Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-01-09

LfW WAN
poras dispatches recently have call.
"a attention % the fact that mum
orour unfortunate children who we're
born ou February 2H. 1896, wIi ob.
serve their Crest birthday Anniversary
this year. ino reason, of course. Do
that owing t1 n peculiarly Of the
RrcrorIan CALENDAR 1900 was not
leap year although 90 De- Invisible by
tour Had ne children 1cou natives
u Wur#Ia they would nave been pro-
videa WIEN a e9th of February Tour
years ago for csc crar'6 suhierta Fiil
1.-Two under the dIsrousat.on establish.
cf or Iulus Caesar
70 was determined long before The
Christian era that about 300 Gays
oopefiiutfd % year i.C shadow ratt
~ IA trse aI noon AL everyone knows.
grows LONGER HHfrr tho summer ana
autumn uliI % JtiH.rE ItF mthImum
tsnrth ON ncremho. 90 Then 10 snort.
ems until June 10 ahen DO reaches
la mIuI..um che uciCnt astronom.
era kopt track OF Che time that olnpa'
I'd between two maximum noon ghad-
avs and 90 aaeortainod tho nrpIufi-
mate ieuaih ~ thc year ln."r ii Whs
sIacovcrod that the estimates were
no short By about "a quarter oi day
and that as consequence the ealen.
ear was telling into confusion. The
ionn OF q day every four years would
menn the omission of nearly
nonth in a century.
Whom Julius caesar rose TO power
the autumn months wore coming n
the summo- To pIt m Gro 20 this
disorder upon tls advice OF t'e Esyn.
tlan astronomer gosigonCH drcrccd
thaf every fourth year should CON
airt OF 1886 dBys Tom in order to 20.
store the surInH o1uI11r tl March 20.
na date uuIor one of che carly kings,
be prolonged tlr current year to $50
aays This was called 'if. l1Ht year
Of confusion" Tho 0rst year Of tho
Julian era BEGAN January T. of me
e1rty sixth year before Che h.fih OF
Christ % may hc observed in pa7a.
Ing. Tor the benefit o' those persons
who have dmcuts bob rcr1I'1E the
number of llys Coz 60 various months
that Caesar btt pla ned t1 wrNc the
calendar Ga sWpls ag l"sstlc 10y
dccrcolng that every l'Cr7l7 month
beginning with January SHOULD have
thlrty.ono day7. and that On" others
should have thirty. excepting feh-
ruary. which was 60 have twenty
alne IN ordinary years and thirty tn
lean years. The present irregular ar
rangcmtut Was adopted 90 crafty
the vanity OF Augustus Under tho
Julian calendar the month named for
Elm. August. Rad only thirty days He
rave 10 an extra day which be- took
from February. 1ne length nf Tho
succeeding months vac then altered
- avoid the maBslnE of three with
thirty.ouo days each.
S0slrcnos. however. was not exactly
correct. Tor the lonrth o' the year ia
really 365 days. Eve hours, foriy.gighi
minutos ana torty.riy seconds So the
Julian calendar Itself slowly became
involved lu discrepancies by lbh.
she spring equinox had fallen bach
b. March m Therefore Pope Gregory
XIII undcrt0,k a second reformation
BY surnressIng ten days since 10 was
known that error iu the Julian Gallon
OAR amounted t1 three days u iO0
wears tine uor ordered the extra day
az February t1 bo omitted from an
centenary years excepting those that
are muHuIrs of 500 Tho 1000 was
leap year. but l7uO lsUn and 1900
were nos although those numbers
arc dpy.sIbIo hy four England adopt
cd The Grcsoruu calendar Boz 1869 hul
10 mas not So, been adopted 100 Rus
sia GOO that empire tHo last three
centenary years have H,au regarded
a. lDau years Hence the original
ten days divergence between the
Old style and the now has n0w I'm
creased FEB thirteen