The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-06
CALENDAR otRIosITIEs.
Facts That VIII Astonish Pursue
af Tho Record of IAafnS

Facts That Will ton PufSuefs
of the Record of Dates.
The year 1900 will not be a leap year sim
ply because being a hundredth year; although
it is divisible by four, it is not divisible by
400 without a remainder. This is not the
real reason, but the result of 1.-THE real
reason being the establishment of the Gregg
rian rule made in 1882.
The nineteenth century will not enc till
midnight of December 81, 1900, although
the old quarrel will probably again be re-
newed as to what constitutes a century and
when it winds up, and thousands will insist
on a premature burial of the old century at
midnight of December 81, 1899. But, as a
century means 100 years, and as the first
century could not end until a full hundred
years had passed, nor the second till 20O
| 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.
year, and in leap year the LIST of January
fall on the same day of the week.
The 1st OF September andf1st of December
in any year fall on the same week day. a
The 1st of January of and LIST of October
in any year fall on the same week day, x
cept it be a leap year.
The 1st of january and the 1st of October
of any year fall on the same day of the week,
| unless it be a leap year, when January l,
April, and July l fall on the same week day.
The LIST of May, 1st of June and LIST 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 LIST of August
fall on the same week day.
To find ont what day of the week any
date of this century fell:-Divide the year
by A and let the remainder go. Add the
| q~uotient and the year together then add
three more. Divide the result by z, and if
the remainder is 0, March l of that year
was Sunday; if l, Monday; if 2, Tuesday,
and so on.
For the last century do the same thing,
but add 4 instead of 3. For the next CEN
fury add Q instead. 1t is needless to go be-
will probably have some shorter method,
and find out by simply touching a knob or
letting a knob touch them.
Christmas of any year always falls on the
same day of the week as the second of Jan
uary of that year unless it be a 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 % or later than
April ~ i any year.
New Year january y will happen Sun
day but once more during this century; that
will be in 1899. In the next century it will
occur fourteen times only, as follows:-19o5,
1911, 1922, 1928, 1888, 1889, 1850, 1856, 1861,
1867, 1878, 1884, 1889, 1895. The intervals
are regular, 6, 5, 8, II, 6, 5, &, 11-except the
interval which includes the hundredth year
that is not a century, when there is a break
-as 1898, 1899, 1905, 19l1-when three inter
walls of six years came together, after that
plain sailing till 2001, when the old intervals