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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the AlmanacHone, William

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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

Name: The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac
Author: Hone, William

Hone, William

Days; Great Britain -- Social life and customs

FLORAL DIRECTORY.

  Early Daffodil. _Narcissus Pseudonarcissus simplex._
  Dedicated to _St. Perpetua_.


~March 8.~

  _St. John_ of God, A. D. 1550. _St. Felix_, A. D. 646. _Sts.
  Apollonius_, _Philemon_, &c. A. D. 311. _St. Julian_, Abp. of Toledo,
  A. D. 690. _St. Duthak_, Bp. of Ross, A. D. 1253. _St. Rosa_, of
  Viterbo, A. D. 1261. _St. Senan_, 5th Cent. _St. Psalmod_, or
  _Saumay_, about 589.

Romish saints are like earthquakes, wherein _shocks_ crowd so fast they
cannot be noted.


_An Earthquake in London._

On the 8th of March, 1750, an earthquake shook all London. The shock was
at half past five in the morning. It awoke people from their
sleep and frightened them out of their houses. A servant maid in
Charterhouse-square, was thrown from her bed, and had her arm broken;
bells in several steeples were struck by the chime hammers; great stones
were thrown from the new spire of Westminster Abbey; dogs howled in
uncommon tones; and fish jumped half a yard above the water.

London had experienced a shock only a month before, namely, on the 8th
of February 1750, between 12 and 1 o’clock in the day. At Westminster,
the barristers were so alarmed that they imagined the hall was falling.

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FLORAL DIRECTORY.

  Everblowing Rose. _Rosa Semperflorens._
  Dedicated to _St. Rosa_ of _Viterbo_.
  Great Jonquil. _Narcissus lætus._
  Dedicated to _St. Felix_.


~March 9.~

  _St. Frances_, Widow, A. D. 1440. _St. Gregory_, of Nyssa, Bp. 4th
  Cent. _St. Pacian_, Bp. A. D. 373. _St. Catherine_, of Bologna, A. D.
  1463.


MISTS AND FALLS.

Scots’ mists, like Scots’ men, are proverbial for their penetration;
Plymouth showers for their persevering frequency. The father of Mr.
Haydon, the artist, relates that in the latter portion of 1807, and the
first three or four months of 1808, there had been more than 160
successive days in which rain, in more or less quantities, had fallen in
that neighbourhood. He adds, indeed, by way of consolation, that in
winter it only _rained_ there, while it _snowed_ elsewhere. It has been
remarked that in this opinion he might be correct; at least if he
compared the climate of Plymouth with that of the western highlands. A
party of English tourists are said to have stopped for several days at
an uncomfortable inn, near Inverary, by the unremitting rains that fall
in that country about Lammas, when one of them pettishly asked the
waiter, “Does it _rain_ here ALWAYS?” “Na! na!” replied Donald, “it
_snaws whiles_,” i. e. sometimes.

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FLORAL DIRECTORY.

  Petticoat Daffodil. _Narcissus Bulbocodium._
  Dedicated to _St. Catherine_.


~March 10.~

  _Forty Martyrs of St. Sebasti_, A. D. 320. _St. Droctovæus_, Abbot, A.
  D. 580. _St. Mackessoge._

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