The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-05
1889 To Be Year
OF -Four EcLipses

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Four eclipses, two of the sun and
two of the moon, will occur in 1899,
according to DR.. B. F. Yanney, as
tronomer and professor of mathemat-
les at the College of Wooster.
The eclipses of the sun will occur
April 10 and October IL. The eclipses
of the moon come May and October
81 and %.
The first eclipse of the sun will be
visible in the United States, but in
and will just Craze the north pole. 1t
will be partial in all of the United
States except the peninsular part of
Florida
The second eclipse lies largely with
in the antarctic regions, visible in small
areas in New Zealand, southeastern
Australia and the southern tip of South
| America.
| The first lunar eclipse will not be
visible in the United State, but in a
region over the Pacific, Antarctic and
Indian oceans, Alaska, Australia, Asia,
almost all of Africa and eastern
Europe. The second, about 80 per
cent total, will include most of the
area missed by the first.
The Wooster professor stated that
the sun, already on its northward jour
ney will cross the celestial equator
March 21 at 1929 a. m. On June % at
2:40 a. M, the sun will reach summer
solstice. This is as far north as the
sun will get. September %, at $3.50
| D. M, the sun will recross the equator
and on December %, at LOG p. m. the
sun reaches the winter solstice.
"The month of July will have two
full moons" points out the Wooster
Professor. "The moon begins the year
in what is known as 'gibbous' phase,
because of the moons bumped appear
ance."
| 1t will become full moon January 5,
then again gibbous, diminish to last
quarter January IL, new moon January
20 and half moon or first quarter jan
uary 28.
Beginning in March, the moons
phases begin earlier each month until
July when full moon comes on July1
and the second full moon on July 81.
After that month, the full moon will
come toward the end of the month.
| DR.. Yanney notes the following feat
! ures about the 1889 calendar. 1t is
the same pattern as the CALENDARS for
| 1905, 1911,1922 and 1888 and the cal
endar for any one of those four years
will serve as accurately as the 1899
chart. 1t will also be the for the year
of 1850, 1861, 1867, 1878, 1889, and
1895.
Five months, January, April, July
October and December, each have five
Sundays and four complete weeks. The
only other months to have four COM
plete weeks is September.
January and October are the only
months which are exactly alike. There
are eleven monthly patterns for this
year. Three month, February, March,
and November each begin on Wednes-
day. Saturday is the only day of the
week that does not fall at least once
on any given day of the month. The
one day is the thinty-frst Twice this
rare day of the month falls on Tues
day
"The year 1881 had been chosen by
| those interested in calendar reform for
the Inauguration of the new calendar,
said DIR Yanney." Unfortunately worlc
conditions have stood in the way OF
the adoption of the World Calendar"
The proposal was to leave January
unchanged, to February two days were
to be added, taken from March. The
third month was to be a thirty day
month, taking one from April to make
up one lost to February. This woulc
complete the first quarter of the yeal
for ninety-one days.
| July, August and September woult
| make the third quarter with one da.
taken from August and added to July
| September would have been unchanged
| For the last quarter, October, No
vember and December, world remain
as they are, except thai what is nov
| December 81 would be ue,-ched ant
given the proper name "Year Day."
1t is thus seen that no day of tht
present years calendar would have
been shifted more than two days ant
about onehaf of the calendar woult
not be changed at ALL
The year 1910 would begin on Sun
day, have four complete quarters, ant
the extra day for leap year would come
between the second and third quarters
and be called leap Day.
The next year for such an easy
transfer will be 1860.