Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-01-04

at by the church authorities who
liked upon the method of determin-
ing the date of Easter was to pre-
vent its occurring on the same day
as the Jewess Passover, neverthe-
less the two events will occur
together four times in the twentieth
century: April - 1903, A pril l, 1928.
April II, 1927 and April 10, 1851.
The twentieth century will contain
$685. days, which lacks but one day
of being exactly 5,219 weeks. The
day of the week that will not occur
as often as each of the others is
Monday. Fifteen out of the humid
red days will begin on Wednesday,
and the same number of Fridays.
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 by emitting thir-
teen days, the amount that will have
accumulated after the close of Feb
ruary, 1900. The Russians will then
write January !, 1901, instead of
December 10, 1900.
The other important announce
nent is that it is not at all likely
that the astronomical day which
now begins at noon of the civil
day, will begin with the civil
day at midnight. The present meth
cd of having the astronomical day
to begin twelve hours after the be-
ginning of the civil day is apt to be
confusing. On the other hand, to
have the former begin at midnight,
will be to astronomers somewhat
incOnvenient.
AS to eclipses in the coming cen
fury, there will be about $50 of them.
the number of solor being to the
number of lunor in about the ratio
of four to three
What is the very rare occurrence
in the calendar year will happen in
1875, the first since 1923, viz: Seven
eclipses, the largest possible num-
Der that can happen in year.
There are eight total solar eclips
es predicted to occur, visible in the
United States, in 1918, 1923, 1745, 1867,
1884, 1894. There will also occur
I twelve transits of Mercury A trans
it of Venus however, which is of
much more importance. will not
earliest date predicted is June s,
2OO4.
While it is claimed that at least
one thousand comets come within
visible range of the earth within the
century, there is reasonable certain
ty OF the recurrence of but one ex-
traordinary comet in the next cen
tury. That els known as Halley's,
and was last seen in 1885. Ii will be
due again in 1910 or 1911; the exact
time is not known, owing to a slight
modification in its orbit, due to
planetary influence. OF course it is
not impossible FOR some hitherto
unobserved comet to appear in all
its blazing glory at any time. No
astronomer knows.
1t has been demonstrated repeatedly
in every State in the Union and in
many foreign countries that Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy is certain pre-
tentative and cure for Group. 1t has
become the universal remedy for that
disease. NJ. V. Fisher, of Liberty, West
Virginia, only repeats what has been
said around the world when he writes:
81 have used Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in my family for several years
and Away with perfect success. We
believe that it is not only the best cough
remedy, but that it is a sure cure for
Group. 1t has saved the lives of our
children number of times" This
remedy is for sale by Nick Doffing &
Co., Extra; A. II. Roberts, Audubon.