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Christmas

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
December
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Christmas opens the hearts of people to a remarkable extent, more, possibly, than they themselves realize. The conduct of Dickens' Scrooge, that "squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old einner," was not much more striking on Christmas morning after the ghostly visitors had left him, than is often seen in many people who come out on that day with some appearance of warmth which no one had ever suspected thera of possessing. And if it thaws out euch people, what is its effects on the majority, who, we hope, carry and distribnte sunshine all the time 't Much has been written upon the subject of Christmas, more than a short paragraph can teil ; but its wonderful history, especially its philosophy, has never been" so compactly and well stated as is desirable. How did it come that from the time a Roman emperor in the third century set fire to a church, in which a congregation of christians was celebrating Christ's nativity, and destroyed all the band, to the present time, so much of Christ's spirit of gentleness and love has attached to this day ? This peculiar day has survived, bearing the stamp of the character in whosé honor it was originated, though it passed through centuries in which his professed followers had none of his spirit. Wm. C. Habéis, editor of American Angler, is to publish in 40 parts a large work on "Fishes of North America." The plates alone of the work will cost $15,000. It represents the work of five yeare. He has epent many months on selected fishing waters, where, accompanied by a skilied artist, he canght most of the prominent game fishes of America, which were transferred, on the spot, to the canvas, before the sheen of their color tints had faded. The book will contain portraits of eighty or more fishes that take the hook and line in the fresh and salt waters of the United States and British possessions. It will be a valuabl&text book for the student and a kindergarten study for the angler. ____ Duking the three months in which the English government has been trying to enforce the latest coerción act in Ireland, over 200 people have been put in jail, and uot one of them is charged with anything which in this country is considerad a crime. On the inner pages of Thb Register may be fonnd an account of the meeting of the Repnblican clubs in New York, of the doings of Congress, the Indiana Republicans, the Prohibitionists, the western tornado, etc.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register