The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-01-03
Some unco' blate, and some wi CABS
Gan lasses' hearts gang startin,
Whites fast at night.


lessness of metropolitan life, cannot appreciate the
real comforts and enjoyments which flow from what
the fashionable world would call rustic amusements-
But the early associations of the Caedonian Bard ell
abled him to enter fully into their simpler sports,
with all the truth and simplicity OF nature. And with
some allowance for unimportant circumstances and
peculiarlties, the leading features of society i'll the
humber walks Of life in farming towns, 1--WE
speak not of villages,) probably much the same
in Scotland. And sure we are, that many fash
ion BILE beau and BELLE could they witness when
observed the simpler anusements of the winter
ings in the country-the innocent gaiety and mrth-
the glow of health upon the cheek-the elastic step
the aressness of manners, and the undisguised good
nature and good will, unaloyed by feelings OF envy.
jealousy and prde-hev would confess that the stand
ard of human happiness, NAV be graduated by some
other scale than that OF the accomplishments and
artificial circulating and calculating civilities of
metropolitan intercourse.
Curious Popular Christmas Superstitioas-Am
the monksh legends and slperstons, which have
tinued down TO comparatively recent period in Eng
land, was that of the Glastonbury Thorn, growing up
on hill in the church-yard near the abbey. 1t
said to have sprung from the staff of st. Joseph Of
Arimathea, who having fixed it in the ground with his
own hand, Christmas day, the staff took root mne
diatey, put forth leaves, and the next day covered
with milk white blossoms. 1t added that shoots
forth buds Christmas eve, and blossoms on Christ
day. i gravely asserted in the London Even
ing Post, late l75S, that on Christmas Eve, New
Style) a concourse of people attended the noted
thorn, but to their great disappointment there was
appearance of its blowing, which made them watch it
narrowly the 9th of January, the Christmas day, (Old
Style) when it bloomed usual On the same even
ing, 1.-THE STYLE Christmas of 1859 above two thou
sand people went with lanterns and candles to view
thorn at Quainton, in BuckinghaInshire, which was
known to be slip from the Glastonbury thorn, and
which, also, had always budded on the cath, and bios
somed on the 25th. Like the parent stock, however,
became great that the ministers of the surrounding
parishes obliged to celebrate the old Christmas
day before The superstition had this for its Dun
dation-no more. hawthorn had been brought from
Aeppo, and planted in Glastonbury which blossomed
twice year-once in December January, if the
season was mild. This was cut down in the civil wars
Other thorns brought from the east have been found
The same as the Glastonbury thorn. N. Y. Com. Ado
Knorledge.--In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it
wherever it is to be found like FERN it is the pro-
duce of all climates, and like colo, its circulation Is
not restricted to any particular class. We gno-
rant in youth from idleness, and we continue so in
manhood from prde for pride IS less ashamed of be-
ing ignorant than of being instructed and she looks
too high TO find that which often lies beneath her,
Therefore condescend to of low estate, and be for
wisdom that which Alcibades was for power. He that
rings only one bell will hear but sound and he
that lives only with one class, will see but one scene