... believe. Peter had , been pantaloon at our house for years, And he continued to be engaged for Christmas long after he was past his a work. But a Christmas came when even long and faith- , ful services would no longer balance Peter's infirmity, which ...

... CHRISTMAS WORK & CHRISTMNIAS 2 - WATS. { sca BREAKFASTS FOR THE POOR. A Mhe For several years past a number of influentialI ofgentlemen have formed a committee for the purpose IL List of giving a6 substantial Christmnas breakfast to thie!L ter poorer ...

... le to tile season, ninece-pies, and vishes for 1 a merry Christmas and a happy New-year. It is only in the more primitive parts of the country that the oldien customs romain. 'The Christmas carols whichl were sulig about from door to door, for a week ...

... rf L -1 . aIR IN WL& ITH IE CHOCLE. PRESTON, SATURZDAY, DECE11BEP. 20, j CHRISTMAS. Father Christmas ! That is the name of the grand old personage whom Time once more announces the advent of. In a few days he will be here, and let the welcome given ...

... women. At the Central Refuge, Strangeways, Christmas Day ro was celebrated in accordance with the esual practice. tO0 Early in the morning, the 123 lads who li ve in the hehefuge received gifts of Christmas cards and' New ee Year's mottoes, and also Dairs ...

... and, in course of time, this practice became transferred to the Christmas festivities, now only recognised in the custom of drinking healths or ?? Eco.onemist. CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.-Christmas festivities are essentially of a social character; but that they ...

... CHRISTMAS. ' - I _I . g For some time we had been anticipating this year an oldfashioned Christmas, $th the appropriate sur roundings of snow ;ind ice. Something like a fortnight ago a sharp frost set in, and it continued so steadily that the higher reacoes ...

... I1 CHRISTMAS. CAxvoas.-Carol is said to be' deoived from Cantare, to sing, and rola, an interjection of joy. Tihe song of tbe angels wss the first carol, and anciently bishops carolled among their clergy at Christmas. An old shect of Christ- mas Carols ...

... I CHRISTMAS. l Vi iwe'll keep our merry Christmas still.', U pi1 How rapid the passage-how brief the stay! Oia Fathet' Th Chi istma:s has come and gone. The music of village hells 1 and the rare peals of grind old cathedrals, annoanced 9al his approach ...

... Sovereign herself. :Howv, under such circumstances, can we wish each other A merry Christmas. It is a sad Christmas, a thoughtful Christmas, but it must not be a despairing Christmas. True, we have had domestic calamity, and we have the prospect of foreign war ...

... Julklapp, or Yule-klapp, which signifies h literally Christmas-box, and in the wrapper t which encloses a Christmas gift. In the e = eastern counties the custom is still prevalent q at Christmas of enclosing gifts in boxes and t et leaving them outside ...

... said to flower [ once in a century. Of all pretty Christmas legends that of the Glastonbury thorn planted there, Heaven knows why or when, by Joseph of Arimathea, and which blossoms only on Christmas eve, is one of the most mtiggestive. It points to the ...