... prisoner. He endeavoured to press upon the Court that the prisoner was not an impostor, or mere fortuneteller, with cards or by palmistry, but that he practised the science of astrology, which science was not illegal, and had been studied and written on very ...

... from particular planetary aspects. But fortune telling was held to be some idle and attached to the turning up of cards or palmistry. Nothing l ;' cards in tha evidence, the witnesses state that * pent to have their planets ruled*and this certainly has nothing ...

... FORTUNE TELLING. Punch of this week contains a humorous engraving, representing a tall gipsy practising palmistry on very little man. There is no difficulty in recognising the former as intended for Sir Robert Peel, and the latter for Lord John Russell ...

... it miay be, tend to aid the efforts making for weaning tirsrr front tioso rovirrg habite, us well as those of deceit anst palmistry, wbich, thlrotl irrleestod wiw sotomething of the tharmrs of pootry,-yet cars have iso other effect tian causing them to ...

... been on the wane, a mere successful studier of the stars residing in the eastern part of this city. The deceased eschewed palmistry, and undertook to read for. tunes and cast nativities without reference to dates or ephemira, and by merely looking at the ...

... returned into the church to perform his wonderful and imposing ceremony of confirmation. Before coming to this act of' sacred palmistry, the right reverend father delivered a» address to the young people, similar both word and character to addresses delivered ...

... characteristics in common ; the skill to decei e, to telly and intimidate, the unscrupulous, ness to-Cat. the dextrous palmistry pretty equally tod; but the energy of the H.H. circle the old virulent you please, lively. Glum enough they look from their ...

... rather priestfully. Last Friday, June 6th, Dr. Trower was at North Tawton, where he subjected a lot of heads to his episcopal palmistry. Confirmation is held by high churchmen to be sort of supplemental rite sacrament of baptism ; and it would seem as if Dr ...

... Fryer contended that defendant's doings in this affair did not constitute an offence within the meaning of the act against palmistry and fortune telling thereby or imposing upon the subject. After a joke or two between bar and bench,creating a laugh, the ...

... found him Mr. Plummer's White Hart Inn, Lymc-street, and took him in custody for practising the occult art or science ct palmistry. The prisoner turned out to bo an old: acquaintancs of Sergt. Gunn, who proved a previous conviction against him in November ...

... indignity put upon the illustrious colonial iv getting him down to Exeier and then denying biin tho gratification of doing tho palmistry. ;Uie Gazette says that he would have been saved only the authorities did not kuow where to find him. Tho Archbishop's official ...

... f to deal with him under the Vagrant Act, which enacts that every person using any subtle craft*, means, or device,by palmistry, or otherwise.to deceive and impose upon any of Her Majesty's subjects, shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond.— A witness ...