" DAY OF 5 6 7 PLACES. Calendar for New England, N. Y. State, SUN SUN H. M. H. M. 7 9 4 28 7 10 4 28 7 11 4 28 7 12 4 28 7 13 4 28 7 14 4 28 7 15 4 28 7 16 4 28 7 17 4 28 7 18 7 19 Boston..... Wash' ton.. MOON н. น. 1 1 2 11 3 25 4 43 6 4 7 20 4 28 11 32 7 21 4 28 A. M. 7 22 4 28 12 38 7 23 4 28 7 24 4 29 1 44 2 48 4 2 4 56 7 24 4 29 7 25 4 29 7 25 4 29 5 57 7 26 4 29 6 54 7 26 4 30 rises. 7 27 4 31 1 1 sets. 7 51 4 28 9 9 4 28 10 22 5 14 6 32 7 27 4 31 7 28 4 32 5 29 6 32 7 36 8 40 7 28 4 32 9 44 7 28 4 33 10 49 7 29 4 33,11 55 7 29 4 34 A. M. 7 29 4 35 1 5 7 30 4 36 2 19 DAY OF Dec. Begins, A. M. DECEMBER, 1915. Calendar for NEW YORK CITY, R. M. 5 29 5 27 5 25 4 33 7 56 4 33 9 12 4 33 10 24 4 34 5 51 4 31 6 46 4 34 rises. 7 21 4 34 5 36 7 21 4 35 6 37 7 22 4 35 7 40 4 36 8 43 4 36 9 46 7 22 4 37 10 49 DAY OF Ends, P. M. H. M. 69 6 11 6 13 6. 20 11 sets. 5 21 6 37 11 11 Virginia, Kentucky, Calendar for SUN Dec. Begins, A. M.. H. M. H. M. H. M. 6 59 4 40 1 7 0 4 39 2 7 1 4 39 3 19 7 2 4 39 4 34 7 3 4 39 5 52 7 4 4 38 7 5 4 38 7 6 4 38 7 8 7 9 7 14 4 39 4 45 4 40 5 44 4 40 4 41 7 17 4 42 7 44 4 43 8 45 4 44 9 47 7 17 H. M. 538 5 36 5 33 5 25 SUN MOON H. M. 8. H. M. H. M. H. M. H. M. 1 11 48 52 8 11 51 42 2 11 49 14 14 11 54 27 9 11 52 9 15 11 54 56 11 49 38 10 11 52 36 16 11 55 25 TOEOLOON 20 11 57 22 26 12 0 21 21. 11 57 52 27 12 0 51 22 11 58 22 28 12 1 21 23 11 58 52 3 4 11 50 1 11 11 53 3 11 50 26 12 11 53 31 17 11 55 54 29 12 1 50 24 2.19 11 50 51 13 11 53 59 11 51 16 TWILIGHT. DAY OF sets. 4 38 8 1 4 38 9 16 5 28 6 43 Ends P. M. 0 7 H. M. 6 9 21 21 6 14 6 22 21 31 DAYS. Calendar for CHARLESTON, Georgia, Alabama, Louisians, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California. 2222 SUN SUN Moos RISKS. SETS. Z. 48. 21 H. M. 11. M. H. M. 6 44 6 45 6 46 4 54 3 9 4 54 4 20 6 46 6 48 4 54 sets. 4 55 12 34 4 55 1 33 4 56 2 21 4.56 3 29 4 28 4 57 6 57 4 57 5 25 4 58 6 19 6 59 4 58 rises. 7.0 4 59 60 704 596 58 0 5 0 7 56 0 5 1 8 54 2 9 52 1 5 15 1 5 7,2 5 7 2 5 7 2 5 210 50 311,50 3 A, M. 4 12 52 4 1 59 7 7 7 4 54 12 59 454 2 2 Dec. Begins, A. M. Ends, P. M. DAY OF LED 357 WI CAITANY Ritualistic Calendar. COLORS FOR THE ALTAR IN USE IN RITUALISTIC EPISCOPAL CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES. White.-From the First Service (First Vespers) of Christmas Day to the Octave of Epiphany, Inclusive (except on the Feasts of Martyrs); on Maundy Thursday (for the celebration); from the First Service of Easter Day to the Vigil of Pentecost (except on Feasts of Martyrs and Rogation Days); on Trinity Sunday, Conversion of St. Paul, Purification, Annunciation, St. John Baptist, St. Michael, St. Luke, All Saints, Saints who are not Martyrs, and Patron Saints (Transfiguration and Dedication of Church). 5675. Sebat Adar 44 "" Red.-From First Vespers of Pentecost to the First Vespers of Trinity Sunday (which includes Ember Days, Holy Innocents (if on a Sunday), and Feasts of all Martyrs. Violet-From Septuagesima to Maundy Thursday (Easter Eve); Advent Sunday to Christmas Eve; Vigils, Ember Days (except in Whitsun Week), and Rogation Days; Holy Innocents (unless on Sunday). Black, Good Friday and at funerals. Green, -All other days. These regulations as to colors are general. A more minute code changing with each year is published in the church almanacs. Nisan 64 AD. New STYLE. ་་ Iyar J New Moon.... Sivan 18 Lag B'omer..... 1 New Moon...... 6 Pentecost.. Tamuz 1New Moon 44 NEW MOON, FASTS, FEASTS, ETC. .... 1 New Moon..................... ........................ 15 First Day of Passover. 21 Last YEAR. T 17 Fast of Tamuz...... 9 Fast of Ab (Destruction of 1 New Moon.. Holy Daya. •Peculiar to Russia, Rabla II.. ... Jomadi I. Jomadi II. Rajab....... Jewish Calendar, 1915. 7 Annunciation................................................... 11 Holy Pasch (Easter)....... Names of Months. 20 Ascension Day.. 27 Coronation of Emperor⚫ 80 Pentecost.. ...........................mını 31 Holy Ghost.. 1833... Muharram (New Year) Saphar 66 ** Rabia I. Greek Church and Russian Calendar, 1915. A. D. 1915, A. M. 8024. 1915. Jan. "" 1 New Moon 64 64 7 1 " Elul Sebat 20 A dar Aug. 11 Veadar 1) The year 5675 is an ordinary imperfect year of 353 days, and 5676 an embolismic perfect year of 385 days. .. 80 Mar. May 64 June ** July 16 Tisri .. 15 44 28 16 5676. Feb. .. Old Style. Jan 44 2 Hesvan " New 1 July .. .. 8 Sept. • .. 25 Oct. 66 27 Nov. "" .. 29 Dec. 7 1916. 14 Jan. 17 18 ་་ 66 NEW MOON, FASTS, FEASTS, XTC. 1 New Moon (New Year). 10 Day of Atonement (Yom Kip- 44 15 Feast of Tabernacles...... ........... Month Begins. YEAR. 66 25 Dedication of Temple.. 10 Fast of Tebet... Mohammedan Calendar, 1915. 14 Circumcision.... Names of Months. .. Nov. 19, 1914 1333... Ramadan (Month of Absti- " nence) 64 ** ................ 64 Rabia I............. ..... .... Holy Days. Old Style. 12 Peter and Paul (Chief Apostles) June 29 Aug. 6 " Sept. 8 14 Oct. 1 28 First Day of Fast of Theotokos... Nov. 3 Entrance of Theotokos.... 15 44 20 22 Conception of Theotokos............ Dec. 9 7 Nativity (Christmas). Dec. 25 8025. Jan. .. Month Begins. 13 " July 13, 1915 " "B Jan. 9. 150 KIND OF CHOР. Coru.. Wheat. Oats.... Barley.. Corn Corn Seed Planting in the United States. . Rye..... Turnips.. Flax... Hay. IN THE UNITED STATES. NEW ENGLAND. Date of Planting.. Best Soil. 18 tons. Apr. to May, Sept. Sandy or clay loam.. 8 to 12 tons. Cotton Onious. Potatoes. 18 to 12 tons manure, 6 to 8 qts. bush... 5 tons.. 1 Apr. 20 to May 30 Medium loam...... to 1% bush.. Loam... Limestone loam. Oats. Feb. to May 15.... Barley Amount of 6 to 8 tons. 8 tons................... 18 tons........................ 3 tous......................... CENTRAL AND WESTERN STATES. 8 tons. Sandy loam....... 5 to 10 tons.. 8 to 15 tons. MIDDLE STATES. 8 tons. 10 to 18 tons..... 300 to 600 lbs, fer. SOUTHERN STATES. ...... Amount of 8 to 12 qts. 2 to 3 bush... 8 to 20 bush.... 4 to 6 lbs.. ......... 6 to 8 qts.. 16 qts... 6 qts.. 10 bush, cot, seed...8 qts.... 2 bush 8 to 10 tons.. 2 to 3 bush.... 2 bush. 1 to 2 bush. 1 to 2 busk.. 1 to 3 bush... Weeks turity. 2 bush... 2 bush... bush.... 8 tons. 8 to 12 tons. 8 to 15 tons. 1 1 to 2 bush.. 16-18 41-43 16-17 13-16 40-43 8-10 13-14 14-22 10-15 8-15 10-12 15-18 8-10 15-20 8 to 10 bush.. 4 to 9 oz....... Sweet potatoes. Tobacco.. (1) The standard varieties of seed planted in the several sections of the United States are as fol- (2) In Texas the black loam is a good soil for cotton, corn, wheat and most other field crops. 20-30 18-20 oz. to 6 sq. rd.. 43 17 17 43 7-8 14 16-20 16-24 11-15 12-15 17-20 14-20 8-12 18-20 6-8 THE MOON. Of all the secondary planets the earth's satellite is by far the most interesting and important. The moon completes her circuit around the earth in a period whose mean or average length is 27 days 7 hours 43. 2 minutes; but in consequence of her motion in common with the earth around the sun, the mean duration of the lunar month, that is, the time from new moon to new moon, is 29 days 12 hours 44. 05 minutes, which is called the moon's synodical period. If the earth were motionless in space the moon's orbit would be nearly an ellipse, having the earth in one of the foci; hence her distance from the earth varies during the course of a lunar month. Her mean distance from the earth is 238, 850 miles. Her maximum distance, however, may reach 252,830 miles, and the least distance to which she can approach the earth is 221.520 miles. Her diameter is 2, 162 miles, and if we deduct from her distance from the earth the sum of the two radii of the earth and moon, viz., 3,962 and 1,081 miles, respectively, we shall have for the nearest approach of the surHer orbit is a very intricate one, because the earth in moving faces of the two bodies 216,477 miles. around the sun carries the moon along with it; hence the latter is sometimes within and sometimes without the earth's orbit. Its form is that of a serpentine, curve, always concave toward the sun, and inclined to the plane of the earth's orbit at an angle of 50 9', in consequence of which our satellite appears sometimes above and sometimes below the plane of the earth's orbit, through which These points or positions are called nodes, and no two consecutive she passes twice in a revolution. nodes occupy positions diametrically opposite on the lunar orbit. The nodes have a retrograde motion, which causes them to make an entire revolution in 18 years, 218 days, 21 hours, 22 minu'es and 46 seconds. This motion was well known to the ancients, who called it the Saros, aud was made use of by them in roughly predicting eclipses." 01 The moon always presents the same face to us, as is evident from the permanency of the variousmarkings on its surface. This circumstance proves that with respect to the earth she revolves on an axis, and the time of rotation is exactly equal to the time of revolution around the earth. viz., 27.32166 days. The moon's axis is not perpendicular to the plane of her orbit, but deviates therefrom by an angle of about 60 41. In consequence of this fact, and of the inclination of the lunar orbit to that of the ecliptic, the poles of the moon lean alternately to and from the earth. When the north pole leans toward the earth we see somewhat more of the region surrounding it, and somewhat less when it leans the contrary way. This displacement is known by the name of libration in latitude. A Area of Islands. T The moon's surface contains about 14,685,000 square miles, or nearly four times the area of Europe. Her volume is 1-49 and her mass 1-81 that of the earth, and hence her density is about 3-5 that of the earth, or about 3 2-5 that of water. At the Innar surface gravity is only 3-20 of what it is at the earth, and therefore a body which weighs 20 pounds here would weigh only 3 pounds there. The centre of gravity of the earth and moon, or the point about which they both actually revolve in their course around the sun, lies within the earth; it is 1,063 miles below the surface. The attractive force of the moon acting on the water of our oceans is mainly instrumental in raising them into protuberances or tides in such a manner as to give the total mass a spheroidal figure whose principal axis would continually coincide with the line joining the centres of the earth and moon, but in consequence of the resistance which this movement of the water encounters from continents and islands, as well as from the liquid molecules themselves, the tidal wave can never arrive The suddenness with which stars are occulted by at any place until about one hour after the moon has crossed the meridian of the place. The moon has no atmosphere and no water. the moon is regarded as a conclusive proof that a lunar atmosphere does not exist, and the spectroscope furnishes negative evidence of the same character, In remote ages the lunar surface was the theatre of violent volcanic action, being elevated into A profound silence reigus over the cones and ridges exceeding 20,000 feet high, and at other places rent into furrows or depressions of corresponding depth. The lunar volcanoes are now extinct. desolate and rugged surface. It is a dead world, utterly unfit to support animal or vegetable life. ISLANDS. THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. The earth's sensible atmosphere is generally supposed to extend some forty miles in height, probably further, but becoming at only a few miles from the surface of too great a tenuity to support life. The condition and motions of this aerial ocean play a most important part in the determination of climate, modifying, by absorbing, the otherwise intense heat of the sun, and, when laden with clouds, hindering the earth from radiating its acquired heat into space. -Whitaker. Square AREA OF ISLANDS. Square ISLANDS. EDSE 20 30 Melylle Land. 48,400 300 Jamaica. 1,376 Luzon. New Hebrides. 3,600 40,000 14,000 827,300 88,600 ISLANDS. 262 Guam.. 236,000 Hawallan. 25,000 Hayti. Square ISLANDS. Prince of Wales Sakhalin. Square 120 710 20,000 36,290 Sietly. 60 South (N. Z.).. (Samoa). Vancouver. 2.134 W. Spitzbergen 614 15,000 3.600 970 29.100 1,100 9,800 58,525 17,800 162,000 26,200 18,500 900 1,750 55 18,000 15,260 |