_Unlucky Days._--The superstition respecting unlucky Friday is well known. Some cynical bachelors say it is unlucky because named for a woman. Monday was also so named. I can find no account of this superstition until after the first century A. D. It is said that our Saviour was crucified on Friday--a day of fear and trembling, of earthquakes and divers remarkable phenomena; but that day is now as uncertain as the day of his birth, in the various changes of the calendar, heathen naming of the days to suit their notions, and the great uncertainty of chronology. No doubt Christ arose from the dead on the then first day of the week, and was crucified the third day before the resurrection; but what day of our present week who can tell? If on Friday, it should be counted far from an unlucky day. Sailors are particularly superstitious as to sailing on Friday, notwithstanding Columbus sailed on Friday, and discovered America on that day. The French believe in unlucky Friday. Lord Byron, Dr. Johnson, and other authors and poets, are said to have so believed. Shakspeare, Scott, Goldsmith, Bacon, Sir Francis Drake, Napoleon, and many other great men, were pretty thoroughly tinged with superstition; the latter, it is said, believed in "luck," or destiny. The future of children is yet believed to depend much upon the day of the week on which they are born. "Monday's child is fair in face; Tuesday's child is full of grace; Wednesday's child is full of woe; Thursday's child has far to go; Friday's child works hard for its living; Saturday's child is loving and giving; And a child that's born on Christmas day Is fair, and wise, and good, and gay."[7] This, of course, is all nonsense--or rather the belief in such signs--and one day is equally as good as another for nature's work, or in which to fulfil the requirements of God and nature. Let no mother, or her who is about to become a mother, put faith in old nurses' whims. Their brains are full of all such fantastic notions, which are too often revealed in the sick room, and the effect is often detrimental to the peace and happiness of the mother, and at times dangerous to the life of the invalid. SUPERSTITION OF A KISS. The monks of the middle ages--great theorists--divided the kiss into fifteen distinct and separate orders. 1. The decorous or modest kiss. 2. The diplomatic, or kiss of policy. 3. The spying kiss, to ascertain if a woman had drank wine. 4. The slave kiss. 5. The kiss infamous--a church penance. 6. The slipper kiss, practised towards tyrants. 7. The judicial kiss. 8. The feudal kiss. 9. The religious kiss (kissing the cross). 10. The academical kiss (on joining a solemn brotherhood). 11. The hand kiss. 12. The Judas kiss. 13. The medical kiss--for the purpose of healing some sickness. 14. The kiss of etiquette.