The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23
Che 20fb CenfQpV,
The Next Hundred
Years.


st. John. Baptist (dldsummer .
Dayl 500, ......................,..Ju June "A
st. Michael (Michaelmas Day., Sept, %
81 AnoreW .-...NoV. 81
First Sunday in Advent. Dee. /
st. Nicholas .......,...,.............D 6
St lnomaS ,.,...............-...,.,,D Dec, q
Christmas Day .....................Dec 25
st. John, Evangelist -..........., dec. n
s-The twentieth sentury Will con-
tain 36,525 days, which lacks one day of
being exactly 5,21S weeks. The day OF
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. -Four
teen will begin on each of the other
days of the week.
Ch anges in cal EN- d Il 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 by emitting
thirteen days, the amount of the error
that will have accumulated after the
close of February, 1900 The Russian will
then write Jan. l, 1901, instead Of Dec.
10. 1900.
The other important announcement ia
that it is not at all likely that the astron-
onlicaI day, which now begins with the
method of having the astronomical day
10 begin twelve hours after the begin
ling of the civil day is apt TO be con-
fusing. On the other hand, to have the
former begin at midnight will be to as
trononers somewhat inconverient.
change in reck oning time
Spain has changed it's methods of reck-~
oning time, ana beginning On Jan. l,
1901, the hours of the day will be num-
hared from one to twenty-four instead
of TIE system now in use. The twenty
four-hour system was adopted several
years ago on the Western division of the
Canadian Pacific railway. The queen res
gent has signed degree establishing
the method of accounting time in the
Spanish kingdom. It isssas follows:
''In all railway, mail Qncluding tele-
graph, telephone and steamship service
in the peninsula and the Balearic ISL
ands. and in all the ministerial offices,
the courts and all public works, time
shall be regulated by the time Of the
Greenwich observatory, commonly known
as Western European time. The compH-
tation OF the hours in the above men-
toned service will be made from the hour
of midnight to the following midnight in
hours from one to twenty-fOur. emitting
the word tarde (afternoon) and neche
(night) heretofore in customary use. The
hour of midnight will be designated as
a. The interval for instance, between
midnight (24) and / O'Clock will be des-
ignated as 0:05 0:10 0:59. Government
officials are directed to observe and carry
out the decree in each and all of their
respective departments and bureaus.
Eclipse s-As to eclipses N tie COM
ing century, there will be about $50 OF
them, the number of solar being to the
oIN0 rot 10 of
l to g. In 1901 there will be two eclipses
of the sun, May IS and Nov. II, and two
of the moon, May 8 and Oct. q, but none
of the four will be visible in the United
states.
What is the very rare occurrence in
a calendar year will happen in 1885, the
first time since 1923, viz: Seven ecipses,
the largest possible number that eau
happen in a year.
There are eight solar eclipses predicted
to occur visible in the United States in
1918, 1923, 1915, 1879, 1884 and 1894. There
will also occur twelve transits of Mer-
curry A transit of Venus, however, which
is of much more Importance, will not
occur within the next century. The ear
Hest date predicted is June 8, 20C4.
Comet s-While it is claimed that at
| least 1000 comets come within visible
range of the earth within century, there
! is reasonable certainty of the recurrence
of but one extraordinary comet in the
next century. That one is known as
Halley's. It was last seen in 1885. 1t will
be due again in 1910 or 1871. The exact
time is not known, owing to slight modffi-
cation in it's orbit, due to planetary In
/ fluence. OF course, it is not Impossible
for some hitherto unobserved comet to
appear in all it's blazing glory at any
time. No astronomer knows.