The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-31 00:00:00

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its first appear?nee, when
Its colour was red, and it pro,
with which place Bristol at. that
trade.—Notes and Queries.
DECKING CHURCHES, HOUK
GREENS AT CHRISTMAS.—This
appear to have copied from their Pai.
in his "Antiquities of the Comm,/,'
council of Bracara as forbidding Christians to deck the.
houses with bay leaves and green boughs, but this ex-
tended only to the same day observed by the Pagans.
Dr. Chaudler, in his "Travels in Greece," says that it is
related, when Druidism prevailed, the houses were decked
with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits

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might repair to them, an

cold wind

THE PRAYER. OF KIN
DEATH.—Lord God deliver r
wretched life, and tat
not my wil, but thy
spirit to thee. Oh Lord thou know

D VI BEFORE H

)ut of this

iserable

ne among thy chosen ; howbeit,
be done : Lord I commit my

est how happy it wet

vie and neauo, _ .
God blesqe thy people, eld say a .e inheritance.
Lord God save thy chosen peg i t England. 0 my
Lord God, defend this realm f m 'stry. and main-
trine thy true religion, _ n ‘ple ma)
thy holy name, for thy son Jesus Christ's sake.
Two Spanish officers recently met to fight a duelontsida
the gate of Bilboa, after the seconds had failed to reconcile
the belligerents. "We wish to fight—to fight to death,"
they replied to the representations of their comparions.
At this moment, a poor fellow, luoking like the ghost of
Romeo's apothecary, approached the seconds, and in a
lamentable voice said, " Gentlemen, I am a poor artisan,
scith a large family, end if you world—" "My good
man, don't trouble us now," cried one of the officers,
" don't you see my r.iende are going to spit each other ?
We are not in a charitable humour." "It is not elms I
yoa
any ask fur," said the man, " I am a poor carpenter, with

i and my people may praise

eight childien, end my N;fe ;9 sick ; Atold bav:ng heard
that those gentlemen were about to I-"' each other, I
thought of askiu you to let me make the coffins." At
these words, the individuals about to commence the com-
bat, burst into a fit of laughter, and, simonamously
throwing down their swords, shook hands with each other,
and walked away.
BURYING Euctio.—The students of Yele College, i
the United States have this year revved the old custom
of revenging themselves on tiler matbetuaticvl professors,
by " burying Euclid" at the commencement of the winter
fe slow. A student, wbo dates 1-om New Haven, gives
a graphic deactiption of the ceremony,:which reminds-one
of
.the amusement of the German students, as described
by Professor Longfellow :--" At the appointed hour, the
students began to spew.; e'l were ("sgrised in order to
prevent detection and probable dismissal rrom college
subsequently. An efficient fore• committee, well aimed.
took every precaution to bar the entrance to soy 4 tutor'
or ' spy'. Ere long, the door was closed end the solern-i-
-ties commenced. In the centre of the hall ky the black
coffin containing the corpse; vai ions diagrams sod figures
surrounded the remains. The skeleton of the defunc'
mathematician presided in a most lug-L.- •
After an introductory ode in Latin, came the otatto.
then a poem, songs, and music, ell educing a strong vein
of humour, and last of all the sermon. Then the pro-
cession was formed ; the coffin was carlied by four psi!.
bearers, eseoi.ed on either side by the force committee.
torches being abundant; the night was dark ; the music
good ; and the students overflowing with fun and jollity.
By a circuitous route they arrived at the funerel pyre.
Here the usual pantomime was executed. A hole is bored
through a copy of the corpse's works, and e'l take a I
that they may say that they have seen through it all o
they all work over it, in order that they may assert .4c
ir
they have been over once well, and many other siesili_l
jokes. The coffin is finally placed on the pile ; a pot*
ii offered to Pluto by a prit st in flowing robes : the Ogc
lighted and the dirge is lung. Soon the proce
again resumed, and all return to the city."—Leigh Via '
Journal, NQ. 1.

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