August and December are the most favorable months, and Wednesday is the lucky day in this sign.
October, the eighth month of the old Roman year, originally began in spring. By the Julian arrangement it became the tenth month, and had thirty-one days assigned to it. By the Slavs this is called “yellow month” from the fading of the leaf; to the Anglo-Saxons it was known as the Wyn-Monat (wine month), because it was the month in which they pressed grapes, also as Winter-fylleth, because at this full moon (fylleth) winter was supposed to begin. It corresponds partly with the Vendémiaire and partly to the Brumaire of the first French Republic.
In some of the very old Saxon calendars October is characterized by the figure of a husbandman carrying a sack on his shoulders and sowing of corn. In others, less ancient, hawking is the emblem of the month; and yet in more modern times it has been represented as a man clothed in a garment of the color of decaying leaves, with a coronal of oak-branches and acorns on his head, holding in his left hand a basket of chestnuts, medlars, etc., and in his right, Scorpio—i.e., the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters on the twenty-third of October.
The principal ecclesiastical feasts are those of St. Luke, on the 18th; and St. Simon and St. Jude, on the 28th.
The late Senator Mark A. Hanna and Mrs. Annie Besant were born under this sign. Bernhardt, Modjeska, and Peg Woffington are excellent illustrations of the dramatic genius of the Libra people.
THE ZODIACAL SIGNS.
| 1. | Aries | The Ram. | Reigns from March 21 to April 19. |
| 2. | Taurus | The Bull. | Reigns from April 20 to May 19. |
| 3. | Gemini | The Twins. | Reigns from May 20 to June 18. |
| 4. | Cancer | The Crab. | Reigns from June 19 to July 23. |
| 5. | Leo | The Lion. | Reigns from July 24 to August 23. |
| 6. | Virgo | The Virgin. | Reigns from August 24 to September 21. |
| 7. | Libra | The Scales. | Reigns from September 22 to October 21. |
| 8. | Scorpio | The Scorpion. | Reigns from October 22 to November 20. |
| 9. | Sagittarius | The Archer. | Reigns from November 21 to December 20. |
| 10. | Capricorn | The Sea-Goat. | Reigns from December 21 to January 19. |
| 11. | Aquarius | The Water Bearer. | Reigns from January 20 to February 18. |
| 12. | Pisces | The Fishes. | Reigns from February 19 to March 20. |
WHAT FOREIGN JOHN SMITHS ARE CALLED.
Nearly Every Nation Has a Peculiar Manner of Spelling His Name—In Poland He is Ivan Schmittiweiski, and in Turkey Yoo Seef.
Of all the families of the earth probably there is none more numerous than that of Smith, and of all the Smiths in the world it seems that at least fifty per cent have been christened John. If the name were not so common we should probably admire it and see it through a glamour, as we do many other names that are not half as solid and substantial.