Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-03-16
cURIosiTlES OF THE CALENDAR
Facts ana Figur That Will Aston.
ish Many Perusers Of the Record
OF Dates.

ish Many Perusers Of the Record
of Dates.
The year 1900 will not be leap
year simply because, being a hun
dredth year, although it is divisible by
four, it is not divisible by 400 withou!
remainder. This is not the real
reason, but a result of 1.-THE real
reason, being the establishment of the
Gregorian rule made in 1882.
The nineteenth century will not
end till midnight of Monday, Decem-
Der 81, 1900, although the old quar-
rel will probably again be renewed as
to what constitutes q century and
when it winds up, and thousands will
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 100 years had
passed, nor the second till 200 years
had passed, ETC., 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 the LIST OF July
in any year and in leap year the lat
OF January fall on the same day OF the
week.
The 1st of September and LIST OF De-
cember in any year fall on the same
week day.
The 1st of January and LIST of Oc.
tober in any year fall on the same
week day, except it be a leap year.
The LIST OF January and 1st of Oc-
tober of any year fall on the same day
of the week unless it be a leap year,
when January /, April l, and July
fall on the same week day. The 1st
of May, 1st of June and lst 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 begins, except in leap year,
when the LIST of February and the 1st
OF August fall on the same week day.
To find out what day of the week
any date Of this century fell: Divide
the year by 4 and let the remainder
90. Add the quotient and the year
together, then add three more. Divide
the result by 7, and If the remainder
is 0 March l Of that year was Sunday
if l Monday; if 2. Tuesday and sn on.
For the last century do the same
thing, but add 4 instead of 3. For the
next century add 2 instead. It is
needless to 60 beyond the next cen.
tury, because its survivors will probably
have shorter method, and find out by
simply touching knob or letting a
knob touch them.
Christmas of any year always falls
on the same day Of the week Is the
I'd OF January of that year unless it be
. leap year, when it is the same week
day as the Sd 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 it can occur earlier than
March p or later than April 26 in any
year.
New Year (January y will happen
on Sunday but once more during this
century; that will be in 1899. In the
next century it will occur IL times
only, as follows: 1905, 1911, 1922,
1928, 1888, 1889, 1850. 1856, 1861,
1867. 1878, 1884, 1889, 1895. The
intervals are regular-6-5.6-lI-6-56-l1
except the interval which includes
the hundredth year that is not q cen.
tury, when there is q break-as 1893,
1899, 1905, 1911-when three inter.
walls OF six years come together; after
that plain sailing till 2O0l, when the
old intervals will occur in regular
order.