The Topeka state journal., 1900-02-20
SOME ODD THINGS
Scheduled by Michigan Statistician
to Occur in the goth Century.
[From the Philadelphia Times.1

IL rom the Pn1laQelpnld 1lHleS.l
There was queer genius in town a
few days ago. and he had a fad that
is stranger than those usually encoun-
tered in faGdists His name was Riley
Y. Moore, and he hailed from Battle
Creek, Mich. Mr.. Moore's favorite oc-
cupation during his odd moments is to
collect all sorts of information and ad-
vance statistics concerning the twen-
tieth century. He has a large scrap
book full of newspaper clippings, con-
tanning many interesting facts concern
ing the next one hundred years. Be
sides the book of clippings he has a
note book, in which he has written a
great deal of matter that was told him.
Mr.. Moore allowed a reporter to look
through his scrap book, and Gull the
following bits of information, which
may prove interesting:
The twentieth century will com
mence on January 1, 1901 1t will open
on Tuesday and close on Sunday 1t
will have the greatest number of leap
years pOsslDle-24. The year 1904 will
be the first one, then every fourth year
after that to and including the year
1000. February will have three times
five Sundays-in 1920, 1948 and 1876.
In 1901, federal Memorial day, Fourth
of July and Thanksgiving day will
occur the same day of the week. Then,
after that the same thing will happen
at the following intervals: g. IL, IL, 8,
II, II years and so on, or in 1907, 1918.
1929, 1885, and so on.
In the years 1912. 1914, 1869 and 1896
there are four holidays that will fall on
the same day of the week-the three
already mentioned and Washington S
birthday anniversary, as also the 20 h
of February
Thanksgiving day and Christmas will
occur the same day in the week in 1906,
and then at successive intervals of II, 6,
II, II, 6, II years, and SO on; also in
1928, 1856, and 1884. March 4 will fall on
Sunday in the inaugural years 1871
194S and 1913. The same yearly calendar
that was in 1895 can be used again in
1901
The following years in order be-
ginning with 1901, the dates of Easter
for the first % years of the century:
April Z, March 80, April u, 8, %, Is,
March 81, April Q. II. March o. April 16,
Z, March %, April Il, T. %, g. March 81,
April 20, March 81, April 16, l, 20, 12.
The earliest possible date on which
Easter car occur is March 90 The
last time it occurred on this date was
in 1918. uut it will not occur again until
| after the twentieth century. The latest
Easter thai can occur is April &c, and
it will thus occur but once in the COM
ing centurJ-in 1943 The last time 1t
occurred was April g. 1886 Whenever
Easter occurs on March q, or April s,
10, II or "a, Christmas also occurs on
Sunday.
Though one of the objects aimed at
by the church authorities who fixed
upon the method of determining the
dates Of Easter was to prevent it's oc
curing on the same date as the Jewish
Passover, nevertheless the two events
will occur together four times in the
twentieth century-April u, 1903; April
I, 1928; April II, 1927 and April 19. 1881.
The twentieth century will contain
So 525 days, which lacks one day of be-
ing exactly 5,218 weeks. The day of the
week that will not occur as often as
each of the others is Monday. Fifteen
out OF the 100 years will begin on
Wednesday and the same number on
Friday. Fourteen will begin on each
of the other days of the week.
Several announcements are made of
changes to be inaugurated with the
opening of the new century. The first
of Importance is that Russia will adopt
the Gregorian calendar. This will be
done nv omitting IS days, the amount
of the error that will have accumulated
after the close of February, 1900. The
Russian will then write January l, 1901,
instead of December 19, 1900.
AS to ecipses in the coming century,
there will be about $50 of them. the
number of solar being to the number of
lunar in about the ratio of to g.