... CIHRISTMAS. It needed but the sprinkling of snow on the ground onr Monday to furnish a Christmas of the traditional type. The air was keen and criso, and during tile night hard frost. had prevailed. With a clear sky above, from wrhich the sna shone brightly ...

... CHRISTMAS DAY. * Ailemioe] withthe tradititiliF-hristtez h -ib6 the reriep, clear, eager air, mippiug with ketu fiost, snow-clad landssapev, and the large falling flakes of the frozen cryswts. Slcarely any of these were present on the Christmas of 1894 ...

... SALES OF CHRISTMAS CATTLE. I I~~~ SHOW AND SALE AT TORPHINS. Yesterday at Torphies the tbird annual llhow and sale of fat cattle, organieed by the Central Auction Mart Company, Aberdeen, took place, and, com- pared with those of the two pievious years ...

... CATTLE FOR THE CHRISTMAS iMARKET. I~ve fat slock from thenotwi h of this week be on their way in the usua large lau numbers fromt the north of Scotl~ad bound for the great Metropolitan Christmtas Market. Exrtensive St as the consignments will be, as far ...

... CHRISTMAS SUICIDES IN IZOME. I..- nE Duelling and suicides are not suitable for Christmas ry festivities, yet we had a little of both before the close ba of the year. Deputies and journalists seem to patronise ur ., the duel, and indeed frequently use ...

... CHRISTMAS SHOW AND SALE AT STON EIHAVEN. Messrs Brown & Murray, auctioneers, on Wednes- day hIlii their Christmas show and sale of fat stock in the auction mart, which proved to be the beat ever held at Stonehaven. The entries were large, most of the ...

... old in the habit of mnonev-netting, and who was not open to the genial influences of the Christmas sea- son. the author caused to be visited bv the spirit of Christmas past, Christ mas present, and Christmnci to come; the effect pro- daced by which visit ...

... TRP.EE more deaths. Four deaths now resulted from the explosion at Scow, Croft & Son's colliery, Kearsley, near Bolton, on Christmas Eve. Thomas Long, who was third to succumb, died yesterday morning, and Allan Lee in the afternoon. Three others of those ...

... lordship's country seat, returned to London yesterday afternoon. The President of the Board of Trade will go away for the Christmas holidays. Mr A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, passed through London yesterday evening en route from the west of ...

... last, and in another applica- a tion made an order that she should save the custody of the child for three weeks during the Christmas Y vacation. The child was now of such an age that, X accorning to our law, there would be a change in her le legal position ...

... of a time-honoured Enalish superstitution akin to this - ' 'o thindle the Christmas brand, and then Till suiset let it burn: i Which quencbt, then lay it up again Till Christmas nexb return. i Part must be kept wherewith to teend (light) aI The ChrLtmas ...

... children to the pantomimes; and also to the wife cf Provost Wilson for furnishing the usual Christmas tree the children. Thanks likewise given Mr for Christmas gilts to the children. THE STATE OF THUGS MERRYFLATS. Mr called Attention tbe last that no report ...