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HOLIDAY EDITION.
DKNISON,
TRXAR
CIlItlSTMAS AMJ CCI'll).
King, Oliridtmim ctiimcH, rinj? merrily !
Your music kcomH to wiy—
"Ui ntlr yoursuiven rltflit cheerily
To woloome CliiiKtmuN Day."
IIurrali! hnrrali for Cliri.stmuB!
Shout, happy ({iris and boy*—
Hurrah ! hurrah tor ('liriHtmuH !
Ami all Iiih micial joys.
Leave wrinkled caio toi-Ruken
While Chrintma reign*on earth;
Lot song and dunco awaken
The apirit of Immiim mirth.
Bind fast the laurel Hliiiiiux
In leafy, dark array;
Let fingers deft, be twining
PestooiiH and garlamlH gay ;
Make hnnte and bring the holly,
Adornod with berriea red,
Now in the time for Folly
To turn dear Wisdom's head—
For old and young together
Are brimming o or with fun,
And everybody's clever,
^ And wondrous things are done.
•
Bold youth, impetuous rushes
Beneath the mistletoe
With laughing girls, whose blushex
So swiftly come and go;
The stolen Kisses are pleasures
As sweet as sweet can be—
Who would not steal such treasures
_ When every thief goes free V
Except, perchance, when wily
Don Cupid takes his aim
At youthful hearts, and slyly
Flays out his naughty game.
O, then I ween the losses
_ Of wounded and of slain
Ensure more clasps and crosses
Than warriors e'er obtain.
While manhood's form discloses
The giory of its noon,
While maiden's cheeks have roses
Outrivaling those of June;
Come sunshine or come shadows,.
Come frost or Summer's glow,
Sir Cupid speeds his arrows
From his strong, unerring bow
And while the chimes are riuging
To bring old Christmas in,
Love to himself is singing—
"My chirm's will soon begin."
The Christmas boll reminds us,
In music blithe and clear,
How Time has slipped behind us
With every circling year1;
Hut bridal bells have voif.es
Mellifluous in their tone,
And mated love rejoices
To call them his alone.
THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL.
I In IMtffioiiH, Jttaralund Snelal Stffiilflcunve* *
The* year is full of anniversaries. I
and any change would only be from one
! doubtful day to anothor still moro
doubtful.
There was, in the days when Chris-
| tianity was beginning to spreud among
the Pagan nations of Europe, a desire
! on the part of missionaries to accommo-
| date, in all that was innoeent and unob-
j jactionable, the new religion to the eus-
j toma of the people among whom they
; preached. MWhether or not they were
justified in this it is unnecessary to in-
quire ; that they did so is an established
fact. It was the practico among all
idolatrous nations to celebrate the be-
ginning of the year with rejoicings in
honor of their l'abled deities. Logs
were burnt and beasts were slain, and
houses hung with evergreens. To yield
up these practices was uncongenial to a
semi-barbarous people, although tliey
were ready enough to change their faith.
To meet tho predilections of these races,
the Christmas festival might very well
be held in December, and tho hospitali-
ty and merry-making be still allowed,
though for a different object than that
for which they were originally estab-
lished. It needs no great antiquarian
research to show that the Yule log blazed
in honor of Northern deities—that the
wassail bowl was quaffed in proi.'.o of
Wodiri and Thor—that the mistletoe
was collected, cut down with a silver
knife by white-robed priests of heathen-
ism -that Scandinavians, and Anglo-
Saxons, and Druids, and ancient Ro-
mans, and Greeks, and Egyptians cele-
brated customs very similar to Christ-
mas customs long before there was any
Christmas festival to keep.
Henee we find a number of curious
superstitions about Christmas and the
New Year—superstitions which havo
had their origin in Paganism, though
some of them have been adopted, and,
as it were, christened by tho Church of
the Middle Ages. Hamlet says:
"Rome pay that never 'fjalnst that fwa«on comes
Who if in our Savior'H birth ia celobratori,
The bird of dawning singeth all ni^ht long;
And they say no spirit stirs abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no strike,
>i*o fairy takes, no wJtch lias power to charm*
So hallow id and so gracious is tho time."
It used to be asserted that at Christ-
mas time not only was the cock "merry,"
but the owl for twelve days was spright-
From the first of January to the lasttji
day of December we have annual festi- f
vals and annual feasts, or days thut I
might bo so observed if we coinmemo-1, , , , . ., ,, , .
, ,,,,, , , . , . , . I ly, and conducted itself after a fashion
rated all tho events which took place: , , . . .,
,, „ . . , singularly at variance with its usually
upon them. Centuries ago, when these | . . , . .. ,, , . . , , '
* , ' ,, | exclusive habits. At twelve o clock oil
things were more cared for than they ,,, . _ ,
... . „ „ , , . , I Christmas Eve nil water was said to
are now, a goodly host of lasts and feasts ., , . ..
, , . . .'blush, and tor a moment turn to wine;
had to bo given up in consequence ot i .. , . ... , . ,
, , , ! the bees in their luves were heard to
the interruption to labor which their . , , . , .,
. , . , i sing; dumb animals were gilted with
cfaistant recurrence occasioned. And , , ,, , , .
, , „ speech, and that oxen knelt down in
now-a-days we observe but very few. •, ,. .. , , , , ,, ,
, ' . . , , . adoration; tho dead trees put lorth t«n-
The Christmas festival commemorates , , , , . , , ,,
, der buds of hope, and subterranean bells
the birth of our Savior, and has been so • . ... „ „ ,
, , „ , , . . | were heard singing sweetly and sottlv
observed tor more than twelve centuries. , .,
... ... .■ ,, , t1 i for the birth of our Lord!
But it is important to notico that the '
25th of December is not to be taken as j Tht!S« «lnnint superstitions were held
the actual day of the Nativity-it sini-1 w,th tenacity by many honest country
ply commemorates that event; the aetu- J folks' ""urthoy h,ld 1,eon >«">iHbed from
Hi day is unknown, and the difference of jtho l,0lmlnr 11 was a s<'rt, <1 thnt
opinion on this subject is remarkable, j uftcr tho "Iteration of the style, the ox-
A similar diversity of opinion prevails j
as to the year.
The early Christians placed the bap-
tism of Christ about the beginning of i two oldest oxen fall upon their knees
he Roman Empe- i at twelve °'clot,k- 1111,1 "milke 11 cr«,:1
moan like Christian creatures." Per-
en stil' persisted in adhering to tlio old
Christmas Eve, mid one good man went
so far as to state that ho had witnessed
the fifteenth year of the Roman Empi
ror Tiberius, and lience, reckoning back i
thirty years, they placed his birth in the lmP9 if the 8°.od mun 1,11,1 ^atclie.1 every
niglit, he might have seen the same
^ r
i oveu superstition became subordinate to
tho good influences of the season. Over
i everything, however dark and danger-
ous it was supposed to be, tho great
Christian festival wrought powerfully
| for good.
The ancient hospitality was conduct-
ed on a magnificent scale. There were j
I open houses kept by all who had the
, wherewithal to give; the cooks and turn-
spits had heavy work to do; and logs
blazed bravely in the hall, where knight
and squire, baron and bishop, serf and
vassal, the traveler and stranger, master
and servant, sat down togethorand niado
merry. But there was always something
iu the feast to tell of its commemorative
character. The carolers who sang of
"comfort and joy" dwelt on tho events
related in the Gospels or embodied in
tradition; the boar's head, the Yule log,
tho evergreens, were all supposed to be
significant of Christian mystery; but
most, of all, and best of all, was the spir-
it of good-will and charity which pre-
vailed, and dealt an ampler largesse to
tho poor on this than any other feast
day.
A Start/ of Andrew JackHon. >
The keeper of a boarding-house here,
when Andrew Jackson was president,
waited on him one day and complained
that a Tennesseean, who had been ap-
pointed by him to a clerkship in one
of tho departments, would not pay a
board bill.
"Gi t his note," said old Hickory, "for
the full amount, interest included, pay-
able in sixty days, and bring it to me."
"That will be of no use," replied the
boarding-house keeper, "for he never
pays his notes."
"Do as I tell you, sir," said Jackson,
and turned away.
The next day the boarding-house
keeper reappeared at the White House J
and banded the note to the president.
Ho took it, read it, wrote "Andrew!
Jnckann" across the back in his well- j
known autograph, and handed it back,|
saying:
"Take that to the bank of the Metrop- j
olts, and tell them for me that at its ma- j
turity it will be paid by either the draw- |
er or endorser. They will discount it
for you."
A few days afterwards the man who |
had given the note mot his creditor and |
tauntingly said:
"Well, I don't suppose you have been
able to negotiate my paper?"
"Yes," replied the boarding-house |
keeper, "I had no trouble in getting it
discounted at legal rates of interest."
"Who in thunder is willing to dis-
count my notes?" asked tho Tennes-
seean.
"The bank of the Metropolis dis-
counted the one you gave me, upon the
assurance that if you did not pay it the
endorser would."
"But. who would endorse my note?"
"General Jacks m, and he sent word
to the bank that if you did not pay the
note he would."
It is hardly necessary to add that the
note was promptly paid by the maker.
—Washing ton Letter to Bonton Jour-
nal.
forty-third year of the Julian period, the
forty-second of Augustus, and the twen-
thing; tired oxen will rest themselves,
ty-eighth after the victory of Actium.1 wnd aro 1,ot ahva^ sill,nt-
This opinion generally prevailed until ' The Christmas superstitions already
the beginning of the sixth century,! mentioned were not of any baneful in-
wlien Dionysirus Exiqus invented the j fluence; but it was supposed that., in
present style. No less than one hun-! revenge for the restraint put upou tlieni
dred and forty different opinions have ® oil Christmas day, the powers of dark-
been advanced as to the exact year | ness became afterwards the more ram-
when the event took place. Some of j pant. Olans Magnus, Metropolitan of
these are preposterously absurd; others | Sweden, declared that about Christmas
deserving of attention on account of i time there was a strange mutation of
their show of probability; but all of | men into animals, in the cold, northern
them open to the criticism of chronolo- j parts of the country; that ifi a certain
gists. The taxing under Augustus, how-1 place, and on a certain night, there was
ever, fixes the date within a circum-111 gathering of a huge multitude of
scribed limit, and the precise year is of: wolves, that were changed from men—
no positive importance. I men who had made beasts of themselves
The day of the birth has offered an ! at Christmas—and who, during that
opportunity for a diversity of opinion 1 night, raged with such fierceness against
which has placed it in every mouth of mankind that the people suffered more
tho year. Tho Egyptian Christians i hurt from tlieni tliuu they ever did from
held that it fell in January, and accord-' "natural true wolves." The winter soa-
ing to the new style of reckoning, Rus-
sia which still adheres to the old style,
lias her Christmas festival in January.
Wagenseil insists on tho birth having
occurred in February; Bochart in March;
and several authors, quoted by Clement
of Alexandria, in April. Other learned
men have placed it in May. Epiphanius
speaks of some who placed it in June,
and of others who held that it happened
iu July. Wagenseil, not quite sure as
to February being the right month, sug-
gests that it might be August. Light-
foot places it on the 15th of September;
Sealigor and others in October; others
again in November; tho Latin Church
son in tho north is very well known to
be severe enough to render tho wolves
so bold in their depredations as to bring
them near, and even into the towns in
scrch of food; and this no doubt origi-
nated tho fable. At Christmas time, or
on the Eve of the New Year, it was sup-
posed possible for a maiden to summon,
by certain charms, not her own person-
al charms, which are allowable witchery
—her future husband to her side; and
dismal stories were told, with tragical
endings, as to what became of those
presumptuous wenches who thus sought
to find out before the time who was
coming to woo them. Another super-
in December. At one period the 5th of j stition took tho form of requiring every
December was declared to be tho prop-
er anniversary, and the feast was sol-
emnized at Cyprus on that day iu the
foiu'th century. Tho 25th of December
was at length decided to be the appro-
priate season for the anniversary; and,
although serious objections may be
urged against this being tho real day,
,«• even the actual month, the commem-
) ration may as well be observed then as
i any other time, especially as it has
een recognized for so long a period,
"spinal r" to finish tho work upon her
wheel before Christmas, lest at her wed-
ding day her wheel slould follow her to
church and twit her with idleness. She
might, however, conjure down tho sprite
of the wheel by spriukling a little salt
over it; for salt, in all superstitious prac-
tices, was held to triumph over every-
thing evil.
It is curious to traco these supersti-
tions clinging around the Christmas
festival, but it is pleasing to kuow thut
"A Frif)U1ful Example."
"Twenty years ago," said the passen-
ger with a red ribbon in his buttonhole,
"I knew that; man whom you saw get
off at tho Inst station. Ho was a young-
man of rare promise, a college graduate,
a man of brilliant intellect and shrewd
mercantile ability. Life dawned before i
him in all the golden colors of fair j
piomise. He had sonio money when j
he left college. He invested it in Vmsi- |
. i
ness, and his business prospered. He
married a beautiful young girl, who'
bore him three lovely children"—The j
sad-looking passenger, sitting on the j
wood-box: "All at one time?" The |
red-ribbon passenger: "No; in foien-1
nial instalments of one. No one j
dreamed that the Poor-house would,
ever be their homo. But in an evil;
hour the young man yielded to the >
tempter. He began to drink beei\ He !
liked it, and drank more. He drank,,
and encouraged others to drink. That |
was only fourteen years ago and he was j
a posperous, wealthy man. To day, i
where is he?" The clegyman in the |
front seat, solemnly: "A sot and beg-
gar." The red-ribbon man, disconso-
lately: "Oh, no; he is a member of
congress, and owns a brewery worth
$50,000." Sometimes it will happen
that way.—Burlington Ilaivkeye.
"Did you steal the complainant's
coat?" asked a magistrate of a seedy
individual who was arraigned before
him. 'I decline to gratify the morbid cu-
riosity of the public by answering that
question,' responded tho seedy individ-
ual, .vith a glance at the reporters.
Thr small boy of to-day doesu't look
up to Gcorye Washington and Benja-
min Franklin as examples. No, he
thinks his big brother, who lights a ci-
gar in the house, goes out any time, and
returns when he feels like it, is a good
enough example for him.
Antony Comstook, quasi-guardian of
the morals of New York, is becoming
such a prudo that he threatens to arrest
tho "naked truth" and stop tho circula-
tion of "bare assertion."—.Norrhtown
Hearhl.
YotTNa man, iu beginning a court-
ship bo sure you don,t write, and then
go uhead.
THE CHJtlHTMA8 Mill'.
A Story Fov t hlhh'cu.
It was Christmas time, and of course
the Aubreys wore going to give a party
—a childron's party. And of all the
festive gatherings I ever was at, I think,
those at the Grange, where the Aubreys
lived, wore without doubt tlio pleasant-
est. All sorts of merry games were in-
cluded, and a magic lantern with the
most wonderful slides you can imagine;
snap dragon and forfeits, and blind
man's buff, and hot boiled beans to
music. The Joyces came, and the
Benningliams, and Leonards, and ever
so many more, iucluding of course,
Ned Gower, Tom Aubrey's school-fel-
low, who had no friends in town and
must consequently have stopped away
all the holidays if somebody had not
asked him to visit tho city.
The preparations for the party were,
I think, almost as amusing as
the party itself; the sly business that
was going on to get up little surprises
was quite delightful, and then the
pleasant suggestions that were offered
in debate were a great, deal more cheer-
ful than debates held in another place,
ut which you will hear more as you
grow up.-
When Tom arrived from school with
Ned—sly fellow, Tom—he came in the
back way, crept iu at the laundry door,
and created quite a surprise by his
sudden appearance, when Tom arrived,
he had his suggestion to offer, and he
did it in such fine offhand style, that if it
could not be recommended for imita-
tion on the score of elegance, was at
all events hearty.
"A jolly Christmas ship," said Tom,
"that's tho time o'day. How is it none
of you girls thought of that!"
"How did you think of it yourself,
Tom ?"
"Never you mind about that," Tom
replied. "Salute tho Admiral—atten-
tion!" He pointed to Ned Gower, a
delicate looking, and yellow coni-
plexioned lad. of whom I told you, and
Ned, looking rather shy, it must be
owned, said:
"It was I that thought of the ship."
"Bravo, Admiral!"
"But where can we find the ship?"
This from all the children in a breath.
"I am the ship builder," said Ned,
"and with Tom's help it looks almost
as handsome"—lie turned to cousin
Jessie, who well deserved the compli-
ment, and added—"as you."
They -.11 laughed at this, for the lit-
tle fellow put it so oddly. But they
were far more anxious to seo the ship
than to listen to line speeches.
"Where is the ship?"
"Where?" says Tom, "in dry-dock, of
course, waiting to be rigged an never yet
a vessel ha.-, been rigged, that I have
heard of. Come, look sharp. Jones."
Jones was the groom, stableman, un-
der-gardner, and what not; ho was out-
side in the passage with a great box on
his shoulder grinning with good hu-
mor, knowing well the treasure that the
box contained. Admonished to look
sharp, he left off grinning and brought
in the box, placed it on the floor, took
off the lid, and brought out—
Oh! enchanting sight! As fair a model
of a ship as you could wish to see,
bristling at every port-hole with can-
non; light tapering masts and cross
trees, a slender jib-boom, and every-
thing just as in a real ship, with all the
tackling, taut and trim, and every inch
of canvas set to catch a favorable
breeze.
You may well imagiuo what rapture
the appearance of this ship excited, and
what enlogium was passed on the
ship builder. After a little while every-
body wanted to know why it should be
called a Christmas Ship, and Torn ex-
plained.
"Why don't you see, we'vo had so
many Christmas trees, and they arc to
be seen everywhere—quite a Christmas
forest—that wo thought a ship got up
in the same sort of a way would be a
novelty—just as pretty if not more so,
than the fir. Come, let's see the trink-
ets."
Tho girls had been thinking of get-
ting up a Christmas tree, and were
quite prepared with showy little articles
with which to decorate the ship; but it
was to bo kept a profound secret from
papa. He had been in tho soa-faring
line, and this would be a charming sur-
prise to him. Jones had been caution-
ed in this singular formula, delivered
by Tom, "Jones, keep dark;" and .Tones,
though he was flaxen-headed, had said,
"Dark I am, young master."
It was a pleasant work, decorating
the ship with the trinkets, suspending
them from every cross tree, stitching
them to every sail—Ned called this
"tacking"—and altogether giving to the
ship the most extraordinary appearance
you ever beheld in your life. It was
delightful to watch how eantiously^tlie
work was done, lest papa—denominated
the "enemy" for that time only—
should suddenly run down the faithful
traitors. Consequently a man—that Is
to say, a little girl—was kept on tl.e
look-out. But the enemy did not veer
in sight; there was iudecd, at one time
a cry of, "Sail, ho! to windward," ex-
pressed in the unprofessional luiiguage
of, "pa's comiug down tho garden;"
but it turned out a false alarm.
Finally, the work was finished and
stowed away under cover in the back
parlor. Honor bright! nobody to lift
the cover, not oven papa, till the word
was given by Tom, who called himself
"M. C.," which might, as ho remarked,
bo taken for "Master of tho Ceremoni-
es," or "Merry Christmas." which ever
yoa pleased. Then the party time ar-
rived, and the Joyces came, and the
Leonards, and ever so many more.
There was tea, of course, and there was
great fuu over it, and then Tom and
Neil disappoard, and all was expecta-
tion.
A shrill whistle —a little flush comes
upon papa's cheek, it sounds so like a
boatswain's "Pipe, all hands;" then the
doors—they are double doors, you
know—fly opon, and there in all its
glory, is the ship, with little blue lights
blazing round it, and close beside it,
in Jack Tar dress, is Ned. Ned jerks
his canvas ducks, pnlls his forelock, and
presents a letter to Mr. Aubrey, who is
really surprised this time. But he
opens tho letter, and tears start to his
eyes as he reads:
Dear and Honored Sir:—Please ac-
cept my little ship; it is not worth any-
thing, I know; but making it—I made
it myself—I havo thought all along
that you would be kind enough to take
it from the friendless boy in the strange
land, tw whom you have been so kind.
Ever, dear and honored sir, yours affec-
tionately,
Ned Gower.
Before them all Aubrey lifted tho
young gentlemen, iu his sailor trim,
right up in his strong arms and kissed
him; and then he thanked him, and
claimed him for a brother seaman, and
they all shouted till the drops in the
chandeliers trembled, aud seemed to
ring a fairy peal on their account.
And this was how I first saw a Christ-
mas ship. It had "Gratitude" for its
name; and it was, as I before remarked,
the neatest, prettiest model you might
wish to imitate.
It is given out that ladies will wear
vests exactly like tho gentleman's this
winter. When a married man goes to
bed lie will have to put a chalk mark on
his vest, or next morning he may slip on
his wife's and not. discover his mistake
until he inserts his thumb and forefin-
ger in the right hand pocket for a pinch
of fine-cut and finds nothing but. apiece
of chewing-gum and a stub of a soft
black lead pencil. Then he will sudden-
ly remember that, there was a roll of
ten dollar greenbacks in the left hand
pocket of his vest—that is. if ho is an
editor, he will—and he will rush back
home in Earns time.
a masked burglar entered a room
where a man and his wife lay asleep.
They both awoke, when the robber
pointed his pistol at their heads and
backed out with his plunder. The start-
led sliimberers were terribly frightened,
"the man's hair turning white before
morning.' The woman was as much
scared as her husband, but upon exam-
ining her hair which had hung over the
back of a chair, it was found to have not
changed a particle. Something strange
about this.—Xorrixlovn Herald.
The price of a wife among tho Sioux
Indians is twenty ponies. And when
the young brave has won tho girl anil
got her father's consent at ruling rates,
and the only thing that remains is to
plank down the ponies, h-.'sits down and
sometimes occupies a whole night think-
ing whether he had better steal the po-
nies from his own father or the girl's.
He generally steals them from his pro-
spective father-in-law.—Burlington
Haickege.
"Sylvania" sends us a gem begin-
ning, "Ah! must wo seek another heart,
wherein to warm our love?' We are
afraid you must. We've rented our
apartment for a number of years, and
the tenant requires all tlio fuel and
every inch of stove room in the estab-
lishment. We'll give you a recommend-
ation. though, if that will help you any.
—Joliet (III.) Ilcjniltliran.
"William," observed a Milwaukee
woman toiler husband, "Mrs. Holeomb
feels pretty badly now, since the loss of
her child, and I wish you would drop
over there and see her. You might say
that all flesh is grass; that we've all got t o
go the same way; and see if she is going
to use her dripping-pan this afternoon."
The total cotton spindles in the north
are now estimated at about 9,900.000,
and in the south at 000,000, or a total in
the country of say 10,500,000. Of the
G8,000.000 spindles employed in the
manufacture of cotton in 1878, the
United States had in round numbers
10,000,000. and Great Britain 40,000,000.
The Cedar Falls Gazette says a jus-
tice of the peace at New Hartford mar-
ried a couple the other day, and the
groom asked him his terms atter the
knot was tied. "Well," said the justice,
"the ende allows me two dollars."
"Then," wiid the young man, here's a
dollar; that will make you three."
The second night after her first, hus-
band died she sat by the opeu chamber
window five hours waiting for the cats
to begin fighting in the back yard. Said
she: "This thing of going to sleep with-
out a quarrel of some kiud is so new
that I can't stand it. Let me alone till
they begin; then I can doze off gently."
"Do yon at any future time intend to
; be a king?" is now among tho questions
, asked the man who is getting his life
insured.
j Whether great or small, put that man
down for a fool who boasts that he does
I not read the local papers.
H IT A N/J WISDOM.
Oystkiis have a language of their own,
and claims stew.
Thk sky, unlike man, is most cheer-
ful when the bluest.
cpbn is king! Yes, corn is acliing
most of the time.
Why is a dog like a tree?—Because
both lose their bark when dead.
If anything will reduce a full grown
fat man it is a well-directed bank failure.
In furnishing a house the most hat-
ruck-tive furniture should be placed in
the hall.
The individual who was accidentally
injured by the discharge of his duty is
still very low.
She returned his love, but even then
he wasn't satisfied. She said she did
not want it.
It may sound like a parodox, yet the
breaking of both wings of an army is a
sure way to make it fly.
The New York Herald tells of 'an
American young lady of 18 springs.'
Probably her name is Sofy.—Boston
Pout.
Mary Andebson cleared $1,200 in
New Haven, which she thinks will keep
lier in chewing gum for some time to
gum.
j Sweedlepipes thinks that instead of
j people giving credit to whom credit
| credit is due, the cash had better bo
j paid.
A little boy, seeing for the first time
la pile of lobsters, exclaimed, "Oo-ee!
them's tlio biggest grasshoppers I ever
I seen!"
Montellieii, a notary, and Baron de
j Chaffoy, to whom the means of escape
j were offered, refused to avail themselves
| of them.
j The man who goes to church simply
j because he has nothing to do, may not
I be a heathen, but he is certainly an idle
: worshipper.
"Have you cologne?" she asked. "No,
[ ma'am" replied the druggist; "I have
no scents at all." She said he did't
look as though he had.
We don't believe Job was such an aw-
| ful patient man after all. He never tried
I to collect money due on subscriptions
j to a country newspaper.
A little girl was asked tho meaning
I of the word happy. She said: "It is to
| feel as if you wanted to give all your
; things to your little sister.'
Senator David Davis slipped on a
banana peel the other day, and a small
| dog that was trotting in his rear was
i flattened out like a book mark.
Dancing is the part of the religion
of a certain sect. If your girl becomes
j a convert to this form of worship, the
j best thing you can do is to shaker.
As soon as a young man can make kin
i girl belief that rolled plate jewelry
protects the wearer from lightning he is
: all O. Iv. for Christmas.—Free Press.
The Detroit Free Press says that
every coal dealer in Cincinnati belongs
to the church. They must be a coal-
! blooded lot of Christians.^—Boston
Post.
"Guilty or not guilty?'asked a dutch
justice of a prisoner at the box. "Not
guilty,' he replied. "Den go about mit
your business, what der tvful do you
here?'
! A cleroyman out West has been
; found guilty by a church council of "not
; al ways handling the truth with suffici-
\ ant. carefulness to moet the demands of
j veracity."
| An ox that had been eating ferment-
| ed grain, which was in preparation for
j making ale, became intoxicated and was
offered for sale by his owner as "corn-
j ed" beef.
A gentleman who lias a scolding
i wife, in answer to an inquiry after her
I health, said she was pretty well, only
subject at times to a "breaking out in
; the mouth."
All the signers of the Declaration of
Independence signed their names with
S quill pens except one—he signed his
| Withei'spoon.—Boston Journal of
| Commerce.
" Sin e,' said a Frenchman, wishing to
display his knowledge ot the English
language, "did it rain to-morrow?' "Yes,
Sare,' was the equally bombastic reply,
"yes, sare, it vos.'
"Close up, my dears,' said the stage
manager to the ballet corps, at a "dress
rehearsal;' and Spicer said if they did
"clothes up' any more, he would leave
out of respect to Mrs. S.
When you send a paper to a young
lady, cut a small item out, no matter
what. This insures the office the side of
another paper. She has got to see what
was cut out if it takes a week to find
out.
The small boy who bade good-bye
to Sunday-school just after the picnio
is now making a desperate effort to re-
gain his standing in time for the com-
ing Christmas treo.—New Haven Reg'
if tor.
"It's all very well," said a henpecked
husband, when told to look after t,h«
children, "it's all very well to tell mo
to mind the youngsters; but it would
suit me better if the youngsters would
: mind me."
j An increasing demand for print cloths
I is encouraging the Fall River inanufac-
| tnrers. The stock on hand there at tho
j elosc of business on Saturday night of
last, week was 132,000 pieces. Sales du-
ring the week, 133,000; production,
145,000.
The fighting grounds in Afghanistan
is historic. Alexander the Great spent
much time on the Oxus and established
' a colony at Canduhar, the capital of
! Central Afghanistan, founded there u
i city. On the march to the Indus, he
foitght his wa\ through the passes, for
whose possession the English are now
struggling.
A doctor wont ont hunting, and ou
I coming home complained that he
hadn't killed anything. "That's be-
cause you didn't attend to your legiti-
l mate business, said his wife.
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Denison Daily News. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 264, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 31, 1878, newspaper, December 31, 1878; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329264/m1/3/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.