A loquacious man, after seizing every one that falls in his way by the button, will fling himself into a circle of grave men who are talking upon business, and with one brisk volley of impertinence disperse the whole assembly. He is so insensible of raillery in this point, that he is pleased with his own children when they desire him to talk them asleep with one of his stories.-Theophrastus.

If he be free, why then, my taxing like a wild goose flies, unclaimed of any man.-As You Like It.

The ancient times were the infancy of the world, saith Bacon. The child is father to the man, saith-Wordsworth.

Acts.

QUADRAGESIMA SUNDAY, originally the first day of the great fast, and so called because it is the fortieth day before GOOD FRIDAY, when a more rigid abstinence for forty hours was appointed by the church.-See 3rd April. With the first Sunday in Lent commences one of the four weeks in which the EMBER DAYS (Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) fall, called "Ymbren" in the laws of Alfred and Canute, and by the canonists quatuor anni tempora," i. e. the four seasons of the year, when the solstitial and equinoctial rains are prevalent. The root of the word "ember" seems to be the Greek ombros, or the Latin imbres, signifying "showers of rain ;" and although these periods of humiliation were de-. creed to be observed in the Christian service, about the year 220, by Pope Calixtus, and placed in the calendar 1095, they are probably of the highest antiquity, in remembrance of God's covenant with Noah. See 15th December.-It is not irrelevant to add, that the Juno Imbrasia, patroness of the seasons, received her worship in this month.

By the Council of Oxford the curse of excommunication is decreed to be said medicinal four times in the year; i. e. upon this day, Trinity Sunday, the Octave of the Virgin, and upon the first Sunday of the Advent. Within this ban are all those who use false weights and measures; the helpers of Saracens against Christian men; and those who falsify the seal of our lord the King, or any other seal authentic.

Edward III. celebrates a jubilee-he had reigned fifty years.

The Festival of the establishment of St. Peter's Chair, at Antioch, about the year 36, is kept on this day by the Catholic Church. It is called "Brand Sunday" in some parts of France (the Lionnois), from an ancient but absurd custom among the peasants of assembling in the gardens and orchards at night, with lighted torches, and after having plighted every tree, devoting them to deadly use if not fruitful in season.

Wassail the trees, that they may bear

You many a plum and many a pear.---Herrick.

A loquacious man, after seizing every one that falls in his way by the button, will fling himself into a circle of grave men who are talking upon business, and He is so with one brisk volley of impertinence disperse the whole assembly. insensible of raillery in this point, that he is pleased with his own children when they desire him to talk them asleep with one of his stories.-Theophrastus.

Obits of the Latin Church.
Sts. Thalassius and Limneus,
5th Century.

St. Baradat, 5th Century.
St. Margaret, of Cortona, 1297.

If he be free, why then, my taxing like a wild goose flies, unclaimed of any man.-As You Like It.

The ancient times were the infancy of the world, saith Bacon. The child is father to the man, saith-Wordsworth.

Acts.

QUADRAGESIMA SUNDAY, originally the first day of the great fast, and so called because it is the fortieth day before GOOD FRIDAY, when a more rigid abstinence for forty hours was appointed by the church.-See 3rd April. With the first Sunday in Lent commences one of the four weeks in which the EMBER DAYS (Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) fall, called "Ymbren" in the laws of Alfred and Canute, and by the canonists quatuor anni tempora," i. e. the four seasons of the year, when the solstitial and equinoctial rains are prevalent. The root of the word "ember" seems to be the Greek ombros, or the Latin imbres, signifying "showers of rain ;" and although these periods of humiliation were de-. creed to be observed in the Christian service, about the year 220, by Pope Calixtus, and placed in the calendar 1095, they are probably of the highest antiquity, in remembrance of God's covenant with Noah.— See 15th December.-It is not irrelevant to add, that the Juno Imbrasia, patroness of the seasons, received her worship in this month.

By the Council of Oxford the curse of excommunication is decreed to be said medicinal four times in the year; i. e. upon this day, Trinity Sunday, the Octave of the Virgin, and upon the first Sunday of the Advent. Within this ban are all those who use false weights and measures; the helpers of Saracens against Christian men; and those who falsify the seal of our lord the King, or any other seal authentic.

Edward III. celebrates a jubilee-he had reigned fifty years.

The Festival of the establishment of St. Peter's Chair, at Antioch, about the year 36, is kept on this day by the Catholic Church. It is called " Brand Sunday" in some parts of France (the Lionnois), from an ancient but absurd custom among the peasants of assembling in the gardens and orchards at night, with lighted torches, and after having plighted every tree, devoting them to deadly use if not fruitful in season.

Wassail the trees, that they may bear

You many a plum and many a pear.---Herrick.

She possesses an excellent understanding, together with a consummate prudence, and gives the strongest testimony of the purity of her heart by her fondness of me. For it is not my youth or my person, which time gradually impairs; it is my reputation and my glory of which she is enamoured.---Pliny the Younger.

Day.

Births.

Deaths.

VII. Samuel Pepys, 1632, Bampton, Eugenius IV. (Pope), 1447.

Dr. Thomas Goodwin, 1679.
Magnus Steinbock, 1717. d.
Frederickshaven.

Stanislaus I. (of Poland), 1766.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1792.

Sombrius is scandalized at youth for being lively, and at childhood for being playful. He sits at a christening or a marriage feast as at a funeral; sighs at the conclusion of a merry St. Paul's. story; and grows devout when the rest of the company grow pleasant. After all, Sombrius Dr. Joseph Warton, 1800. d.

is a religious man.-Addison.

Obits of the Latin Church.
St. Serenus (or Gardiner), Mar-
tyr, d. Sirmium, 307.
St. Boisil, Prior of Melross, 664.
St. Milburge, V. Abbess in Shrop-

shire, d. 7th Century.
Dositheus, a Monk of Palestine.
Peter Damian, Cardinal, Bishop
of Ostia, 1072.

Nicholas Stofflet, 1796. shot,
Angers.

Wickham, Hants.

The eclipse of the sun is, when it is new moon; the eclipse of the moon when it is full. They say Dionysius was converted by the eclipse that happened at our Saviour's death, because it was neither of these, and so could not be natural.

Weak people are incapable of sincerity.---Rochefoucault.

Selden.