Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-01-25
Saint Maras Beacon

Il sG'URIosrrIEs OF The CALENDAR.
-. The year 1900 will not be leap
year simply because, beiug hum
dredth year, although IL Is divisible
by 4, it is not divisible by 400 with
out q remainder. This Is not the
real reason, but result of it /; the
real reason being the establishment
Of the Gregorian rule, made in 1852.
The nineteenth century will not
end till midnight Of Monday, De-
cember 81, 1900, although the old
quarrel will probably again be re-
newed as to what constitutes GEN.
tury, and when it winds up, and
thousands viii insist on a prema-
ture burial Of the old century at
midnight of December 81, 1899.
But, rs century means 100
years, and as the first century
could not end till full 100 years
had passed, nor the second till 200
years had passed, etc., it is not logi-
cally clear why the nineteenth GEN.
: fury should be curtailed and broken
OF before we have had the full 1900
years.
The LIST of April and 1st Of July
in any year, and in leap year the LIST
of January, fall on the same day Of
the same week.
The LIST of September and 1st Of
December in any year fall on the
same week day.
The 1st of January and the LIST
Of October in any year fall on the
same week day, except it be leap
year.
The 1st Of February, of March
and of November of any year fall
on the same day of the week. un-
less it be leap year, when January
1, April / and July l fall on the
same week day.
The LIST Of May, 1st Of June and
1st of August in any year never
fall on the same week day, nor
does any one of the three ever fall
on the same week day on which any
other month in the same year be.
gins, except in leap year, when the
1st of February and the 1st Of
August fall on the same week and
day.
To find ont on what day of the
week any date of this century fell
Divide .he year by 4 and let the re
mainder go. Add the quotient
and the year together, then add ;
more. Divide the result by z, and
if the remainder is o March ! o.
that year was Sunday, if Monday
if Tuesday, and so on.
For the last century do the same
thing, but add 4 instead 3. Fol
the next century add 2 instead.
1t is needless to 60 beyond th,
next century, because its survivor
will probably have some shortei
method, and find out by simpl,
touching a knob or letting knoll
touch them.
Christmas of any year Away
falls on the same day of the weel
as the 2 of January of that year
unless it be leap year, when it il
the same week day as the of Jan
nary of that year.
Easter is always the first Sunda,
after the full moon that happens oil
or next after March 81. 1t is no
easy to see how it can occur earliel
that March % or later than Apri
20 in any year.
New Year (January y will hap
pen on Sunday but once more dur
ing this century that will be in
1899. In the next century it vii
occur fourteen times only, as fol
lows 1905, 1911, 1922. 1928, 1888
1889, 1850, 1856, 1861, 1867, 1878
1884, 1889 and 1895. The inter
walls are regular-6-5-6-11, G-5-6-ll
except the interval which includes
the hundredth year that is not .
century, when there is break-as
1893. 1899, 1905, 191l-when three
intervals of six years come together;
after that plain sailing till 2O0l,
when the old intervals will occur
in regular order.