... many- a year. had soolong.,a-step been' tahken 'i the direction' of that univeysal reign of Peace and Goodowill of which Christmas is an ever-recurring prophecy. Two significant items of intelligence come from India. 'The AUERR of Afghanistan ig seriously ...

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... CHRISTMAS. ins The festival of Christmas is again near. Its ap- I rme proach has been heralded this year with rain and te edstorm, depressing the mind, and producing the E Lng feeling that the elements of nature are darklyw ,ht shadowing forth the events ...

... THE fjORTHERN gCHO. ZFMIDA {, DECE'MBER'I 24, IbSJ. CHRISTMAS. UEaISTENDoiE has donned its winter , galb. Her churches are gay with leaf and flower and fruit, and the intertwined in- geriptions proclaimr glad tidings of great joy. She stands in an ...

... to make it as far as possible a merry and a happy Christmas, and -ia theab'ence of those out-door amusements the ice-ponda would afford-to find enjoyment exclusively in the especial sphere of Christmas, the social circle. That all may to thelr bherts' ...

... journalist Y Christmas Eve is the saddest day in the year. 89 After 'writing Christmas articles for a quarter eof a century he may well be excused if pain es and anguish wring the brow when he is )d excogitating a twenty-sixth Christmas article. But ...

... similar treat will be provided on Christmas Day, but the Christmas amusements and presentation of toys, &c., will take place on the afternoon of Friday ?? Year' E-ve. [ADERTISEENTS.] Mr. Robinson, Windsor-street, has a Christmas show of meat, consisting of ...

... ABROAD. FRIDAY. Dxo. 25. I CHRISTMAS. I IN those good old times ?? When ChristmoB gambols oft would cheer, The poor man's heart for half the year, we suppose it was not less true than it is in these prosaic days that Christmas was not, and cannot be, a ...

... drug in the market. The CHRiSTMAS of 1856 may well, therefore, be observed as a Season of solemn thanksgiving and of national hope; and while we may, for the reasons we have hinted at, omit our annual greeting of a erry CHRISTMAS, there is nothing in ...

... traders shall not be preseioed or met on our artificial Christmas day, yet, a u trust, theirs will be the only exception to thec general rule ; and we are not without hope tbat, in 180, ;when Christmas-day will once more fall upon a Sunday, a short act of ...

... AS. w Christmas has come round once more, and a season of at Social festivity reigns paramount. It is a time a when we may well afford to be merry, and forget for A the nonce the busy cares and turmoils o'r business andat every.day life. Christmas has becomeasa ...

... expeeted to stonu the ralaie aond Iron the linen. Why does a beggr whese ganment has been tora by! e dog resemble a Juveolie ChrIstmas part -Bcause 4c has ae Spplied rpg on. Why rites bolly decorate the walln during the days of Chlisinmas?-Bacause those are ...