Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-05-03


Der and December by F. 1t is not difficult
thus TO note any particular day Of the month.
The following lines furnish an easy key for
this purpose -
AT Dover Dwells George Brown, Esq.,
Good Charles Finch and David Frias.
The initial Of each word stands for the first
day Of esch month, in order. When February
numbers iweniy-uine days, ils last day has
the same letter as the fret Of March, 10 pre-
serve the succession uninterrupted Hence.
every leap year has two doulinical letters for,
the dominica letter Of January and February
in bissexiile. is not the samo fpr the balance of
the year 1t matters not which letter is re-
peaied, it .ill moi alter the result unless Feb.
90 is Sunday, and then only for one Lord s day.
There are lfiy-lwo weeks and one day in an
ordinary yeat Of 365 days. Thus the same
day Of the week begins and terminates il. II
the year commences with Tuesday it ends with
Tdasday, aad the dominica letter is +. The
next following year will Of course begin with
Wednesday, and the domincal letter is l..
The next afer will begin with THURSDAY, and
The dominica letter is d for, Thursday being
marked A, Friday will have B, Saturday e.,
and Sunday or Dominica. D and so onward.
You will readily zee that il every year nni-
formly contained 365 days, each sncceeiing
year would be commenced by one day later in
the week, and the domnical letter would run
in reverse order through the seven thus G..
F. +. ID. c. d. A. G. +. SC. G weld
be the letter for one year, + for the next, aud
So on. Aud if any year should begin with
Az
aud so on, the leapyear, containing 36G days,
breaks This arrangement: fur.' when February
has 20 days. the first and last day Of that year
cannot be Of the same day Of the week, and
therefore the next year must commence with
another than the next following week day.
The additional 36Gih day throws the yeay one
DAY ahead, Should the leap year commence
with Monday, the next year would commence
with Wednesday. An ordinary year would
have made ii Tuesday, bot, now our inter-
calaed or added day makes the year leap over
Tuesday and hence. is lhe real origin or rea-
sou Of the term leap-year. And then again,
another illustration may serve to make the mat
ter a lille more plain. Should Thursday
commence a leap-year, ID. would be the domD-
ical letter; for ii would represent the Sunday
following, A. as usual representing the frs. day,
Thursday. Reckoning backward. c. wonld
be leaped over, and b. would represent the
dominical Of the next year, whereas common
year Of sG5 days wonld have given c. as the
leuer for the succeeding year Thus The let
ter G. lesPed over is the dominica for the last
len months of the leap-year. And as one and
the same letter falls on every Sunday, that day
only is designated in our almauacs by the do
minical letter. The rest of the days Of the
week ase mentioned by name or By numeral
figures.
In this manner, does il appear why we find
so many words, derivaiions and compounds
from tho dead language of Judea, Chaldea,
Greece and Rome, so many names, fnrms cere-
monies, and frriivas, deduced from the hea lhen
world. The great examplar Of Christianity
thought ii no. beneath his notice to endorse
Hebrew laws and feasis as we'll as heather
symbols and sound maxims nor beneath his
dignity to preach in the temple and in the syn
Z acogues feilher was the APOSTLE Paul too
I fastidious To hold forth on Mars Hill or 10 sail
IN an Alexandrian vessel bearing the name
Of Caster and Pollux, or to extract appropriate
I lines and sentiments from the Greek poets, or
10 credit the barbarians for their kindness be-
slowed on him at his shipwreck on the island
of Malta why then should VIC feel so super
laiively refined as 10 carp aithe expressions we
find so abuudantly interviewer in our literature,
though they be Of pagan orieinl The samo
God made the heather that made us. He gave
them intellectual and moral facnllies, and es-
iablished for their guidance code of natural
laws and precepts Upon these two is based
the superstructure of our religion, morality and
science.