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(Front the corregrund,nt the tiovekent Cross.) Taurangs, June 21. lug of the 21St lust, Colonel Greer marched ..

... began fmtune telling career as the Oracle of Destiny in the rather purlieus of the Jardin Mabilit, where with the aid of palmistry, eards, astrology, &v., he told fortunes at about twopence half-penny a head; andthat, whether through some peculiar talent ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1864
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Article | Words: 4290 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... preserved in the Life and Character of Harvey, the famous conjuror of Dublin (1728), with fortune-telling, dreams, visions, palmistry, physiognomy, &c., there occur also looking-glasses. It is curious to find this species of superstition existing among ...

Published: Thursday 24 March 1881
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Article | Words: 772 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE CANTERBURY THE Lyttelton Time,' • Company Limited I have effected considerable enprovemente in this ..

... the Price—The Lights —Blocked In--A Nice Point in Grammar— Didn't Grasp the Idea—Now Synonym for Auld Clootie Amateur Palmistry Caput Vacuum —He Was a Plain Sp•mker—Got the Wrong Sonnd—She Venerates It—They Went Too Far—They Met awl Parted—Mr Spo ...

Published: Thursday 21 April 1881
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Advertisement | Words: 537 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Articles on Farm Labourer..—Gleanings—Corres. poudenoe—Babbits in the inui i. CHESS. of the Great Stuck ..

... poudenoe—Babbits in the inui i. CHESS. of the Great Stuck Steinitr Problem. • SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE ON THE QUAINT SUBJECTS OF PALMISTRY AND PHRENOLOGY. THE SKETCHER Contains some curious information on the ways of the Ruasian Police. FIGHTING THE APACHES. What ...

Published: Friday 30 April 1886
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Advertisement | Words: 149 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

• REAL WHITE PAPER. THE CANTERBURY TIMES Contains the Pulled and Beat Reports a all Colonial Meetings during ..

... pondence—Rabbits in the CHESS. Success of the Great Stuck Steinitz Problem. A SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE ON THE QUAINT SUBJECTS OF PALMISTRY AND PHRENOLOGY. THE SKETCHER Contains some curious information on the of the Russian Folios, FIGHTING THE APACHES. What Hanging ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1886
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Advertisement | Words: 173 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCIENCE

... SCIENCE. What cannot art and industry perform When science plans. —Bairns. PALMISTRY AND PHRENOLOGY. The younger Dumas recently delivered in Paris the funeral oration of a certain M. Desbarolles. The name of the deceased will probably be unfamiliar ...

Published: Monday 03 May 1886
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Article | Words: 643 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PIRIPATZTIC PHRENOLOGISTS

... as evidence of other kind, is brought into the field of research to confirm his deductions. Looking back to the days of palmistry and soothsaying, we see in the old phrenoloay, which still survives in unlearned circles, a fit accompaniment of the science ...

Published: Monday 03 May 1886
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Article | Words: 723 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GERALDINE

... they bad to walk into the township, some considerable distance. This is another in•tanee of Friday being an unlucky day. Palmistry, which for years past has been a fashionable amoseuient in English society, has at last reached the dimensions of a gennillo ...

Published: Tuesday 23 November 1886
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Article | Words: 485 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

RACING IN ENGLAND. LIVERPOOL sumer MEETING

... Get 111 b . (J. Wall) 1 Mr Manton's b o Oberon, by —Wheel of Fortune. 3r,, 7et Sib - (W. Robinson) I Mr G. Clorelawe's be Palmistry, hr Sp.colum Palmy Dey, Syr., list Rib (oar Set IMb) .. _ -• Ilambletonian (Bst 81b), Dalmeny (Sit Mb), and annotutry (Sit ...

Published: Friday 14 January 1887
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Article | Words: 668 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... times be absent with the English mystics all round his head; on animal magnetism, mesmerism, spiritualism, astrology, magic, palmistry, alchemy, the Roticrucians and the Gnostic,? — with Behmen and Fludd and Belmont and Paracelcus peering over one shoulder ...

Published: Tuesday 15 March 1887
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... She was not • mere vulgar cutter and 'Muffler of a pack of playing-carda, or one who pretended to the Romany knowledge of palmistry. It is true that the devil's prayer-book was among the tools of Mrs Faggotty's craft, but it played only a subordinate ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1888
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Article | Words: 1031 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ILEATECOTE PARISH FESTIVAL

... In corner Aunt belly was set up, and in rifle shooting could be kractiaed. A ging large tent, in winch by her skill Inin palmistry, she told fortunes to all anxious to kaow the future. There was a most capacious bran pie, and the usual number of raffle ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1889
Newspaper: Lyttelton Times
County: Christchurch, New Zealand
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 5 | Tags: none