which is two fect below the water, and while kissing it make the necessary wish.

During the season when the cuckoo’s note is heard many curious customs are observed. ‘Thus, in England, as well as Germany, it is believed by the peasantry that, if asked, it will tell you how many years you have to live by the repetition of its cry ; so they say :

Cuckoo, cherry-tree, Good bird, tell me . How many years have | to live?

As soon as the Danish village girls hear thi: bird they kiss their hand and ask, ‘Cuckoo, cuckoo! when shall I be murried Among the Swedes, too, the girls exclaim :

(ucko gray, tell to me, \'p in the tree, true and free, How many years must [live andgo unmarried ?

Superstitions in connection with the appearance of the moon are very numer— ous. It generally presides over lovers’ wishes. in Devonshire the young people, az soon as they see the first new moon after midsummer, go toa stile, turn their backs to it, and say :

All bail, new moon, all hail to thee! I prythee, good moon, reveal to me This night who shall my true love be;

Who is he and what he wears, And what he does all months and years.

In Ire|and they sometimes show the new moon a knife, and, invoking the Holy Trinity they say : New moon, true morrow, be true now to me, That | ere the morrow my true love may see. After placing the knife under the pillow and keeping strict silence lest the charm should be broken. In Berkshire; at the new moon, the maidens go into the fields and, loolxing at it, say : New moon, new moon, I hail thee ! By all the virtue in thy body, Grant this night that | may see He who my true love is to be.. In Devonshire the girls believe that if they pluck yarrow from a man’s grave and place it under their pillow, repeating these lines, they will dream of their lovers: ee — yarrow, the first that 1 have ound,

And in the name of Jesus I pluck it from the ground.

As Josep! loved sweet Mary and took her for his dear,

So in adream thislaight 1 hope my true love will appear.

{n Lancashire, if the inquirer wishes to know the abode of a loves,-an apple pippin is taken between the thumb and finer, and, while moving round, squeeze out, when it is supposed to fly in the dis rection of the lover's house. ‘These words are said at the same time :

Peppin, pippin, paradise,

Teil me where my true love lies ; Kast, west, north, or south, Pilling Brig or Cockermouth.

Halliwell, inhis ‘Popular Rhymes’ (1849), says that girls practised devinae pation \vith a ‘St. Thomas onion,’ which they peeled, wrapped in a clean handker- chief, and laid under their heads, saying the following rhyme :

Good St, Thomas, do me right, Aud see my true love come to night, ‘Tuat | may see him in the face, And him in my kind arms embrace.

In Shropshire, to find one’s futare partner the bladebone of a lamb must be pricked at midnight with a penknife, and these words repeated :

")is not this bone I mean to pick, Hut my love's heart I wish to prick ; {i he comes not and speaks wo night i prick and prick till it be light.

In “Derbyshire they have a method Which it would take a bold heart to per- form. The young woman to find out her future husbeyd, runs round the church at midvight, as the clock strikes twelve, repeating the following :

[sow hempseed, hempseed I sow ;

lie that loves me best

(ome and after me mow. After which her destined partner is be- lieved ‘o follow her.

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Mortgage Sale.

TO be Sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, at the Court House in Charlottetown, in Queen 8 County, in Prince Edward Island, on Tuesday, the second day of December Next, 1879, at the hour of twelve o'clock, noon, by Virtue of a Power of Sale in an Indenture of Mortgage dated the eight day of May, 1873, and made between Alexander Mar- tin, of the one part, and Edward Jarvis Hodgson, of the other part,—

LL that tract, piece and parcel of land situate, lying and being on Township number Sixty-two, in Queen’s County, in the said Island, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Commencing ata stake fixed at the edge of the Creek making John Nicholson’s southern boundary line and run- ning from thence due east fifteen chains, fifty links: thence south three degrees east thirty- four chains; thence west ten degrees north sixteen chains and fifty links; thence west tifteen degrees north to the edge of the dry land; thence following the courses of the dry land along the inner edge of the marsh north- erly and easterly tothe place of commence- ment, containing eighty-seven and a half acres of land, a little more or less, together with the appurtenances thereto belonging.

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Dated the 27th of August, 1879. EDWARD J. HODGSON. [aug 28, oaw til] sale]—mon

Mortgage Sale.

To be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, on Friday, the Tenth day of October next, at the hour of Twelve o’clock, noon, atthe Court Housein Summerside, Prince County, under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in an In- denture of Mortgage, bearing dute the 2nd day of August A.D. 1875,and made betwen James Darby, of the one part, and Benjamin Kennedy of the other part,—

LL that tract, piece and parcel of land situate, lying aud being in Lot&Seven-

teen, in Prince County, aforesaid, bounded and described as follows: Com- mencing at a Stake fixed in the division line between the lands of the seid Benjamin Kennedy and Jaines Darby, and in the north-west angle of a lot of iand owned by the iate Harry Tuplin, and running from thence along said division north thirty de- grees east twenty-five chains and twenty- six links; thence east thirty degrees, south ten chains, or to the south boundary of the said Benjamin Kennedy’s land; thence along said boundary south thirty degrees, west twenty-five chains and twenty-six links to said Harry Tuplin’s north line; thence west- wardly along said line to the point of com- mencement, containing twenty-six acres of land, a little more or less, together with all rights and appurtenances thereto belong- ing.

For further particulars apply at the office of Messrs. HODGSON & McLEOD, Solici- tors, Charlottetown.

Dated this Seventh day of August, A. D 1879.

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Dear Str—It is now two years since your ‘Constitutional Catarrh Remedy’ was intro- duced to me. I have waited this ong to see if the cure would remain permanent before do- ing this, my duty, to you, as at first the happy efiects seemed to me to be ‘‘too good to vd true.”’

I was afflicted in my head for years before I suspected it to be Catarrh. In reading in your Circular I saw my case described in many par ticulars. The inward ‘‘drop” from the head had become very disagreeable, and a choking sensation often preventing me from lying long, I would feel like smothering and be compelled to sit up in the bed. My health and spirits were seriously affected. When your agent came to Walkertown in August, 1876, I secured three bottles. Before I had used a quarter of the contents of one bottle I found decided re- lief, and when I had used two bottles and a third. I quit taking it, feeling quite cured of that ailment, and have not used any since until of late I have taken some for a cold in my head,

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TIME TABLE NO. 12. Summer Arrangement.

ON AND AFTER

TURSDAY, MAY 27th, 1879.

‘TRAINS GOING. WEST.

No. 7,

, (Nos. 1&3,} No. 5. STATIONS. | Express. | Mixed. Mixed, ae By —_- oe ee Georget'n.. Dp. 7.10am| Dp. 3.45pm! Cardigan. .|Ar. 7.30 ** |Ar.4.14 ‘| ca ‘+ § 30 * ‘$5.40 “| Mt Stwt Jel, § 40 “sé Dp. 6.00 ‘<< { Royalty Je! ** 9.38 “| “7.18 * Ch’town .. (A! 9.55 ** |Ar.7.40 _ |Dp.6.20am Dp10. 05am! Dp. 5.25pm A tia «. |ArlO.25 ** | Royalty Je; 6.37 Dp10.30 «sé ‘sé 5.47 é NWiltsh’re| ‘‘ 7.13 ‘| “11.25 “| * 6.40 « Hunter R’r| ‘* 7.25 ‘| “*i1.40am! ‘ 6.57 * Breadalb’n| ** 7.53 “| “12.23pml * 7.35 « C’ty Line..| ‘* 8.00 ‘| “12.34 “1 ** 7.45 Kensingt’n| ‘* 8.23 ‘*| ** 1.16 ‘| * 8,25 * “nei da| ar 8.55 ** j|Ar. 1.50 “| Ar. 9.00 * S'mm'rside!ty,.9.10 «| Dp.2.25 - Wellingt ‘nl Ar. 0.45.**)-** 229 *° Port Hill. .| ‘* 10.20 **| ** 4.07 **; O'Leary. ..j ‘137 | * S8L * | Alberton. .} ‘‘12.00pm, ‘* 6.40 * Tignish ...{ 12.40.“ (Ar. 7.40pm| __ TRAINS GOING EAST. -q |Nos. 2&4! No.6, | No. 8, eons ey Express, | Mixed. Mixed. Tignish....|Dp.5.15 am Dp.6-20am| cen steal Alberton..} * 5.55 Ihr 042 || O’Leary...} ‘* 6.41 * | ** 8.64 * Port Hill...) ‘* 7.38 ,‘* | ‘10.20 * | Wellington) ‘‘ 8.09 **| ‘11,08 ** nm werde At 8.45 * | Arl2.05pm Sm reide Dp.5.30pm! Dp12.40 ‘* [Dp.9.05 am Kensingt’n! ** 5.52 **| ** 1.16 ‘*| ** 9.41 C’ty Line. .| ‘* 6.24 **| ‘* 1.55 **| £10,290 * Breedal'ne. | ‘+G3) *) *$ 205 *) *fiagi + Hunter R’r; ‘‘ 6.57 ‘*; ‘* 2.44 ‘1 **11.07 *¢ NWiltsh’re} ‘‘ 7.12 **; ‘* 3.01 ‘| £12.95 * . Pe ERO.“ 4 « Royalty Je| ** 7.49 ‘ Dp.3.55 “ **12.18pm Ch’town __ (Ar. 8.05 és Ar. 4.15 ‘ Arl2.40 as Dp.4.30pm|Dp.6.50am\ Royalty Jc} ‘* 4.49 **} ** 7.13 * 4 7,jAr. 5.45 ** Ar. 8.30 ** M. Stw’t Je Dp.6.00 “ec 'Dp.8.50 6a | Cardigan..| ‘* 7.03 ‘| ‘*10.16 ** Geo’town..|Ar.7.25 ‘* |Arl0.45 **

SOURIS BRANCH. Trains Going West.

srations. |No. 9 Express| No. 11 Mixed.

OT iw on ovees Dp. 6.15 a. m. ’p. 2.50 Harmony...... & 6.33 * "e 3.13 - St. Peter’s.....).* %30: * | aap + Morell ........| 7.63 * ee 7

Mt. S’tw’t Jnc,.|Ar. 8.25 “ |Ar. 5.40 p. m. Trains Going East. _

STATIONS. —_ | No. 10 Express|No, 12, Mixed

Mt. S’tw’t Junc.|Dp. 5.55 p. m.|Dp. 8.45 a. m1

BROOOEEG i 6c. wad ite ** 9.25 St. Peter’s...... “(RS %*.. 2:7 ' Qe > mewneky.. i ..$S Tae (3 Va: DOB. 5 6's ode |Ar. 8.05. ¢* [Ar 1L35 *“ ALEX. MACNAB, Sup’t and Engineer.

Railway Office, Chtown, May 22, 1879. —pat pres h ane sp sj kca 6i

Steam Navigation Go, Steamers MAY. 1879.

NTIL FURTHER NOTICE the Steam- ers “St. Lawrence” and * Prin- cess of Wales” will leave as under :— NOVA SCOTIA. From Charlottetown to Picteu, every MON- DAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY mornings, at five o'clock. Returning from Pictou every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY, on arrival of morning trainfrom Halifax, ,

_. GAPE BRETON. Leave Pictou tor Hawkesbury every MON-

DAY and THURSDAY, on arrival of mornin train from Halifax, connecting both ways with stage and Steamer ‘‘ Neptune,” to and from Sydney and Bras d’Or Lake.

Returning to Pictou same nights, connecting with 10 a. m, Train TUES DAY and FRIDAY for Halif..x.

FOR GANADA AND UNITED STATES. Leave Summerside for Point Du Chene EVERY DAY about 9a. m., on arrival of morning train from Charlottetown.

Returning to summerside EVERY NOON, on arrival ot morning train from St. John,

By order, : F. W. HALES. Charlottetown, May 6, 1879.

TO THE SICK. DR. D. MacRAK, .

RMERLY SURGEON and PHYSICIAN in the United States Army, late of St. Louis, Mo., respectfully announces to the cit- izens of Charlottetown and Prince Edward Island that he will be at the ‘ Rocklin Hovse,” in Charlottetown, every Tuzspay

y jand Fripay throughout the year, where those

who are suffering with any form of disease can call and receive medical advice and treatment; especially persons suffering from diseases and re the eyes, deafness and ulcera- ions of the ears, catarrh, asthma, consum tion, diseases of the heart, liver, jana, kidneys, rheumatism, paralysis, scrofula, malignant ulcerations, tumors, piles, fistula; cancer cured without the use of the knife. Particular attention given to diseases peculiar to females. All forms of fevers, di ia and other malignant diseases successfully treated and cured by him. Prominent Office, Hunrer River Srarioy, Prince Edward Island.

DUNCAN MacRAE, M, D.

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