Show There II It difference of oC opinion ab ak f tc to the true origin of the custom that has lim the tit first day dAr of ot April to tin lit pranks and Rn J jilt Jest of at fools ool That It h ha Iii ha a very Iu custom Is 18 quite oar oer tain tab Its UH beginning Is lost bit In the ob obscure I CUrt past I ISOme Some me hold hol that It Is II of origin They mat that the oriental feast east ol or tOte the Hull which terminate on the Iha Ial day lay of or March IH Is similar to the Ih April fools foots anniversary The observance ance ince of or the tho Hull huh consisted mainly In lending lenall people on fools errands to persons or to t persons out of oC town Others consider the Observance o of the day as aa a n I commemoration of ot the thu suffer sufferIngs sufferIngs Ings of our Savior when Ho lie was wan UI ed ad and anti d by nn en Infuriated populace lace Ince which preferred a notorious crimi criminal criminal nal nil to the Nazarene Possibly ly It Is 18 Otto one of or the observances that have been borrowed from rain pagan paganIsm Ism IBm and A given Riven a n new significance among Christian Christi nations lint Hut whatever Is the origin and ani what over oer once tho lie of oC It It U Is certainly In us liS bad bud tute to abuse frieri and acquaintances on in u that day clay dayas claya as a Ion on any other oIlier Tile Tho practical joker Is l a n nuisance who be ho abated 11 lIe Ho lies ha no legitimate place whatever In civilized society The flie humorist and amid the satirist t have hao aich their good mis mission sion Slon to perform but the follow who seeks pleasure In the time discomfort oC or others Is l on in the level with the this untutored ed child amuses amuse el itself by b plucking the wings winds train live lIe One remarkable joke jolce was played on nn the I London people yours yearn ago A great number of or voIl known of ot London l by mall malla a n a card hearing bearing h the lie Inscription Tower lower of London Admit the bearer hearer and friend to view visa the annual ceremony of washing ashing the thu Ih white lions on eu Sunday April 1 I mo 1160 Admitted only at n l the Gate Cato a IO It U Is U almost incredible but Jut on the Ih date designated numerous cabs cabu rattled about the Tower rower All that lint Sunday morning with who In vain ware wert ver looking for Cor the white whitegate gut gate A As 8 a II demonstration of tho the cred ered credulity hilt of human nature the hoax hou n ft grind grand success And nd perhaps that thit wan what the Ibo rp of the tho joke In landed it to 10 be Je |