Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-04-18
April ana .ne First Tnsrsof May IN e.ensral, sum

not many hundred years before after, MARTIN
LUTHER took it into has head to reform the church.
The effects of the religious reformation matters
OF history, and serious people think deeply upon
the subject when they get into the bottom of WELL
but as it is not present intention to be Sc
rious than the circumstances of the may render
absolutely necessary, We will confne our deep
thoughts to the reformation of the calendar by GRE
CORY. which we look upon act of assault and
battery upon the months-a violation of the seasons
and fraud upon shivering humanity. What we
now call April is not the month of sunshine and
shower that the old poets used to sing about, and
the old women to talk about. According to the new
STYLE the computation of time is put forward nearly
a fortnight and some ten or twelve days of what
used to be March thrust upon us for April, and
thus We are cheated, humbugged, and bamboozed,
and even that good old day of All Fools" no lon
ger holds its ground but is ANONYMOUSLY deposed to
make room for the Goth of March of "Auld Lang
Syne" No wonder then that it is not kept up with
the proper spirit No wonder that the religious feel
ing of the people dies out when this most sacred
niversary is thus maltreated and abused We saw
but one effort to maintain constitutional usage and
ancient precedent upon that day. and, to give the
devil his due, it even that worthy individual
the Devil to wit-by whom this praiseworthy at
tempt was made. Walking into our sanctum on the
morning of the first we found on the table at which
the venerable Editor usually composeth his serious
and Instructive homes, note directed to ga L.
PRICE" The venerable Editor in the innocence of
his heart, took up the small epistle turned it over
and, he bushes to own, peeped into it. and there
read these cabalistic words april Fool" The ven
cradle individual then carried up stairs to his wor
thy associate whose name it bore, and with due and
becoming gravity presented it unto him the afore-
SAID A H. PRICE, who, instead of stretching forth
his hand to receive it, raised that useful member to
level with his head and placing upon the apex of
his nose that shortest and thickest of the fingers
commonly known as the thumb, did then and there
gyrate the other four for some time During the
progress of this interesting operation, the hole i'm
mediately under his nose opened, and gave vent to
the following mysterious words: q No you DON'T
April fool-no sir-rec." The venerable then re-
tired to his den, in brown study, where he sat for
some time admiring the " form and pressure of
pair of scissors which having DONE he brought out
from its resting place tripod threelegged chair,
and set it in the middle of the floor. VIM he did
this is secret: but in short time young gentle
man came in and sat upon the tripod for brief pe-
rlod-we fear it was very brief for in little less
than time the venerable was condoling with him
upon his fall and muttering unto himself something
about the first of April. But we have not vet given
the Devil his due. 1t turned out that the note to our
worthy associate was written by the Devil-of the
Journal ofhce-and this was the only attempt we
saw; of course the three-legged chair affair was
purely accidental-the supposition that the chair
was placed Intentionally is contradicted by the gray
ty and decorum which characterize the Editors usual
habits. careful study of the natural history of
the chair, goes to prove that it is quadruped or
fourfooted thing, and this accounts for the fall of
our youthful friend, who did make proper allow
ance for the amabe weakness of our poor article of
furniture
But we are slow in getting to summer, and sum-
mer is slow in getting to Even at this present
writing, on the 18th of April we find coal fire an
agreeable companion. The March-like character of
the weather led to reflect whether indeed there
was not some mistake about it, and hence our lucu-
bratlous upon the calendar, which have resulted in
convincing US that the old folks who praised April
and May, meant what we now call Nav and June,
June is the true May, the genuine flower month of
the poets, which old CHAUcER and those other An
glo-Saxon fellows used to talk about Still nature
although considerably imposed upon, has common
ced her toilet in right earnest. An old China tree
in front of our Office after going perfectly naked all
winter, has thought proper to don a green coat of
leaves and white hat of blossoms we regret to say
that from the knee down he is still in state of nu
dity. He is of the handles of the vegetable
world, and, like most dandes is perfectly hollow,
the heart being totally wanting but he has deci-
ded advantage over the human coxcomb he can re.
ly upon his natural perfume, which is quite agreea-
BILE. Bless the cid fellow wherever his affections
take root there he stands and will stand the balance
of his life, and if he be little green which of us is
not.
What lesson nature teaches upon the subject of
anniversary celebrations. We quickly become care
less in the observance of anything the 4th of July
Will soon be little thought Of and Christmas forgot
ten by all the pous the tosscated but every
Spring nature celebrates the anniversary of the
tion and is busily employed in getting out
the five thousand eight hundred and fifty first edi-
ton of the garden of Eden, revised and corrected
with the most modern improvements and additions
The earth is clothed in green and the trees covered
with foliage; the time of the singing of birds is
come and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our
land the bees fit from flower to flower, and like
contented spirit find good in everything land the
mosquitoes begin to bite like thunder Poor Tom
Hoop, in sickness always and in want at times had
deep feeling for the beautiful in nature, and while
cooped up in London, sighed for the trees and flow