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12th Month, "1
1897. J
DECEMBER— 31 days,
LOVE IS THE LOAD-
STONE OF LOVE.
THE MOON'S CHANGES.
First Quarter 1st, .... 14 min. past
Full Moon 9th,
Last Quarter 17th,
New Moon 23rd,
First Quarter 30th,
3 morning.
54 min. past 4 morning.
22 min. past 4 morning.
55 min. past 7 afternoon.
27 min. past 7 afternoon.
IL SECONDO PENSIERO E IL MIGLIORE^—
Sun
Rises
Moon
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SECOND THOUGHTS ARE BEST.
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Princess of Wales born, 1844.
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Amelia Opie, novelist, died, 1853.
3 52s
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"Every light lias its shadow."
7 48r
146
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Cardinal Richelieu died, 1642.
3 51s
7 51r
2 57
4 8
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2tttr ^mt&ajj in JUrtottt.
11
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Anthony Trollope, novelist, d., 1882.
3 50s
5 19
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Algernon Sidney heheaded, 1683.
7 53r
6 27
13
8
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" Fools will be meddling."
3 50s
7 31
14
9
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Gustavus Adolphns born, 1594.
7 56r
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Black game and grouse shooting ends.
3 49s
4 41
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Richard Doyle, artist, died, 1883.
7 58r
3 49s
5 46
6 56
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3rti j&m&air in JUrtont
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Dr. Samuel Johnson died, 1784.
8 Or
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14
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Prince Albert died, 1861.
3 49s
9 23
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15
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George Romney, artist, born, 1734.
8 lr
10 37
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" Every heart has its own ache."
3 49s
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Beethoven, musical composer, b. 1770.
8 3r
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19. Turner, famous painter, d., 1851.
3 50s
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2 34
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" Desires are nourished by delay.'"
3 50s
4
26
21
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St. Thomas's Day. — Shortest Day.
8 6r
5 29
27
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21. Michaelmas Law Sittings end.
3 51s
6 53
28
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24. Scribe, French dramatist, born, 1791.
8 7r
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W. M. Thackeray, novelist, d., 1863.
3 53s
4 37
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25
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Christmas Day.
8 7r
3 54s
6 6
7 34
2
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27
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1st Jshitttratt aft. Christmas
3
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Boxing Day. — Bank Holiday.
8 8r
8 58
4
28
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Innocents' Day. — 27. St. John the Evan.
3 55s
10 16
5
29
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Rt. Hon. W. B. Gladstone b., 1809.
8 8r
1132
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28. Lord Macaulay died, 1859.
3 57s
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New Year's Eve.
8 8r
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WORDS OF THE WISE.
Some homes are merely well-
regulated excuse factories.
Any mind that is capable of a
real sorrow is capable of good.
To mourn without measure
is folly ; not to mourn at all,
insensibility.
Lose not thine own for want
of asking for it ; 'twill get thee
no thanks.
There is no wisdom In having
a man to watch a bank who
believes that stealing chickens
is right.
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
Age brings us wisdom, but doesn't
give us much time to use it.
13. — Among the curious yet
happy marriages which are matters
of history is that of Dr. Samuel
Johnson. Before he was thirty
years old Dr. Johnson met a widow
almost double his age, unattractive
to others, yet to him the wisest and
loveliest of women. They lived
together in perfect accord, and
after she left him a most remark-
able prayer was recorded in his
diary in which he implored that
Peggy might " minister unto him if
departed spirits were permitted to
have the care of the living." And
so he remained faithful to her
memory during the remaining
twenty or more years of his pil-
grimage.
19.— Turner stands alone as an
example of a surpassing faculty for
colour, combined with the lowest
intellectual powers.
Hogarth, according to Walpole,
was a man of a "gross and unin-
formed mind." Nollekens never
had any notion of spelling or
grammar. Reynolds himself is said
to have been deficient in scholastic
attainments. But Turner, as re-
gards the general cast of his mind,
■v:is little above the level of the
.uiot.
His mother, always a woman of
fierce and ungovernable temper,
became insane and had to be placed
in confinement. His father was a
loquacious barber, mean and dwarf-
ish-looking, and without much
stability of character. To this most
unlikely couple there appears to
have been no other child born than
the most renowned landscape
painter of England.
24;— In France it is the custom
to joke and laugh at every possible
thing, no matter how serious.
The following canard was in-
vented some years ago, apropos of
one of the accomplices in the
murder of King Gustavus III. of
Sweden. The Count Ribbing had
taken refuge in Paris, and at the
time referred to was very old.
Scribe, with Auber, had just
finished the opera of Gustave, ou le
Bal Masqy&.
Uncertain in several points, says
the legend, Scribe went to Count
Ribbing and begged him to assist at
the rehearsal of the opera.
He came, and followed the piece
with great attention.
" Well ! " asked Scribe eagerly,
" what do you say to it ?"
"It's very nice, very nice," said
the Count, slowly and somewhat
coolly.
"But you don't seem altogether
satisfied," urged Scribe.
" Well," answered the Count,
" you are slightly mistaken ; the
affair was not done quite in that
way."
"What more was there?"
anxiously inquired Scribe.
" It seems to me, as far as I can
remember," answered the Count,
with perfect simplicity, ,l that we
murdered him a little more to the
left."
Scribe thanked him and acted on
the suggestion. The bare idea of