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NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.
THE OLD WORLD srPERsT1TIONs.
New Years Eve.

THE OLD WORLD STPERSTITIONS.
This is the last day of the year, and
the feelings which belong to it are of
a tangled yarn. Regrets for the past
are mingled with hopes ofthe future;
and the heart of man, between the
meeting years, stands like the head
of Janus looking two ways.
The day and eve which precede the
New Year are marked, in England,
by few outward observances, save
such as are common to the season;
and it is in the peculiar trains of
thought to which they give rise that
they have a character of their own.
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of the season may be heard falling
from lips on which they must surely
Wlther in the very act ofpassing. To
have your morning salutatiOn from
a worthy like our friend with the UNI
brella in the plate, must he much the
same thing as riding out into the
highway, and getting your New Years
greeting from raven by the road
side. Mathews's undertaken, who
used to sing the song Of Merry Ihave
been, and merry could | be-" at his
club, to tune considerably below a
dirgei npoint ofliveliness, was broth
err OF the same family.
OF New Years gifts which are the
distinguishing feature of this day,
We have already said enough, in
pointing out the distinction betwixt
them and Christmas-boxes. They
still pass generally from friend to
friend, and between the different men,
bers ola family, and are in such cases
very pleasant remembrancers; but
the practice in ancient times had
some very Objectionable features. 1t
was formerly customary for the no.
bles and those about the court to
make presents on this day to the
sovereign; who, if he were a prince with
anything like Il princely mind, took
care that the returns which he made
in kind should at least balance the
cost to the subject. The custom,
however, became a serious tax when
the mobiles had to do with a sovereign
of another character; and in Eliza
beth's day it was an affair of no
trit1ing expense to maintain ground
as a cOurtier. The lists of the kind
of gifts which she exacted from all
who approached her for the neces-
sity OF giving, the consequences of
not giving ,amounted to anexaction),
and the accounts of the childish ca
gerness with which she turned over the
wardrobe tinery, finished in great
abundance as the sort of gift most
suited to her capacity OfappreciatioD,
furnish admirable illustrations of her
mind. She said to have taken good
care that her returns should leave a
very substantial balance in her own
favor. The practice is stated to have
been eXtinguished in the reign of
George III.
We need scarcely mention that
most Of the other forms in which the
mirth of the season exhibits itself
are in demand for this occasion; and
that among the merry evenings of
the Christmas-tide not the least merry
is that which closes New Years Day.
To the youngsters of society, that
day and eve have probably been the
most trying of all; and the srrongex-
elements of a happy spirit drive the
weary head to an earlier pillow than
the young heart of this season at all
approves. But his is the WEAKNESS
that the sweet sleep of youth so sure
ly recruits; and tomorrow shall see
him early afoot, once more engaged
in those winter amusements which
are to form his resource till the nov
elites of Twelfth day arrive.
There will come an eve to q longer day,
That will find thee tireCl-but not of play;
And thou wilt lean as thou leanest now,
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ciety Of Scotland,
are as follows
"Hogmanay,
Trollolay,
Gle me O your white
bread,
I'll haze name O. your
grey"
and much learning
has been exhaust
ed, and ingenuity
exercised in their
explanation. The
admirable paper
of Mr.. Repp, in the
same Transac-
tiOns, come cts
them with anOth-
er supers titiOn
common to many
of the mort ern
n atoms; a n d
which may be com
pared with one OF
the articles of pop.
ular belief, as pre-,
vailing in England
on Christmas Eve;
that, viz, which
seem s to imply
that the spirits OF
evil are at this
time in peculiar
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genii, whether good or bad; and the
first two lines of the cry in question:
which as he explains them after the
AnglO-SaxOn and Icelandic dialects,
were words of appeal to the good
genii (the hoghmen or hillmen), and
of eXecratiOn against the evil ones
(the trOlles), were so used, in cOnse-
quence of such belief (that these diff
terent spirits were, at that hour, in
mOtiOn), and of the further one that
the words of men had power to de-
termine that motion to their own adj
vantage. 1t is we'll known that, in
some countries, and we may mention
Germany, great Importance is at
tached to words involuntarily ut
tered at certain seasons, and under
certain circumstances, and they are
supposed to be either words of be-
trayal, leaving the speaker open to
the Vaccinations of evil spirits, who
may apply them in strained and
fatal sense, if at all ambiguous; or
words of power, controlling the de-
signs of demons, and compelling them
to work out the good of the utterer,
against their will. Now a supersti-
ton of this kind, Mr.. Repp says, at
taches generally to the doctrines of
demonology; and he states that he
could prove his position by many in
stances from Arabic and Persian fairy
lore. We may observe that some of
the Highland superstitions mentioned
by Mr.. Stewart, such as that of
sprinkling the household with water
drawn from the dead and living ford,
and that of fumigating the apart
ments and half smothering their ten
ants with the smoke from burning
piles of the juniper-bush (both con-
sidered to operate as charms against
the spells of witchcraft and the ma
Lightly of evil eyes,, have evidently,
their origin in that same belief, that
the powers of evil are on the wing at
this mysterious and solemn time of
natural transition.
PASSING AWAY.
1t is almost impossible for man on
this day to be insensible to the "still
small voices that call upon him for
gathering up of his thoughts. In the
very midst of the house of mirth.
shadow passes through the heart
and summons it to a solemn confer
ence. The skeleton who sits at all
feasts, though overlooked at most,
from long habit gets power on this
day to wave his hand, and points
emphatically, with his "slow-moving
finger" to the long record whose
burthen is passing away? The
handwriting of Time comes visibly
out upon the wall; and the spirit
pauses to read it's lessons, and take
an account of the wrecks which it
registers and the changes which it
announces. Properly speaking, every
day is the commencement of a new
year, and the termination of an old
one; but it is only by these emphatic
markings that man is attracted to
a consideration of a fact, whose
daily recurrence at once makes it's
weighty Importance and causes it to
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But on this particular day, no man
fails to remember that

But on this particular day, no man
fails to remember that
Again the silent wheels of time
! Their annual round have driven;
and how solemn are the reflections
which suggest themselves to him who
casts his eye over the space OLA year,
i'll Il spirit which can look beyond his
own personal share in it's doings, and
embrace the wide human interests
that such a retrospect includes!
"What a mightysum Ofevents," says
that excellent writer, William Hewitt,
''has been contaminated; what a tide
OfpassiOns and affections has flowed;
what lives and deaths have alternate
ly arrived; what destinies have been
fixed forever!'
MELANCHOLY LAMENT.
MIR. Tennyson beautifully portrays
the season in the following poem:
lfyoure waking, call me early, call me early,
uOlneF uPaf,
For would see the sun rise upon the GLAD
Now-y year
1t Is the last New-year that | shall ever see
Then We may lay me low i the mould, and
think no more of me.
Tonight saw the sun set: he set and left be-
hind
The good old year. the dear old time, and all
my peace of mind;
And the New year s coming up, mother but
shall never see
The may upon the blackthorn the leaf upon
the tree.
Last May we made crown offowers: we had
merry day:
Beneath the hawthorne on the green they
made me Queen of May;
And we danced about the maypOle and in the
hazeIcOpse,
Till Charless vain came out above the tall
white chlmney-tOps.
There's not flower on all the hills: the frost
is on the pane:
| only wish to live till the snowdrops come
again:
| wish the snow would melt and the sun come
out on high
| long to see flower so before the day die
The building rock II cav from the windy tall
em-tree.
And the tufted pover pipe along the fallen
lea
And the swallow II come back again with sum-
mer o er the wave,
But | shall lie alone, mother, within the
mOuderlng grave.
Upon the chancel easement, and upon that
grave Of mine,
In the early, early morning the summer sun
shine,
Before the red cock crows from the farm ND
on the hill,
When you are warm asleep, mother and all
the world is still
When the flowers come again, mother be-
meath the waning light,
1e ii nevPrsee me more in the long gray fields
at night;
When from the dry dark void the summer
airs blow cool,
On the oatgrass and the sword-grass, and
bulrush in the pool.
Ye II bury me, my mother, just beneath the
hawthorn shade,
And yell come sometimes and see me where
am lowly laid,
| shall not forget ye mother shall hear We
when We pass,
With your feet above my head in the long
and pleasant grass.
Good night! good night when have said
good night for evermOre,
And We see me carried out from the threshold
of the door,
Don't let Eftie come to see me till my grave
be growing green;
She'll be a better child to you than ever
have been.
Good night, sweet mother! call me when it
begins to dawn:
All night lie awake, but | fall asleep at
morn:
But would see the sun rise upon the glad
Newyear,
So, if you're waking, call me, call me early,
mother dear!
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NEW YEARS DAY.

A SEASON OF CON.
CALCULATIONS.
The first of Jan
uary, forming the
accomplishment of
the eight days af-
ter the birth Of
Christ t, h as been
sometimes called the
octave ofChristmas;
and is celebrated in
our church services
as the day of the
Circumcision.
Of this day we
have little left to
say; almost all that
belongs toit having
been of necessity an
ticipated in the pro-
gress Of those re-
marks which have
brought us up to it.
1t is a day of uni
versal congratulate
ton; and one on
which, so far as we
m a y judge from
ex tern al signs, Il
generalexpansiono of
the heart TIA kes
place. Even they
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who haveno hearts to open, orhearts
which are not opened by such ordin-
airy occasions, adopt the phraseology
of those whom all genial hints call
into sympathy with their fellow-crea-
lures; and the gracious compliments
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which has been given to this season,
in Scotland and elsewhere, is supposed
to have had it's origin in some old re-
ligious ceremonies which were per-
formed by candle light, and the bull
was passing cloud, which in High
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In Scotland, on
the other hand, the
festival Ofthis sea-
son is, since theRef-
OrmatiOn, nearly
limited to these
two days; and the
last d ay Of the
year is dis tin
guished b tn by
Omens and by GUS
toms peculiar to
itself. In Mr..
Stewards "Popu-
lar Superstitions
ofthe Highlands"
there is an account
of some of these
o m ems, as they
were gathered, at
no distant period,
in hat land Of
nllSCa ana mystery;
and a singular ex-
a mple nay be
mentioned in the
auguries dra wn
from w h at was
called the Candle
m as bull. The
term Candlemas,
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A colored man, a hen roost and a
dark night discount all the affinities.
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land i'm agin a.
ton assumed the
form of that ami
NAL, and from
whose rise or fall,
or motions gen
orally on this
night, the seer
prog nosticated
good or bad
weather. Some
thing ofthe same
kind is men
toned in Sir
John Sinclair's
Statistical Ac-
count Of Scot
land" W no ex-
The weekly messenger., 1889-10-12
FREAKS OF LUCK.
no PECULIAR CASES PRoBED
BY A SCRIBE.

|sank Clerk Stopped From Stealing
" a Peculiar Arrangement of Mir
ors-A Strangely Deliberate Sui
|.de.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Galveston, Texas. is putting I'm a
cotton mill to cost s5oO,O
Scientists declare that the average size
ai mems necks is decreasing.
An electrical shoal water indicator hss
Just been devised by two Mexicans.
Western manufacturers find that oil IS
cheap and entirely satisfactory substi.
iute for hard fuel.
The temperature in the deepest coal
mines in the world is ninety five degrees.
They are in France.
Virginia City, New, hes the biggest
electric plant on earth. 1t has six I2O
horsepower generators, and runs . mine
and mill.
A rock breaker has just been made al
Chicago which weighs forty-five tons and
which will break big rock at the rate
OF two to three tons per minute.
The Union Pacific has Just ordered
seventy-Six locomotives from tie Bald
win Locomotive Works at Philadelphia,
to be finished as soon as possible.
The Vermont Microscopcal Association
has announced that prize of $3.50, given
by firm of chemists, will be paid to the
trSt discoverer of new disease germ.
A wealthy Spaniard, named Buenos,
has donated to the Government the sum
of 100000 for the purpose of making
experiments with new submarine boat.
Extensive works, to employ many hun.
dreds of workmen, are to be started in
Germany for the manufacture of pape,
from iron and glass by newly discovered
process.
The weekly messenger., 1889-10-12
Birds and Telegraph Wires.

1t has been supposed that birds be-
come accustomed to the presence of tel.
egraph wires, and are careful to avoid
them in flying, but it would seem either
that this is a mistake or that the birds
on the Scotch and English moors are
less intelligent than their fellows. Sys-
tematic observation thero along line of
telegraph wires has shown that great de-
struction of bird life goes on throughout
the year, and that at certain seasons the
roadside is literally strewn with the re.
mains of unfortunate grouse, black game
partridge, snipe and other birds. Every
morning at dawn marauding bands of
rocks come from the lowland woods to
feast on the dead and dying, and the
farmers and shepherds in the region de-
clare that more grouse are killed annu.
ally by the telegraph wires than by all
the sportsmen.-IP Philadelphia Ledger.
The weekly messenger., 1889-10-12
Fistic Encounters of Ancient Greece

At the fistic encounters of ancient
Greece, boxers increased the force of
their blows by the weight of iron rings,
shielding their nuckles, and fastened by
means of broad leather strap that was
grasped in the hollow of the fist, thus
giving the fighter chance to shift the
ring whenever a heavy blow happened
to bruise his hand at any special place.
How human skulls could weather such
work might seem quite puzzle, but
there is no doubt that the practice pre-
vailed throughout the last seven centu-
ries of the Olympiades, and that boxing
formed one of the five athletic accomp-
lishments in the pentathlon-the five
prize contests for which the champions
of all the Mediterranean coastlands
trained year after year.-[Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The weekly messenger., 1889-10-12

A Pocket match safe free to smokers of
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A SAD ALTERNATIVE.

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Daughter Cher father dentist )-"Fo,
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father! If he finds US together we ar,
lost"
Charlie-"What shall dot"
'Either ask for my hand in marriage,
or else sit down in this chair and let hin
pull couple of teeth to disarm Suspicion :
--SJtings.
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Probably as much misery comes from habit
tual constipation as from any arrangement OF
the functions Of the body, and it is difficult to
cure, for the reason that no one likes to take
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Her heart is light.
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few brief months ago her cheek
Was pallid and her step was weak.
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This is the age Of wonders. and the average
American citizen is no longer surprised at any
ton, however, Just write to B. F. Johnson s.
Co., l009 Main st.. Richmond, Va, and hear
what they have got to say Of the success of
that sell, and any one out Of employment will
consult their own interests by applying 10
them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-29
LABOR MEN WANT TO BE REPRESENTED.

At yesterdays meeting of the Central Labor Union
John Mcpherson said that Delegate Joseph Middleton
had not properly represented the sentiment of the
United Order of American Carpenters in his speech last
week concerning the Worlds Fair, when he had sad
that the far would be injurious TO the city, Middle
ton, in reply, said that he was heartily In favor of tho
fair but thought It should be held about twenty miles
from the city. After discussion in regard 10 the
Worlds Fair 1t was decided that the Central Labor
Union ought TO be represented on the committees to
be appolned by the Mayor. II decided to request
the Mayor TO appoint Delegate Warner the Sites and
Building Committee
The picnic Committee reported that there not
union park In the city that could be engaged for
tho annual picnic Labor Day. and recommended
flat on that account no picnic be held. W. IT..
strongly opposed this and carried his point
so far that It decided to combine with tho Central
Labor Confederation that day and carry out tho
objects OF the holiday with picnic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-29
GATHERED ABOUT TIE TOWN.

John Hyland of No 600 Dean-sta and Thomas
Larkin, of No 200 81. Marks-ave. were arrested on
Saturday night by Officer Stcfbolt, of the Tenth Pre-
cinct charged with robbing Michael Mcmahon. OF No.
641 IL Dean-st LaIkin held him While hyiand
robbed him Of so cents. Hyland resisted arrest most
vigorously and the officer obliged to use his club
Both men were held to awai0 the action OF the Grand
Jury.
camp of the Sons OF Veterans. to be named In
honor of General George c. Strong, gallant soldier
in the Civil War, is 10 be organized In this CITY, Frank
s Curtis c. Z. DOemus, William ii. r. Jay and
Wilson b. Strong have the matter in charge.
william Hail. age sixty, captain of the English
steamer Spendhnft lying at South 6eeond-st dropped
dead yesterday afternoon. One of the sailors de-
handed his pay and all angry dispute followed. Tho
captain became much excited that fatal attack
of heart disease followed He was attended BY the
surgeon OF the ship.
Christopher schecble, OF NO. 81 Evergreen-aye..
was charged by Frederick Englebert, of Wyckoh-ave
and willow Place with the abduction OF his nve-year-
old son. Frederick Englebert, on Saturday evening
crowd Of boys saw the kidnapper leading tho child
away and gave the alarm. The boys mother also
Joined I'm the chase, and obtained the assistance OF
Officer K1an, of the Twelfth Precinct, who arrested
scheeble. The boys father made charge against
him at the station and took the child home