Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1849-12-26
EVERY MAN HIS OWN ALMANAC.
At Dover Dwells George Brown. Esquire,
Good ChristophcT Finch And David Frier

Learn TINS coupet thoroughly ii contains t,celre
words corresponding to the twelve months-thus,
January is AT May is Brown July is Good
Sc, Sc.
These twelve words have but scren initial letters.
answering to the seven daysin the week-A, b, C,
ID, f., f, q. If we know what day of the week
the LIST day of January falls Upon, we can assign
these seven letters 10 the DAYS TO which they bd.
long Thus, for lS50-Tuesday is the LIST of Jan
uary then Tuesday A, Wednesday b, &c.. Sun
day II. Now If we look into any Almanac for 1850.
we Will find that wherever Sunday falls there ID
placed the letter j, which is called the Dominica
or sunday letter for the year. There is also let
Ter ior each day OF the week as we have seen.
v we construct table showing the letter belong
ing to each day of the week it makes a compleis
and very simple calendar for the year. Thus fur
1850 Sunday +, Monday G, Tuesday A, We'd
nesday ID, Thursday c, Friday ID, Saturday F..
By the aid OF our couplet this calendar is easily
understood and applied.
ErampteS.-l. To find on what day of the week
the 9TH of July will fall.
BY the coupIct we find that July is Good" its
initial letter is G, which in The table is the .Mond
letter. July then comes in on Monday and the 4th
will be Thursday
2 What day of the week will be Xmas? By
the coupict December is 'Frier'-its initial letter
is f by the table is the Sunday letter. Deceih-
Der then comes in on Sunday and the 25th or Xmas
will be JHetnesddu
g. On what day of the month will the next spring
|
in April?
BY the couplet April is ..Georgeo-ini,ial letter
u, which by the table is the Monday letter. April
then will come in on Monday--the first Thursday
will be the 9TH and the fourth Tuesday will be Tho
twenty nm cf.Gpni.
BY trying few examples of this sort it will be-
found perfectly easy TO work them out mentally and
in shorter time than it would require TO look into
an Almanac.
Ii is evident that if we know on what iay Of the
week the lst OF January would fall IN any gear, we
could IN the same way and with equal readiness
construct calendar for that year. Or if we could
ind the Sunday letter for any year we could do the
same lhing-as could at once arrange all the
letters from that and make table just such as that
which we have been using.
To find the Dominica or Sunday letter for arv
year in the 10Th century:
10 The number of the year excluding centuries, add
It's 4ih. discardng fractions-to this sum add two:
divide the whole by and subtract the remain
der from seven.
E,namp L.-What is the Sunday letter for ls5Oe
Fifty added 10 2 makes 62, add and it makes
o4. Divide by gives and the remainder is /,
which taken from leaves 6. The Sunday letter
then is the sirth, or f, as we have seen.
If the year be leap-year the letter found in this
way and the calendar constructed upon it viii only
answer after the LIST of March. Before the LIST Of
March, the calendar is constructed by tisinp as
Sunday letter the letter next after the one found
as above
III II is desired TO construct a calendar for any
year not IN the present century--the same calcua:
ton VIII answer, except, that instead Of the mum
Der t,cO used for this century, must find another
in the same way in which that was obtained
huie.-Dlvde the number of centuries by four
| double the remainder and subtract from six
thus for any year in the present century IS divided
by four gives four with remainder two, which
doubled gives four subtracied from six, leaves t,oo
This is the number t,co already used
| For any year in The last century, IL divided by
four gives four remainder, doubled two subtract
ed from six leaves fo,r.
Erampte.-Ih he Sunday letter for I776
Seventysix added 10 It's fourth, nineteen, and
TO four, gives ninety nine, divided by seven gives
fourteen, remainder one, subtracted from seven
! leaves sic.
The Sunday letter for l776, then was f.. The
same with that of $50 the calendar must of course
have been the same, and the 9TH of july I776, must
! have fallen on Thursday.
This mode of counting time is not new--but
know of 40 one place where tho whole plan is ex-
! planned. have used it for several years and re-
commend it to every of business as great con-
venlence, easily understood and used mentally with
greater rapidy than any Almanac can be consulted
EDAX RERUM.