Some facts about Sunday

   Sunday is first day of the week, observed by Christians almost universally as a holy day in honor of the resurrection of Christ.
   The hallowing of Sunday appears incontestably as a definite law of the church in the beginning of the 4th century. The emperor Constantine confirmed the custom by a law of the state.
   Throughout the medieval period the authority of the church was so univer¬sally recognized that secular legislation in this regard was almost unnecessary. The Catholic Church then required, and still requires, abstinence from servile work on Sunday, and the assistance at Mass of all who are not lawfully hindered.
   In the medieval period the courts were presided over or dominated by the clergy, and Sunday early became in the legal sense a dies non, on which legal proceedings could not be conducted. By common law, however, all other business might be transacted.
   The New England States were the first to regulate the observance of Sunday by a series of statutes. The Constitution of the United States prohibits the restriction of religious liberty or the enforcement of religious observances, and therefore, in law, Sunday is regarded merely as a civil day, which is a convenient one for the suspension of business, because of its observance as a holy day by a great majority of the people. These statutes are constitutional as a valid exercise of the police power. Works of necessity and great public convenience are usually excepted.

Blood facts

The blood does even more than carry food and oxygen to every part of our bodies. Its work is so important that the heart has to keep pumping it day in and day out without ever stopping to rest.

A person who weighs 100 pounds has about four quarts of blood. Bigger people have more. Smaller people have less.

A drop of blood looks like a drop of red ink. But it is much, much more complicated. The liquid part of our blood is not red. Blood looks red because it has many tiny red cells in it. Red cells are far too small to be seen without a microscope. It would take thousands of thern to make a row an inch long. Everyone has billions of red cells in his blood.

The chief work of the red cells is to carry oxygen. They gather it in the lungs and take it to all the other cells of the body.
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How is astrology used today?

The most popular form of modern astrol-ogy is called natal (birth) astrology. Natal astrology involves plotting the positions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars at the exact time of a person's birth, creating a chart called a horoscope. Astrologers believe that the horoscope pro¬vides information about that person's Signs of the Zodiac. traits and the sequence of his or her life events. When casting a horoscope, an astrologer maps the planets and stars against the backdrop of the zodiac. The zodiac breaks the celestial sphere into twelve regions, each one defined by a constellation residing within it. The twelve zodiac signs are: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.