The practice of hanging up stockings in the chimney corner for Kriss Kringle to fill with toys, pretty books, bon-bons, &c., for good children, is being superseded by that of placing a Christmas Tree on the table to await the annual visit of the worthy Santa Klaus.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted after the announcement, “I will not stop fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stop the Trump admin’s plan for drilling.”

I take it that everyone has seen the Web Spam Camera ? Take a plate of edible things, put some soylent pink and a few other Yankee syntho-foods on there too, then leave a net.camera pointed at it.

Golden head by golden head, / Like to pigeons in one nest / Folded in each other's wings, / They lay down in their curtained bed: