sted by Madame Mar,"
and the profits of the business are shared in the same impartial
manner.

The house, No. 176, is in the worst part of Varick Street, and
the room occupied by the pair of witches is over a boot and shoe
store, and a pawnbroker's shop is directly opposite.

The room is a small parlor, neatly though plainly furnished, and
with no professional implements visible. When the inquirer made
his call, Madame de Gore was engaged in the kitchen, in her
various household duties, and Madame Mar attended to his call.
She is a tall and rather pleasing woman, neatly dressed and of
quiet manners.

She secured a dollar in advance, and then led her customer into a
little closet-like room, furnished only with a small table and
two chairs. She then announced that she is a "phrenologist," and
exhibited a plaster bust with the "bumps" scientifically marked
out, and also some phrenological charts and other publications.
She proceeded to give the character of her visitor in the usual
mode of phrenological examinations, after which she prophesied as
follows:

"You were born between Jupiter and Mars, with such stars you can
never be unlucky, for although you have seen trouble, it is past.
Your luck runs in threes and fives--that is, you are unlucky three
years in succession, and lucky the five years following. You are
never _very_ unlucky, but you do not do so well in your third
house as in your fifth house. You could not be unlucky in your
fifth house if you tried. You have now two months to run in your
third house, then comes on your fifth house. Just now your life
seems to be under a cloud, but after two months you will come out
bright and will enjoy five years of clear sunshine, and you will
then be very wealthy. You will have more money then than you ever
will again, though you will always have plenty. Your wealth runs
14 at the end of five years; after that runs 131/2, which is very
wealthy. You will marry a young girl, wealthy and beautiful. You
will raise two daughters, but you will never have a large family.
You will be the father of many children, but your family will
never be more than two children. You will go in business with a
very wealthy Southern man, his wealth runs 14--he has two sons and
a daughter. You will marry the daughter, though you will be
opposed by the father and one son, but the other son will stick
by you. You will live with that wife twenty-five years, then she
will die and you will trave