1445. If you choke (food gets in the windpipe), it means some one has told lies about you. _Cape Breton._ 1446. It is a sign of good old-fashioned economy to use up a dish-cloth until it can be put into your mouth. _Massachusetts._ 1447. If a door opens of itself, it is supposed to indicate the presence of a spirit, usually one of the family. _Massachusetts._ 1448. It is unlucky to name a child after a dead child of the family. _Newfoundland._ 1449. If you begin keeping house with many in the family, it is a sign that you will always have a large family or houseful. _Ohio._ 1450. If a wood fire snaps and sparkles, each time it does indicates the receipt of a letter. _Peabody, Mass._ 1451. One of the negro superstitions was that when the fire burned with a blue flame, it was the devil seeking to speak to them. A handful of salt would make him go away. _Alabama._ 1452. Sweep the floor after dark, you'll see sickness before morning. 1453. If while eating you drop food on the floor, it is a sign that some one is telling lies about you. _Cape Breton._ 1454. Food dropped on the floor by one signifies that some one grudges you it. _Common in the United States._ 1455. Do not change your place at table; it is very unlucky. _New York, N.Y._ 1456. If you keep changing your furniture to different places, you'll be poor. _Massachusetts._ 1457. Not drinking the whole contents of a glass or cup means disappointment. _Westport, Mass._ 1458. If sooty bubbles form and blacken on the wick in a lamp burning whale oil, each bubble indicates the receipt of a letter. _Peabody, Mass._ 1459. When sparks are seen on the bottom of the tea-kettle, it is a sign that folks are going home from meeting. _New Hampshire and Boxford, Mass._ 1460. Sparks flying from a fire mean letters; the number of the sparks is the number of the letters. _Boston, Mass._ 1461. If a spark or sparks jump out of the fire and hit you or come towards you, it is a sign some one has a spite or grudge against you. _Bathurst, N.B._ 1462. Two spoons given to one person denotes that that person will have two homes before the year is out. _Chestertown, Md._ 1463. The tea-kettle suddenly singing means news. _Patten, Me._ VARIOUS. 1464. A stratum of warm air indicates the presence of the devil. _Boston, Mass. (Irish)._ 1465. If, when a newly-married couple go to housekeeping, she slyly takes her mother's dish-cloth or dish-wiper, she will never be homesick. Old Mrs. ---- told me that she believed that was the reason she was not homesick when they moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio. _Ohio._ 1466. To have a sharp knife is a sign of a lazy man. _Central Maine._ 1467. Passing anything through a ladder is a sign of a long passage. _Conception Bay, N.F._