Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-25
CURIOSITIES OF THE CALENDAR.
Do You Know When the End of the
Century VIII Comet

| From the Boston Home Journal
The year 1900 will not be a leap veal
| simply because, being a hundredth year, al
| though it is Invisible by 4, it is not diyis
| lble by 400 without a remainder This is
not the real reason but result Of it; the
real reason being the establishment of the
| Gregorian rule, made in L5S2
The nineteenth century will not end til
midnight of Monday, December 81, 1900
although the old quarrel will probably again
be renewed as to what constitutes a cen.
fury and when it winds up, and thousands
VIII insist on premature burial of the
OLD century at midnight of December 81
1899.
But as century means 100 years. and as
the first century could not end till full 1Ut
years had passed, nor the second till 2UC
years had passed, &c, it is not logically
clear why the nineteenth century should
be curtailed and broken off before we have
had the full 1900 years
The 1st of April and LIST of July in any
year. and in leap year the 1st of January
fall on the same day of the week
The LIST of September and LIST of December
in any year fail on the same week day
Inc lst OF January and the LIST of October
in any year fail on the same week day.
except 1t be leap year.
The LIST of February, of March and of
November of any year fall on the same
day OF the week, unless it be a leap year
when January !, April l and July l fall
on the same week day.
The LIST of May LIST of June and 1st n,
August in any year never fall on the same
week day, nor does any enc of the three
ever rail- on the same week day on which
any other month in the same year begins
except in leap year. when the LIST of t'ebru-
airy and the list of August fall on the same
week day.
To find out on what day of the week any
date OF this century fell: Divide the wear
by 1 and let the remainder co. Add the
quotient and the year together. then add
) more. Divide the result by T. and If the
remainder Is o. March of that year was
sunday; If !, Monday: If . Tuesday. and
SO on.
For the last century, do the same thing.
but add instead of ). For the next CEN
fury. add . instead.
II Is needless to go beyond the next CEN
fury, because its survivors will probahIy
nave some shorter method, and find out by
simply touching a knob or letting a knoh
touch them.
Christmas of any year always falls on
the same day of the week as the ID of
January of that year. unless it be a lea
year when 1t Is the same week day as the
81 day OF January of that year.
Easter is always the first Sunday after
the full moon that happens on or next
after March 81. 1t is not easy to see how,
II can occur earlier than March 22 or later
IMAM april 70 IN any year.
NeW year January u will happen on
Sunday but once more during this centprv.
that VIII be in 1872 In the next century
II VIII occur fourteen times only. as fol
lows: 1919, 1911 l92l, 1928. 1881. 1870 IAN,
d9oo 1901, 1867, 1878, 1881, 1859 and 1885
Inc intervals are regular-6-5-G-l1, G-5-6- II
except the interval which includes the
hundredth year that is not a century. when
there Is break-as 1888. 1899, 1905. 1911
Mnen tnree intervals of six years come to-
gether; after that plain SAILING tiIi .,ooI
when the old intervals will occur in recuIa r