Directions for Beginning the New Year Well.—Go out to dinner on the 31st of December. Select the best house you know for the purpose. Eat and drink of the best, and spend the evening cheerfully. See the new year in, and accept your host's offer of a bed. Breakfast with the family; be in excellent health and spirits, and have a legacy left you.
Family Receipts.—Those given by the landlord on the 26th ultimo are the most appropriate to the month, and should be taken care of in case of accidents.
To avoid Chopped Hands.—Have your meat properly jointed by the butcher, and don't attempt to chop it yourself.
THE GOLDEN NUMBER.
SCRAPS OF INFORMATION,
USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL,
(The latter through the kind assistance of Mr. H. G. Hine.)
CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES FOR THE YEAR 1853.
Golden Number, or Cycle of the Moon, 11.
Cycle of the Sun, 14.