NOTES ON THE YEAR 1888.

The more we live, more brief appear our life's succeeding stages;

A day to childhood seems a year, and years like passing ages. - Campbell.

BISSEXTILE OF LEAP YEAR, 366 days. Year for Presidential Election. 112-113 of the Independence of the United States of America (July 4).

6601 of the Julian Period.

7396-97 of the Byzantine Era (September 1).

5648-49 of the Jewish Era (September 19, sunset).

2641 from the foundation of Rome (according to Varro)..

2548 of the Japanese Era, and to the 215th year of the period entitled "Meijii." 1604 of the Era of Diocletian.

1306 of the Mohammedan Era, or the Era of the Hegira (September 30).

258 since the settlement of Cambridge, Mass.

51-52 of the reign of Queen Victoria of England (June 20).

Eclipses.

There will be five eclipses this year, three of the Sun, and two of the Moon:

1. Total Eclipse of the Moon, January 28, visible in New England, as follows: Eclipse begins, 5.41 p.m.; middle of eclipse, 6.31 p.m.; eclipse ends, 7.20 p.m., standard time.

2. Partial Eclipse of the Sun, February 11, invisible in the United States.

3. Partial Eclipse of the Sun, July 9, invisible in the United States.

4. Total Eclipse of the Moon, July 22 and 23, visible in the United States, Cambridge, begins 12.04 a.m.; middle of eclipse 12.53 a.m.; ends 1.47 a.m. 5. Partial Eclipse of the Sun, invisible in United States.,

Winter begins 1887, December 21, 10.16 p.m., and lasts 89 days, 1h. 6m.

217

Spring

66

1888, March 19, II.22

66

66

66

92

20h. 3m.

Summer

66

June 20,

7.25

94

2h. 53m.

September 22, 10.18

18 h. 6m.

66

December 21, 4.24 66

Tropical Year, 366 days, 18h. 8m.

LEGAL HOLIDAYS. - Washington's Birthday; Fast Day; Memorial Day; Independence; 1st Monday in September; Thanksgiving Day; and Christmas. If these days fall on Sunday, Monday will be the holiday.

Quaere.

Professor Grimmer is out of his reckoning somewhat. The "Star of Bethlehem failed to make its appearance as predicted. Probably the " electrical conditions" will not be improved yet because of the delay.

Circumcision. N. Y. Day. Union flag raised on Prospect Hill

[1776.

Brighton annexed to Boston 1874. Battle of Prince-
ton 1777.

Pilgrim Congregational Church dedicated 1872.
Legislature meets.

Gen. Wolf b. 1727.

7 14 4 28 24

Capt J. P. Richardson issued his call for a Militia
Company 1861.

Epiphany.

Joan of Arc b. 1410.

quarter 6.42 a.m. W.

Last

Gen Putnam b. 1718. Millard Fillmore b. 1800.
Gustave Dore b. 1832.

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Napoleon III d. 1873.

Battle of New Orleans 1815.
Galileo d. 1642.

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Tyler d. 1862.

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ton m. 1759.

Gustave Dore d. 1883.

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D. Webster b. 1782. Lord Lytton (Bulwer) d. 1873.

Gen. Lee b. 1807. Copernicus b. 1473.

David Garrick d. 1779. John Howard d. 1790.
First quarter 11.49 p.m. W.

E. A. Sothern d. 1881. Medfield burned by King
Philip 1676. D. A. Wasson d. 1887.

Epiphany 3.

First Baptist Church burned 1856.

Harvard Hall burned with apparatus and books 1764.

Conv. S. Paul, Mass. Gen. Hospital inc.
1811. Burns b. 1759.
Michigan admitted into the Union 1837. Sir Jos.
Whitworth, engineer, d. 1887.

Audubon d. 1851. Mozart b. 1756.

Peter the Great d. 1725. Capitulation of Paris 1871.
Full moon 6.19 p.m. E.

16 Septuagesima.

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Fire in Boston jail 1769.

Charles I. beheaded 1649.

Kansas admitted into the

Union 1861. George

[III. d. 1820.

S. Peter's Episcopal Church (1st building) consecrated 1844. Ben Johnson b. 1574.

First perman. church founded by Rev. T. Shepard 1636. G. Cruikshank d. 1878.

Candlemas. Rich

Purification B. V. H. Dana d. 1879.

Baptist Church, Central square, burned 1881. Hor-
ace Greeley b. 1811. Mendelssohn b. 1809.
John Rogers burned 1555. Last quarter, 2.26 p.m. W.
Thomas Carlyle d. 1881. Arr.

Sexagesima. of the Lion with provis. 1631.

Prince Arthur visits Boston 1870. Charles II. d.
1685.

Five Cent fare restored on Camb. R.R. '87. Charles
Dickens b. 1812. Pope Pius IX. d. 1878.

1st Baptist Society incor. 1819. Mary Queen of
Scots beheaded 1587.

Great strike on Cambridge R. R. 1887. Wm. H.
Harrison b. 1773. Gen. Hancock, d. 1886.
Queen Victoria m. 1840.

2d Society of Universalists incorporated 1823. Mrs.
Henry Wood d. 1887. New Moon, 6.52 p.m. W.
Lincoln b. 1809. Peter

Quinquagesima. Cooper b. 1791.

Captain Cook killed 1779. Talleyrand b. 1754.

S. Valentine.

Shrove Tuesday. Hancock b. 1824.
Ash Wednesday. blown down 1876.

Old elm on Bos. Com.

2d Provincial Congress met in 1st Church and
adjourned to Concord 1775.

Columbia, South Carolina, burned 1865. Michael
Angelo d. 1563.

J. B. Gough d. 1886. Charlotte Cushman d. 1876.
Martin Luther d. 1546. Lightening storm 1887.
Lent 1.
First National Thanksgiving 1795.
First quarter, 8.59 p.m. W.
Burning of Stamp Papers 1766. Voltaire b. 1694.
John Q. Adams d. 1848. Cardinal Newman b.

1801.

Washington's Birthday. b. 1732.

John Keats d. 1821. Sir Joshua Reynolds d. 1792.
S. Matthias. Brighton inc. 1837. Robert

Fulton d. 1815.
Mass. Gen. Hospital incorporated 18:1. Rev. Geo.
Otis, A. M., d. 1828.
Lent 2.

Thomas Moore d. 1852. Victor Hugo
b. 1802.

Washington forbids card-playing in the army 1776.
Longfellow b. 1807. Full moon, 6.58 a.m. W.
Lamartine d. 1869. Montaigne b. 1583.

J. Landseer, eng. d. 1852. Rossini b. 1792.

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S. David. U. S. Grant appointed Lt. Col. 1864.
Dana Library made free 1874.

Boston bomb. from Lechmere Point, etc. 1776. Leo
XIII b. 1810.

3d Congregational Society (Unitarian) organized
1828.
J. Adams innaug. President 1797.
Lent
3. Last quarter 10.26 p.m. E.
Boston Massacre 1770. James Madison b. 1751.

Boundary estab. between Newtowne and Charlestown
1632.

Great

North-ave. M. E. Society organized 1868.
Strike Jay Gould's S. W. R. R. 1886.
Emily E. Parsons b. 1824. First U. S. Congress 1789.
Millard Fillmore d. 1874. Dr. Hoppin d. 1886.
Jeff. Davis elected President of Confederacy 1861.

Benjamin West d. 1820. Prince of Wales m. 1863.
Mid Lent. Refreshment, First

5 47 29 Lent 4. London daily paper issued 1702.

Election of first fence-viewers in Cambridge 1649.
New Moon 11 21 a.m. E.

Pocahontas d. 1617. Alexander II assassinated 1881.

Dr. A. Flint d. 1886.

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accident 1887.

Archbishop Trench d. 1886. Crimean war declared 1854. Raphael b. 1483.

5 31 6 8 17 Maundy. John Tyler b. 1790. John Keble

d. 1866.

Good Friday. Church org. 1842.

2d. Evangelical Cong.

Easter Eve. John G. Saxe d. 1887.

Charlotte Bronte d. 1855.

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