WALPURGA

St., was a famous abbe of the 8th century. Her day is May 1st, and that was how she came to be connected with all the strange popular superstitions about witches on broom-sticks (not a comfortable position and sacrifices of billy-goats on hill tops. The best 1), known of the 4 witch-hills ’ is, of course, the Brocken, the scene of the Witches’ Sabbath in Goethe's “Faust.” after taking his degree at Cambridge, travelled on the continent till the acce ion of Elizabeth. Lord Burghley discovered his abilities, and took him into diplomatic service, where he became one of the most insidious of Mary Stuart’s foes. Babington's conspiracy was ‘got up ’ by spies in the pay of Wal singh am. W.’s daughter, Frances, was the wife succe ively of Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of E ex, and Richard de Burgh (Earl of Clanricarde). Complete Angler," was born in 1593. He was in the drapery trade until he was fifty. In 1626 he married a relative of Archbishop Cranmer, and through that connection became intimate with some distinguished ecclesiastics, whose biographical memoirs he wrote. He died in 1683. deux temps is much danced on the continent, but the trois temps is more popular in England. very widespread, being mainly confined to the northwestern countries of Europe, and not found in them till the end of the Middle Ages. Of course, Cain was a 'Wandering Jew’ in one sense, and the Arabs make Samiri, the mechanic of the Golden Calf, a wanderer; but the modern legend is entirely connected with the Crucifixion, the insult having been offered to Jesus on his way to the Cro . The original story is found in Matthew Paris’s 44 Hist or i a Major” (dated about 1260 A.D.), where he is called Cart a phil us. Three hundred years later the story was revived, and the 4 Wandering Jew’ himself was said to have been seen by the Bishop of Slcswick in Hamburg. He had been a shoemaker, and his name was Ahasucrus. He had struck Jesus and said, 44 Go on, go on faster ” To which Jesus had answered, 44 1 go, but thou shalt! wait till I return." He appears again at Bru els in 1640 as Isaac Laqucdom, and has various other names in different places c.g. Buttadeus. once—lit He was not popular in England, but visited put him under lock and key, but he disappeared. The visit was authenticated by no le than four clergymen.