New Ulm review., 1900-12-26
Some Strange Facts
Concerning the 1
Twentieth Century !!
i TRAVELLING MAN TELLS WHAT WILL
HAPPEN IN me NEXT CENTURY. B

other day who Is peculiar sort Of
genius. His favorite occupation during
his odd moments is to collect all sorts
Of information and advance statistics
|concerLing the Twentieth century. He
has . large scrap book full Of news
paper clippings concerning the ne1t one 'a11
hundred years and the following infor-
nation which may prove Of interest was
culled from the book
The Twentieth century will COM
mence on Jam 1, 1901. Il will open on
Tuesday and close on Sunday. Il will
have the greatest number Of leap years
possible twenty four. The year 1904
will be the frst one, then every fourth
year after that to and including the year
1000. February will three times have
five Sundays i 9o2, 194s and / 976. q
In 1901, Federal Memorial day,
Fourth Of Jnly ana Thanksgiving day
will occur the same day in the week:
There after the same thing will happen
at the following intervals: Six, eleven.
eleven, sir, eleven, eleven years and %
ON, or in 1907, 1918, 1929, 1885 and 20
on. :g
IN the years 1912, 1914, 1859 and
1896 there are four holidays that will
fall on the same day in the week the
three already mentioned and Washing
TOMS birthday anniversary, Is also the
Goth Of February. .s..5
Thanksgiving day and Christmas will
occur the same day in the week II 1906,
aod then at successive intervals of
eleven, six, eleven, eleven, six, eleven
years, and SO on; also IN 1928, 1855 and
1884. March will fall on Sunday in
the inaugural years 1917, 1919 and
1897. The same yearly calendar that wac
in use in / 895 can be used again in ] 1901.
Beginning with 1901 the dates of
Easter for the first twenty five years
of the century are April, March 80,
April 12. 3, 80, IL, March 81, April 9,
II, March ~, April is, z, March 80,
EAp1il l2, 4, 25, s, March 81, April 10,
/, 20, 12. The earliest possible date on
which Easter can occur is March 80.
The last time it occurred on this date
was III 1918, but il will not occur again
until after the Twentieth century. The
latest Easter can occur on April 26 and
it will thus occur but once in the com.
ming centur Tie last time
lit occurred was April 26, 1886. When.
ever Easter occurs on March 81, el
April 8, 10, II or "a, Christmas also
occurs on Sunday.
| Though one Of the objects aimed a
by the church authorities VITO fixed
upon the method of attaining the dates
of Easter was to preventslts occurring on
the same date as the Jewish Passover
nevertheless the two events will occur
four times in the Twentieth century
iAprll 12, 1908; April 1, 1928 !; AprilS17,
1929, and April 10, 1881.
The Twentieth century will contain
36, ,525 day which lacks one day of sl,e-
ling exactly 5,2t8 weeks. The day Oh
the week that will not. occs,r as often
as each of the others is Monday. Fif-
teen out Of 100 years will begin on on
"wednesday and the same number oll
Friday. Fourteen will begin on eacl
lof the other DAYS of the week:
Several announcements are made 81
Ichanges to be ieaugurated with THE
opening Of the new century. The first
of importance is that RUSSIA will adopt
1.-THE GregoIian calendar. This will / BE
done by omitting thirteen days, the
amount OF the error that will have &C.
cummulated atsthe close Of February
| 1900. The Russian will then write Jan
i 1901 instead Of Dec. 10, 1900.
As to eclipses 10 the coming century
there will - about $50 of them, The
number Of solar being to tho numbe,
Ilunar in about the ratio Of 4 to s.
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