Show ALL FOOLS DAY we have been requested queued re to eipl explain ain the origin r of tho the custom custo lil of practical jokes on the first lay day of each april the origin a of this ridiculous but sometimes highly amusing custom of persons on lengthy 0 but in fr general riot not very s satisfactory errands of announcing by placard surreptitiously placed on oil the back of an obnoxious individual and in divers other ways which give no practical of tile the golden rule is almost lost in ill antiquity the most commonly credited account of its origin 0 is that it is the anniversary of the passion of our lord when licit J jesus was taken from annas to caiaphas and from Call caiaphas iphis to pilate mate and from pilate to herod and I 1 from herod back again ragain to pilate and this certainly might have given iten rise t to 0 the nic custom of sending 0 persons on oil fluit fruitless less messages massages 0 and 1 a I thousand and one tricks would follow as a natural sequa sequence tire in support of this theory it is said thit that even evell to the in ili germany sell sending I 1 in a man mail front from pilate to herod is used to designate in an errand of this kind sonic some writers claie asserted that it originated 0 in ili a alindon custom called th the C hali festival which is devoted to fun full and revelry aud and of which the practice of sending 0 persons on oll bootless and fruitless errands forms a part is heldak held at the end of the month of march in ili france the same I 1 usage has been known for generations dAy eril and as poisson is is supposed to bo be a corruption of tile the passion of our lord loid we ire arc brought back I 1 we named is as its first J ori origin 0 iii I 1 rile custom 1 is set down own b by 3 jewish people to tile the mistake of aloah in it sending dinal tile dove out ont of the irk ark before the alie waters had abated which occurred on oil ilia first of the mouth month 5 which answered to our firu first day of april in ili lionnie scotland alic land of cakes the plan usually adopted b by 11 sport loving individuals is to send stupid persons from place to place to deah er cr a letter on oil which is written something like laic the fol following lowilla 0 I 1 lines ines on the first lay day of apt api 1 il I the gon k tool fool another mile this country which chich is generally considered al as far ahead of 0 tile the great reat but nations of europe in ili kotlier things is not behind in april fool day follies for besides the usual worn buttricks out tricks her precocious sons have invented many others among among 0 them is the sending fig of verd ants to the book stores for the history of the world before the creation by I 1 leze kiall know pothiti nothing and to other places for round squares squares A stone from the house that tha L jack built or to pick up a dirt parcel previously placed in it position and after ma many ily other oilier ingenious C fo follies bilics or funny enquiries we remember reading a trick ili iii illges in ili by Mb elais inho lio finding himself at nt marseille Marseilles without money and bling desirous of getting 0 0 to pat cam is lie he bethought himself of all ancs ex wiliena for getting there lie iio filea some ollie phials with dust and I 1 ashes and li belling a them IS as poison for tho the etoyal 11 FAIa family lily of france placed hen hem in ill a spot where they cougil not ail to ile 10 discovered ile he was ivas soon and carried to paris on oil charge char 0 a of treason there the jest vas explained and tile the trash in tile the shills found to be harmless armless and 13 bellis liberated in conclusion let us its hope that the V I 1 ill iroe 1 iiii lias ived 1 arr alien our people cc P IC ill wit lake no ito pleasure in inan an lent chilli involves not only a ilse waste of time but it bie sacrifice of lie ife feelings of their fellows antl flan to I 1 I 1 inloes involves IV a reach breach in their own dutli andl and kioh ollor I 1 or |