TIME DIFFERENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON STANDARD (EASTERNt) TIME IN THE UNITED STATES AS COMPARED WITH THE CLOCKS IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES: At places marked the time noted is in the morning of the FOLLOWING day. †EASTERN " time Includes: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Norfolk, Charleston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, etc. "CENTRAL," which is one hour slower than Eastern time, includes: Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Miwaukee, Kansas City, Omaha, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis, Savannah, Pensacola, Winnipeg, etc. "MOUNTAIN," which is two hours slower than Eastern time, Includes: Denver, Leadville, Colorado Springs, Helena, Regina (N. W. T.), etc. "PACIFIC," which is three hours slower than Eastern time, Includes: San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Victoria, Vancouver, Tacoma, Seattle, etc. OLD ENGLISH HOLIDAYS. THESE holidays, with their names, had their origin in mediæval England when the State religion was that of the Church of Rome, and they are still JANUARY 6. TWELFTH DAY, or Twelfth-tide, sometimes called Old Christmas Day, the same as Epiphany. The previous evening is Twelfth Night, with which many social rites have long been connected. FEBRUARY 2. CANDLEMAS: Festival of the Purification of the Virgin. Consecration of the lighted candles to be used in the church during the year. FEBRUARY 14. OLD CANDLEMAS: St. Valentine's Day. MARCH 25, LADY DAY: Annunciation of the Virgin. April 6 is old Lady Day. JUNE 24. MIDSUMMER DAY: Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. July 7 is old Midsummer Day. JULY 15. ST. SWITHIN'S DAY. There was an old superstition that if rain fell on this day it would continue forty days. AUGUST 1. LAMMAS DAY: Originally in England the festival of the wheat harvest. In the Church the festival of St. Peter's miraculous deliverance froin prison. Old Lammas Day is August 13. observed generally or in some parts of Britain. SEPTEMBER 29. MICHAELMAS: Feast of St. Michael, the Archangel. Old Michaelmas is October 11. NOVEMBER 1. ALL-HALLOWMAS: All-hallows, or All Saints" Day. The previous evening is All-hallow-e'en, observed by home gatherings and old-time festive rites. NOVEMBER 2. ALL SOULS' DAY Day of prayer for the souls of the dead. NOVEMBER 11. MARTINMAR: Feast of St. Martin. Old Martinmas is November 23. DECEMBER 28. CHILDERMAS: Holy Innocents' Day. Lady Day, Midsummer Day, Michaelmas, and Christmas are quarter (rent) days in England, and Whitsunday, Martinmas, Candlemas, and Lammas Day in Scotland. Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, and Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, are observed by the Church. Mothering Sunday is Mid-Lent Sunday, in which the old rural custom obtains of visiting one's parents and making them presents. EARTHQUAKE AREAS OF THE EARTH. FROM Major de Montessus de Balore's catalogue of 130,000 shocks, indicating with some scientific accuracy how the symptoms of seismic activity are manifested over the earth's surface. The period of observation includes generally the last fifty years; but there is no reason to suppose that a longer time would materially affect the proportionate numbers. The most shaken countries of the world are Italy, Japan, Greece, South America (the Pacific coast), Java, Sicily, and Asia Minor. The lands most free from these convulsions are Africa, Australia, Russia, Siberia, Scandinavia, and Canada. As a rule, where earthquakes are most frequent they are most severe. But to this general statement there are exceptions-Indian shocks, though less numerous, being often very disastrous, Loss of life in many cases depends, however, on density of population rather than on the intensity of the earth movement. Numerically, also, France has registered more seismic tremors than Spain and Portugal, but France in historic times has experienced no earthquake disaster approaching the havoc wrought by the one calamity at Lisbon. THE MAGNETIC POLES. THE geographical poles of the earth are the extremities of the imaginary line passing through its centre of gravity and about which it revolves, and are therefore symmetrically located with regard to the equator. The magnetic poles, however, are not coincident with the geographical poles, nor are they diametrically opposite to each other. Prior to the recent attempt of Amundsen to determine the north magnetic pole, the only other was by Capt. James Ross in June, 1831, who found the dip of the magnetic needle to be 89° 59.5, in latitude 70° 5' 2 N. and longitude 96° 45′ .8 W., which is in King William Land, Canada. The result of Amundsen's observations has not yet been published by the Norwegian authorities. The position of the south magnetic pole has been located in latitude 72° 23' S. and longitude 154° E.. by Prof. Edward David and Mr. Douglas Marson, members of Lieut. Shackleton's expedition to the South Pole, which left New Zealand on January 1. 1908. By reason of the annual variation of the magnetic needle, it is believed that the magnetic poles are not stationary, but have a slow motion around the geographical poles. The subject is shrouded in mystery and constitutes one of the many as yet unsolved problems in terrestrial physics. JANUARY 1. NEW YEAR'S DAY: In all States JANUARY 8. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE FEBRUARY. MARDI-GRAS: In the parish of FEBRUARY 12. GEORGIA DAY: In Georgia. FEBRUARY MARCH. First Wednesday prior to Spring election at which Circuit Judges are elected and in counties and cities where offices are filled at Spring election in Michigan, MARCH (Third Tuesday). PRIMARY ELECTION DAY: (every Presidential year) in North Dakota. MARCH 2. ANNIVERSARY OF TEXAN INDEPENDENCE: In Texas, MARCH 4. INAUGURATION DAY: In District of Columbia in years when a President of the U. S. is inaugurated. MARCH 22. EMANCIPATION DAY: In Porto Rico. SEPTEMBER 6, 1915. LABOR DAY: In all the States (and District of Columbia and Alaska). In Louisiana, observed in Orleans Parish. SEPTEMBER, PRIMARY ELECTION DAY: In Nevada and Wisconsin, First Tuesday. SEPTEMBER (Third Saturday). REGATTA DAY: In Territory of Hawaii. SEPTEMBER 9. ADMISSION DAY: In California. SEPTEMBER 12. "OLD DEFENDERS' DAY": In Baltimore, Md. OCTOBER 12. COLUMBUS DAY: In Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia. OCTOBER 18. ALASKA DAY. In Alaska. OCTOBER 31. ADMISSION DAY: In Nevada, NOVEMBER1. ALL SAINTS' DAY: In Louisiana. NOVEMBER (first Friday), PIONEER DAY: In Montana, observed in public schools, NOVEMBER 2. GENERAL ELECTION DAY: In Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, (from 12 м. to 5.30 P. M. only), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, (biennially in even years) South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and therein. In 1915 in States holding such elections the date is November 2. APRIL (First Monday in 1916 and every four Wyoming, in the years when elections are held years thereafter). PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY: In Michigan. APRIL 2, 1915. GOOD FRIDAY: In Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey Pennsylvania, Porto Rico, Tennessee. APRIL 12. HALIFAX INDEPENDENCE RESOLUTIONS: In North Carolina. APRIL 13, THOMAS JEFFERSON'S BIRTHDAY: In Alabama. APRIL 19. PATRIOTS' DAY: in Maine and Massachusetts. APRIL 21. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF APRIL 26, CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY: In In MAY (Second Friday). CONFEDERATE DAY: In Tennessee, MAY 20. ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: In North Carolina, MAY 30, DECORATION DAY: In all the States (and District of Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska), except Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. JUNE 3. JEFFERSON DAVIS'S BIRTHDAY: In JUNE1L, KAMEHAMEHA DAY: In Ter. Hawaii, DAY: In North Dakota. JULY 4. INDEPENDENCE DAY: In all the States, and District of Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska. JULY 10. ADMISSION DAY: In Wyoming. JULY 24. PIONEERS' DAY: In Utah, JULY 25. LANDING OF AMERICAN TROOPS: Porto Rico. DAY: In Texas. THANKSGIVING DAY NOVEMBER 25, 1915. (usually the last Thursday in November): Is observed in all the States, and in the District of Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska, thoughin some States it is not a statutory holiday. DECEMBER 25. CHRISTMAS DAY: In all the States and District of Columbia, Porto Rico and Alaska, Sundays and Fast Days are legal holidays in all the States which designate them as such, There are no statutory holidays in Mississippi, but by common consent the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas are observed. In New Mexico, Washington's Birthday, Decoration Day, Labor Day, Flag Day (June 14) and Arbor Day are holidays when so designated by the Governor. In South Carolina, Thursday of Fair Week is a legal holiday. ARBOR DAY is a legal holiday in many States, although in some it is observed as designated by the Governor. Every Saturday after 12 o'clock noon is a legal holiday in California in public offices, Illinois (in cities of 200,000 or more inhabitants), Maryland, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, the District of Columbia (for banking purposes), and in New Orleans, La., and Charleston, S. C.; in Louisiana in all cities exceeding 10,000 inhabitants; in Missouri in cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants; in Tennessee, for State and county officers, and in Colorado during June, July and August; in Indiana, first Saturday in June to last Saturday in October, inclusive, for all public offices in counties having a county-seat of 100,000 population or more; in New Hampshire in State offices. There is no national holiday, not even the Fourth of July. Congress has at various times appointed special holidays. In the second session of the Fifty-third Congress it passed an act making Labor Day a public holiday in the District of Columbia, and it has recognized the existence of certain days as holidays for commercial purposes, but, with the exception named, there is no general statute on the subject. The proclamation of the President desigrating a day of Thanksgivof Columbia and the Territories. JULY (Fourth Saturday). PRIMARY ELECTION AUGUST. PRIMARY ELECTION DAY: In Missouri. In Michigan (last Tuesday in August preceding every general November election). AUGUST 1. COLORADO DAY: In Colorado. AUGUST 16, BENNINGTON BATTLE DAY: In ing only makes it a legal holiday in the District Vermont. TIME DIFFERENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON STANDARD (EASTERNT) TIME IN THE UNITED STATES AS COMPARED WITH THE CLOCKS IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES: * At places marked the time noted is in the morning of the FOLLOWING day. "EASTERN" time Includes: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Norfolk, Charleston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, etc. "CENTRAL," which is one hour slower than Eastern time, includes: Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Miwaukee, Kansas City, Omaha, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis, Savannah, Pensacola, Winnipeg, etc. "MOUNTAIN," which is two hours slower than Eastern time, Includes: Denver, Leadville, Colorado Springs, Helena, Regina (N. W. 'T.), etc. "PACIFIC," which is three hours slower than Eastern time, Includes: San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Victoria, Vancouver, Tacoma, Seattle, etc. OLD ENGLISH HOLIDAYS. THESE holidays, with their names, had their origin in medisæval England when the State religion was that of the Church of Rome, and they are still JANUARY 6. TWELFTH DAY, or Twelfth-tide, sometimes called Old Christmas Day, the same as Epiphany. The previous evening is Twelfth Night, with which many social rites have long been connected. FEBRUARY 2. CANDLEMAS: Festival of the Purification of the Virgin. Consecration of the lighted candles to be used in the church during the year. FEBRUARY 14. OLD CANDLEMAS: St. Valentine's Day. MARCH 25. LADY DAY: Annunciation of the Virgin. April 6 is old Lady Day. JUNE 24. MIDSUMMER DAY: Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. July 7 is old Midsummer Day. JULY 15. ST. SWITHIN'S DAY. There was an old superstition that if rain feil on this day it would continue forty days. AUGUST 1. LAMMAS DAY: Originally in England the festival of the wheat harvest. In the Church the festival of St. Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison. Old Lammas Day is August 18. observed generally or in some parts of Britain. SEPTEMBER 29. MICHAELMAS: Feast of St. Michael, the Archangel. Old Michaelmas is October 11. NOVEMBER 1. ALL-HALLOWMAS: All-hallows, or All Sainta Day. The previous evening is All-hallow-e'en, observed by home gatherings and old-time festive rites, NOVEMBER 2. ALL SOULS' DAY Day of prayer for the souls of the dead. NOVEMBER 11. MARTINMAS: Feast of St. Martin. Old Martinmas is November 23. Дискмвки 28. CHILDERMAS: Holy Innocents' Day. Lady Day, Midsummer Day, Michaelmas, and Christmas are quarter (rent) days in England, and Whitsunday, Martinmas, Candlemas, and Lammas Day in Scotland. Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, and Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, are observed by the Church. Mothering Sunday is Mid-Lent Sunday, in which the old rural custom obtains of visiting one's parents and making them presents. EARTHQUAKE AREAS OF THE EARTH. FROM Major de Montessus de Balore's catalogue of 130,000 shocks, indicating with some scientific accuracy how the symptoms of seismic activity are manifested over the earth's surface. The period of observation includes generally the last fifty years; but there is no reason to suppose that a longer time would materially affect the proportionate numbers. The most shaken countries of the world are Italy, Japan, Greece, South America (the Pacific coast), Java, Sicily, and Asia Minor. The lands most free from these convulsions are Africa, Australia, Russia, Siberia, Scandinavia, and Canada. As a rule, where earthquakes are most frequent they are most severe. But to this general statement there are exceptions-Indian shocks, though less numerous, being often very disastrous. Loss of life in many cases depends, however, on density of population rather than on the intensity of the earth movement. Numerically, also, France has registered more seismic tremors than Spain and Portugal, but France in historic times has experienced no earthquake disaster approaching the havoc wrought by the one calamity at Lisbon, THE MAGNETIC POLES. THE geographical poles of the earth are the extremities of the Imaginary line passing through its centre of gravity and about which it revolves, and are therefore symmetrically located with regard to the equator. The magnetic poles, however, are not coincident with the geographical poles, nor are they diametrically opposite to each other. Prior to the recent attempt of Amundsen to determine the north magnetic pole, the only other was by Capt. James Ross in June, 1831, who found the dip of the magnetic needle to be 89° 59' .5, in latitude 70° 5' 2 N. and longitude 96° 45′ .8 W., which is in King William Land, Canada. The result of Amundsen's observations has not yet been published by the Norwegian authorities. The position of the south magnetic pole has been located in latitude 72° 23' S. and longitude 154° E., by Prof. Edward David and Mr. Douglas Marson, members of Lieut. Shackleton's expedition to the South Pole, which left New Zealand on January 1. 1908. By reason of the annual variation of the magnetic needle, it is believed that the magnetic poles are not stationary, but have a slow motion around the geographical poles. The subject is shrouded in mystery and constitutes one of the many as yet unsolved problems in terrestrial physics. 4 в. с. 1183 Fall of Troy. 1032 Era of the Great Pyramid. 878 Carthage founded. 776 Olympic Era began. 753 Foundation of Rome. A. D. MEMORABLE DATES. A. D. 1714 Accession of House of Hanover, Aug.1 1863 Battle of of Gettysburg, July 1-8. 1865 Pres. Lincoln assassinated, April 14. 1745 Battle of Fontenoy, April 30. 588 Jerusalem taken by Nebuchadnezzar. A. D. 29 The Crucifixion. 70 Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus. 313 Constantine converted to Christianity 410 The Romans abandoned Britain. 827 Egbert, first king of England, Oct.14. 1066 Battle of Hastings, Norman Conquest 1096 The Crusades began. 1179 Ireland was conquered by Henry II. 1915 King John granted Magna Charta, Jane 15. 1265 First Representative Parliament in England. 1415 Battle of Agincourt, Oct. 25. 1431 Joan of Arc was burnt, May 30. 1453 Constantinople taken by by the Turks. 1455 'The Wars of the Roses began. 1773 Steam engine perfected by Watt. 1775 Battle of Lexington, April 19. 1870 Franco-German War began, July 19. 1870 French capitulated at Sedan, Sept. 1. 1870 Rome became the capital of Italy. 1871 The German Empire re-established. 1871 The Irish Church was disestablished. 1871 The great fire in Chicago, Oet. 8-11. 1776 Declaration of Independence, July 4. 1872 The great fire in Boston Nov. 9. 1777 Burgoyne's surrender, Oct. 17. 1876 Prof. Bell perfected the telephone. 1876 Centennial Exposit'r at Philadelphia 1781 Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, 1881 President Garfield shot, July 2. Oct. 19. 1882 Tuberculosis germ discovered by Dr. Koh. 1432 The Bible was first printed at Mentz. 1535 The first English Bible printed. 1812 The French expedition to Moscow. 1565 St. Augustine, Fla., settled. 1579 The St. Bartholomew Massacre, Aug.24 1588 The Spanish Armada defeated, July. 1603 Union of England and Scotland. 1605 The Gunpowder I'lot in England. 1607 Jamestown, Va., was settled. 1609 Hudson River first explored. 1616 Shakespeare died, April 23. 1618 Thirty Years' War in Germany began. 1620 Pilgrims by the Mayflower landed. 1623 Manhattan Island settled." 1634 Maryland settled by Roman Catholics 1814 The printing machine invented. 1835 Morse invented the telegraph. 1899 "Greater New York" bill signed 1900 Boxer Insurrection in China. 1901 Assassina tion of President McKinley 1906 San Francisco earthquake and con- 1835 Seminole War in Florida began. 1846 Sewing machine completed by Howe. 1908 1636 Khode Island settled by Roger 1846 The Irish Potato Famine. Williams. Great Earthquake in Southern Italy. 1909 The North l'ole discovered, April 6. Republic of Portugal establishi d. The Italian-Turkish War began. 1846 British Corn laws repealed, June 26. 1910 1640 Cromwell's Long Parliament assem-1846 War with Mexico began. bled. 1649 Charles I. was beheaded, Jan. 30. 1653 Cromwell became Lord Protector. 1660 Restoration of the Stuarts. 1664 New York conquered from the Dutch. 1664 The great plague of London. 1911 1848 French Revolution. Republic suc-1911 The South Pole discovered, Dec. 14. 1911 China proclaimed a Republic. ceeded. 1848 Gold discovered in California, Sept. 1912 Steamship Titanie wrecked, April 14. 1851 Gold discovered in Australia, Feb. 19 1912 Balkan War began. 1851 First International Exhibit'n, London. 1913 Ohio and Indiana floods, March 25-27. 1666 The great fire of London began Sept. 2. 1853 Crimean War began. land. 1689 Pennsylvania settled by Wm. Penn. 1857 The Dred Scott decision. 1857 First Atlantic cable message, Aug. 4. 1690 Battle of the Boyne, July 1, Boston. 1704 Gibraltar was taken by the English. 1713 Peace of Utrecht, April 11. 1863 Lincoln's Emancipation Proclama-1914 Japan dec'd war on Germany, Aug.23. THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY ERA In September, 1793, the convention decreed that the common ers should be abolished in all civil affairs, and that the new French era should begin on September 22, 1792, the day of the true autumnal équinox, and that each succeeding year should begin at the midnight of the day on which the true autumnal equinox falls. The year was divided into twelve months of thirty days each. In ordinary years there were five extra days, from the 17th to the 21st of our September, and at the end of every fourth year was a sixth complimentary day. This reckoning was first used on November 22, 1793, and was continued until December 31, 1805, when it was discontinued, and the Gregorian calendar, used throughout the sumed. The following were the dates for the year 1801, the last complete year of this style of reckoning: The months were divided into three decades of ten days each, but to make up the 365 five were added at the end of September: Primidi, dedicated to Virtue; Duodi, to Genius; Tridi, to Labor; Quartidi, to Opinion, and Quintidi, to Rewards. To Leap Year, called Olympie, a sixth day, September 22 or 23, Sextidi, the day of the the Revolution," was added. To each tenth day, thirty-six in all, were assigned thirty-six "Fetes Decadaires," decreed by the National Convention on the eighteenth Prairial, in honor of the Supreme Being and Nature, the Human Race, the French People, Benefactors of Humanity, Martyrs for Liberty, Liberty and Equality, the Republic, Liberty of the World, Love of Country, Hatred of Tyrants and Traitors, Truth, Justice, Modesty, Glory and Immortality, Friendship, Frugality, Courage, Good Faith, Heroism, Disinterestedness, Stoicism, Love, Conjugal Fidelity, Paternal Love, Maternal Tenderness, Filial Piety, Infancy, Childhood, Manhood, Old Age, Sickness, Agriculture, Industry, Our Ancestors, Our Posterity, Goodness. DATES OF HISTORICAL EVENTS CUSTOMARILY OR OCCASIONALLY OBSERVED. 1. Emancipation Proclamation by Lincoln, July 1-3. Battle of Gettysburg, 1863. 6789 101112 13 14 15 16 17 18 6307307 74 July. 3 1 5678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3031 123 3 4 5 Aug. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1819 2526 296 185 10 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 |