Cime.

All the calculations in the American Almanac are based upon mean or clock time unless otherwise stated. The sun's rising and setting are for the upper limb, corrected for parallax and refraction. In the case of the moon no correction is needed, as in the sun, for "parallax and refraction;" with her, they are of an opposite nature and just balance each other. The figures given, therefore, are for the moon's centre on a true horizon, such as the ocean or a large plain affords.

The calculation in each of the geographical divisions of each calendar page will apply with sufficient accuracy to all places in the contiguous North American zones indicated by the headings of the divisions. This statement is based on the fact that in the same latitude, or in the same line running due east and west, the sun and moon rise and set at almost the same moment of local or mean time, the difference in extremes being so slight as to be of no importance for ordinary purposes, except in the case of the moon's rising, southing and setting, when 6 m. for Pacific Coast points and 3 m. for Mississippi River Valley region, including Chicago, etc., must be added, or 2m. for each hour of longitude.

The column, "Shadow at Noon Mark." is given to aid those who have "noon marks" or meridian lines to ascertain the correct time. It will not do to suppose that the sun arrives at the noon mark at 12 o'clock. Such is really the case only four times in a year-April 15, June 15, September 1 and December 24-and the error may amount to as much as 16 minutes.

The heavy dotted line shows the arbitrary divisions of time in the United States. The plus and minus marks on either side of the meridian lines show whether it is necessary to add to or substract from the standard time of points east or west of these lines, to arrive at actual, or Greenwich time. See table on Page 3.

STANDARD TIME.

For the convenience of the railroads and business in general, a standard of time was established by mutual agreement in 1883, and it is by this method of calculation that trains are now run and local time is regulated. In accordance with this system the United States, extending from 65° to 125° west longitude. is divided into four time sections, each of 15° of longitude, exactly equivalent to one hour (7 1-20 or 30 m. on each side of a meridian), commencing with the 75th meridian. The first or eastern section includes all territory between the Atlatic Coast and an irregular line drawn from Buffalo to Charleston, S. C.. the latter city being its southernmost point. The second or central section includes all the territory between this eastern line and another irregular line extending from Bismarck, N. D., to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The third or mountain section includes all the territory between the last-named line and nearly the western borders of Idaho, Utah and Arizona. The fourth or Pacific section includes all the territory of the United States between the boundary of the mountain section and the Pacific Coast. Inside of each of these sections Standard time is uniform, and the time of each section differs from that next to it by exactly one hour. The following is the table of times based upon the meridian used by the United States and Canada:

It is obvious that to express the time of rising and setting of the sun and moon in Standard time would limit the usefulness of such data to the single point, or place, for which it was computed, while in mean time it is practically correct for places as widely separated as the width of the continent, as already explained, and persons having the mean time may easily ascertain the correct Standard time of any event by making use of the following table:

Eclipses of 1903 and Cheir History.

There will be four eclipses this year, two each of the sun and moon, as follows:

1. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, March 29. The annular phase will only be visible through Central and Northern Asia and the Arctic regions. The partial phase will be visible in the Philippine Islands and Alaska and partially visible on the Pacific Coast of North America, between the 43d and 61st parallels of latitude. Near Cape Blanco, Oregon, the eclipse will begin at sunset, and from that point to Vancouver Island a very small part of the eclipse will be visible on the sun's northern limb just before sunset. The Last preceding return of this eclipse was on March 16, 1885, when the path of the annual phase extended across North America, and a fine partial eclipse was visible throughout the United States, and its next recurrence will be on April 17, 1921, when it will be visible in the Arctic Ocean and Northern Europe. II. A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, April 11. The beginning of this eclipse will be visible in Europe, Africa, Western Asia and Eastern South America, and the end in Eastern United States, where the Moon will rise with the eclipse upon it, and in Africa and Europe. The size of the eclipse will be 11.68 digits, the apparent diameter of the Moon being taken as 12 digits. Hence, when greatest, it will be nearly total, as will be seen by the figure below:

The greatest eclipse will occur when the Moon in its passage through the earth's shadow from west to east reaches the point b, and her last contact with the shadow, will take place at c. This eclipse will be visible as follows:

Middle or greatest eclipse..
Moon leaves dark shadow or
umbra

Inter

Cent. East. Col. St'd St'd St'd Time. Time. Time. P. M. P. M. P. M. 8:13

7:13

7:52 8:52 9:52

Moon leaves light shadow or
penumbra
9:00 10:00 11:00
During the 1h. and 8m. while the Moon re-
mains in the penumbra after last contact, she
will appear nearly as bright as usual.

The last preceding return was on March 30, 1885, when it was partial also, but smaller than at this time. The next recurrence will be on April 21, 1921, when it will be larger and total and visible in North and South America.

III. A Total Eclipse of the Sun, September 21. visible in South Africa, Indian Ocean and Australia. The last preceding recurrence of this eclipse was on September 8, 1885, when it was total also, and seen in the Southern Pacific, but further east than now. In 1921, September 30, it will recur and be visible in South America.

IV. A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, October 5-6. The beginning will be visible in Africa and the Pacific Ocean, and the ending in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Pacific Ocean. The eclipse begins with the setting

of the Moon on the Pacific coast, and will be visible, therefore, only in our Pacific possessions. The size will be 10.4 digits, the Moon's apparent diameter being taken as 12 digits, or 0.868, the Moon's diameter being taken as unity (1.00). The eclipse will be upon the Moon's northern limb as it passes through the southern portion of the earth's shadow, as shown in the cut annexed.

- Phase when largest.
d-Point of last contact.

b-Phase at 3:57 a. m., Hawailan standard time. The figure shows the eclipse at b. as it will appear at 3:57 a. m., Hawaiian standard time; greatest eclipse at c. first contact at a, and last at d. At Manila, P. I., the first contact occurs at 9:44 p. m.. the middle at 11:21 p. m., and the last contact with the dark shadow or umbra at 0:58 a. m. of the 6th. The last preceding recurrence of this eclipse was September 23, 1885, when it was smaller and visible throughout the United States. The next recurrence will be on October 16, 1921, when it will be nearly total and visible in North and South America, the moon rising eclipsed.

Venus will be occulted by the moon, December 14, visible in Southern States.
Mars will be occulted by the moon, July 1, visible in Southern States.

Legal Holidays in the United States.

Jan. 1.-New Year's Day. In all States except Colo., Sept. 3.-Labor Day. In North Carolina.
Mass., N. H.

Jan. 8.-Anniversary Battle New Orleans. In Lou-
isiana.

Jan. 19. Gen. Robert E. Lee's Birthday. In Ala.,
Fla., Ga., N. C., S. C., Va.

Feb. 2.*--Arbor Day. In Arizona.

Ill.,

Feb. 12.*-Lincoln's Birthday. In Conn.. Del..
Minn., N. J., N. Y., N. D., Penna., Wash., Wyo.
Feb. 17. Election Day. In Penna.

Feb. 22. Washington's Birthday. In all States ex-
cept Colo., Ind. Ter.. Miss.. N. M.

March 2.-Anniversary Texan Independence. In Texas.
March 4.-Firemen's Anniversary. In New Orleans, La.
March 4. Inauguration Day (every four years).
Washington, D. C.

April 1.-State Election Day. In Rhode Island.
April 15.-Arbor Day.

In Utah.

April 19.-Patriots' Day. In Massachusetts.

In

Sept. 7.-Labor Day. In Ala.. Calif., Colo., Conn.,
Del., D. C., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind.. Ia.. Kan., Me.,
Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Mont.. Mo., Neb., N. H.,
N. J., N. Y., 0., Ore., Pean., R. I., S. C., S. D.,
Tenn., Tex.. Utah, Va., Wash.. W. Va.
Sept. 9.-Admission Day.

In Calif.

Sept 12.--Defenders' Day. In Baltimore, Md.
Oct. 31.-Admission Day. Nevada.

Nov. 3.*-Election Day. In Ariz.. Calif., Fla., Idaho,
Ind., Kan., Md., Minn., Mo., Mont., Nev., N. H.,
N. J., N. Y., N. D., Okla.. Ore., Penn., R. I.. S.
C., S. D., Tenn.. Tex., Wash., W. Va., Wis., Wyo.
Nov. 21.-Labor Day. In Louisiana.
Nov. 23. -Repudiation Day. In Frederick Co.. Md.
Nov. 26.* Thanksgiving Day. Recognized all States.
Dec. 25.--Christmas. In all States except Colorado.
Shrove Tuesday or Mardi-Gras is a legal holiday in
Alabama and New Orleans.

April 21.-Anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto. Good Friday is a holiday in Alabama. Louisiana,

In Texas.

April 26.-Memorial Day. In Ala.. Fla., Ga.
May 8. *-Memorial Day. Tennessee.
May 10.-Memorial Day. In N. C.. S. C.
May 20.-Anniversary of the Signing of the Meck-
lenberg Declaration of Independence. In N. C.
May 30. Decoration Day. In all States except Ala.,
Ark., Col., Fla., Ga., Idaho, La., Nev., N. Mex..
N. C., S. C., Texas.

June 3.-Jefferson Davis's Birthday. In Ala., Fla.,
Ga.. S. C.

June 17.-Bunker Hill Day.

Boston.

July 4.-Independence Day. In all States except

Colorado.

July 24.-Pioneers' Day. In Utah.

Aug.. 6. -Election Day. In Tenn.

Aug. 16.-Bennington Battle Day. In Vermont.

*These dates are for 1903.

Maryland. Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
All Saints' Day is a holiday in Louisiana.

In some States, like Colorado, there are no statutes
regulating holidays, but the majority are observed.
Every Saturday after 12 o'clock noon is a legal holl-
New
day in
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia and the City of
New Orleans, and in Newcastle County, Delaware.
except in St. George's Hundred: in Louisiana and
Missouri in cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants;
in Ohio in cities of 50,000 or more inhabitants; and
June 1 to August 31 in Denver, Col. In the Dis-
trict of Columbia for all purposes respecting the
presentation for payment or acceptance or the pro-
testing of all commercial paper whatsoever. In
Connecticut, Maine and West Virginia banks close
at 12 noon on Saturdays. In North Carolina is ob-
served in certain sections.

1

1183. Fall of Troy.

Great Events in the World's History.

[A. D.

1314. Union of France and Navarre. 1004. First Temple at Jerusalem dedi-1415. France invaded and the battle] cated by Solomon.

$78. Carthage founded by Dido,

of Agincourt.

1431. Joan of Arc burnt (May 30).

A. D.

1796. Vaccination discovered by Jen

ner.

1801. Union formed of Great Britain and Ireland.

776. Beginning of the Olympic era. 1453, Constantinople captured by the 1804. Bonaparte became Emperor of 753. Rome founded by Romulus.

Turks.

388. Jerusalem captured by Nebu-1455. Beginning of the War of the 1805. chadnezzar.

538. Babylon taken by Cyrus.

536. Restoration of the Jews under) Cyrus.

Roses

France.

Battle of Trafalgar. 1805. Battle of Austerlitz.

1462. The Bible first printed at 1807.

1471.

509. Expulsion of Tarquinius from Rome.

1485.

1517.

332 Alexander the Great conquered 1492.
Egypt and founded Alexan-
dría.
264. Beginning of the first Punic
war (lasting 23 years).
219. Conquest of Spain by Hanni-

bal.

218. Beginning of the second Punic war (lasting 17 years).

206. Scipio expelled the Carthaginians from Spain.

Mentz.

First printing press set up by 1809.
William Caxton.

End of the War of the Roses. 1812.
in which over 100,000 men
were killed, by the defeat and 1812.
death of Richard III. af
Bosworth.

The first steamboat voyage by
Robert Fulton.

Finland ceded to Russia by
Sweden.

War declared between Great Britain and the United States. Invasion of Russia by Napoleon and the burning of Moscow. 1815. Battle of Waterloo (June 18).

Discovery of America by Christo
pher Columbus.
Beginning of the Reformation 1835.
in Germany.
Cortez began his
Mexico.

1828. First passenger railroad estab-
lished in the United States.
Invention of the telegraph by
Prof. F. B. Morse.
Accession of Queen Victoria to
the throne of England.
The sewing machine perfected
by Elias Howe.

1846.

Repeal of the British Corn

laws.

1519. conquest of 1837. 1521. Sweden delivered from Den- 1846. mark by Gustavus Vasa. 1534. Henry VIII. abolished the 1846. Pope's authority in England. 1535. The first English Bible printed. Beginning of the war between 183. Hannibal exiled and took poison 1539. Closing of the monasteries in the United States and Mexico. when about to be surrendered England. 1851, Gold discovered in Australia. to the Romans. 1558. Queen Elizabeth crowned. 1852. Louis Napoleon became Em 113. Defeat of the Romans by the 1565, Beginning of the Netherlands peror of France. Teutons and Cymry at Nor1853. Beginning of the Crimean War. Jia. 1572. The St. Bartholomew massacre 1857. The great mutiny in India. (Aug. 24) in France, in which 1861. The Russian Berfs emancipated. 70.000 persons were slain. 1588. Defeat of the Spanish Armada 1861-1865. Civil war in the United by the English fleet.

55. Conquest of Britain by Caesar. 44. Julius Caesar killed (March 15). 4. Birth of Jesus Christ.

A. D.

29. Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. 64. Nero burned Rome and charged the Christians with the crime. 70. Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus.

79. Pompeii destroyed.

revolt.

States.

1603. Union formed between England 1864. The Geneva Convention held,
and Scotland (March 24).
adopting a code for civilized
1616. Death of Shakespeare (April
warfare,

23).
1618. Beginning of the Thirty Years
War in Germany.

313. Conversion of Constantine to 1640. Cromwell's Long Parliament asChristianity.

325. Constantine convoked the Coun- 1649.

cil of Nice.

376. Russia invaded by the Huns. 1653. 410. Abandonment of Britain by the

Romans.

sembled.

Charles I. of England be-
headed (Jan. 30).

Oliver Cromwell proclaimed Pro-
tector of England.

1664. The great plague of London.

593 Printing invented by the Chi-1666. The great fire in London.
1679. Habeas Corpus act passed in 1887.
England.

mese.

Assassination of Czar Alexander II. by a bomb (March 13). British occupation of Egypt. given by Baron $10,000,000 698 Carthage captured and destroyed Hirsch for the establishment by Hassan the Saracen chief 1704. Gibraltar captured by the Engof Jewish schools in Russia. 800. Charlemagne crowned Emperor lish. 1889. Brazil became a republic. of the West by the Pope 1756, Beginning of the Seven Years 1894. Chinese Japanese war began. (Dec. 25). War in France. 1897. The Turkish-Greek war. 827. Egbert proclaimed first King of 1756. Black Hole suffocation in Cal- 1899. Peace conference between England.

$96. The Germans under Arnold cap- 1759.

ture Rome.

cutta.

Canada taken from the French 1899.
by England.

996. Paris made capital of France. 1773. Steam engine perfected by
1066. Norman conquest of England.
1996. Crusades
Land.
1099. Jerusalem captured by the

began to the

Crusaders

The

1900.

1793. The Cotton Gin invented by
Eli Whitney.

1901.

1172. Conquest of Ireland by England.

1215, Magna Charta granted by King 1796. John, June 15.

1902.

1795. Dismemberment of Poland.
Torture of criminals abolished
by Catherine in Russia,
Execution of Louis XVI. of
France (Jan. 21), and of 1902.
Queen Marie Antoinette (Oct.
16).

1265. First regular Parliament met 1793. in England.

1272. Wales subdued and united to

England,

Assassination of King Humbert of Italy.

Death of Queen Victoria and the accession of King Edward VII. of England.

Peace established in South Africa by Great Britain. Tomas Estrada Palma inaugurated as first President of the Cuban Republic.

Memorable Events in the History of the United States.

20. Cessation of hostilities agreed upon between June 17. Washington appointed Commander-in-Chief of

June
June

6. Memphis, Tenn., captured, 1862.
14. Venezuela boundary treaty between
Britain ratified by Congress, 1897.
17. Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775,

Great

Jan.

19. Gen. Robert E. Lee born, 1807.

Jan.

American forces, 1776

United and Great Britain, 1783.

June

14. Hawaii annexation treaty concluded, 1893. June
15. Battleship Maine blown up in Havana har-
bor, 1898.

Feb. 22-23. Battle of Buena Vista, 1847.

June

19. Confederate warship Alabama sunk by the Kearsarge, 1864.

22. First United States troops landed in Cuba, 1898.

28. Congress selected Washington, D. C., as capital, 1790.

July 1-3. Battle of Gettysburg, 1863,

Feb. 24. Discovery of gold in California by James W. July
Marshall, 1848.

2. President Garfield shot by Guiteau, 1881. 3. Spanish fleet destroyed at Santiago, 1898.

4. Declaration of Independence signed, 1776. 11. Hamilton-Burr del, 1804.

July

Feb. 25. National Bank Act passed, 1863.
March 2. Texas annexed, 1845.

July

July

March 5. Boston massacre, 1770.

July

16. Surrender of Santiago, 1898,

March 9. Monitor and Merrimac fight

March6-8. Battle of the Wilderness, 1864.

Roads, 1862.

March 15. Andrew Jackson born, 1767.

March 17. Boston evacuated by British, 1776,

Ang.
Aug.

March 22. Stamp Act passed, 1765.

April 12, Bombardment of Fort Sumter began, 1861. Sept.
April 13, Thonias Jefferson born, 1743.
April 14. Assassination of President Lincoln by John
Wilkes Booth, 1865.

April 15. President Lincoln issued first call for volun-
teers, 1861.

April 18. Paul Revere's ride, 1775.
April 19. Battle of Lexington and Concord, 1775,
April 21. Spain severed diplomatic relations with United
States, 1898.

April 23. Mexicans crossed the Rio Grande, beginning
Mexican War, 1846.

April 27. Matanzas, Cuba, shelled by U. S. warships,
1898.
April 28. New Orleans evacuated by Confederates, 1862,
April 30. Washington inaugurated first President, 1789.
May
1. Spanish fleet at Manila destroyed by Admiral
Dewey, 1898.

3. Columbus sails from Palos, 1492,
11. Robert Fulton makes his first trip up the
Hudson with his steamboat, 1807

13. Surrender of Manila Lo the United States
forces, 1898.

16. Battle of Bennington, Vt., 1777.

26.

Yacht America won the international yacht race at Cowes, Eng., 1851.

First patents issued by the United States Government, 1791.

27. Battle of Long Island. 1776.

2, Atlanta, Ga., captured by General Sherman,
1864.

Sept.
6. President McKinley shot by Leon Czolgosz at
the Buffalo Exposition, 1901.
Sept. 10. Perry's victory on Lake Erie, 1813.
Sept. 11. Henry Hudson entered New York on the Half
Moon, 1609.
Sept. 11. Battle of Brandywine, 1777.
Sept. 14. President McKinley died at Buffalo, 1901.
Sept. 14. City of Mexico captured by United States
Army, 1847.
Sept. 15. Capture of Harper's Ferry, Va., by Stonewall
Jackson, 1862.

Sept. 17. Battle of Antietam, 1862.
Sept. 18. Cornerstone of the Capitol at Washington, D.
C., laid, 1793.

Sept. 19. Washington issues his farewell address, 1796.
Sep. 19-20. Battle of Chickamauga, 1863.
Sept. 22. Nathan Hale hanged by Gen. Howe, 1777.
Sept. 25. First newspaper printed in the United States
at Boston, 1690.

Sept. 26. Philadelphia occupied by Gen, Howe, 1777.
Oct. 4. Battle of Germantown, 1777.
Oct. 8-11. Great fire at Chicago, 1871.
Oct. 12. Columbus discovered America, 1492.

18. John Brown captured at Harper's Ferry, 1859,
19. Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, 1781.
24. William Penn landed at Newcastle, 1682.
11. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers from the May-
flower at Provincetown, 1620.

May

May

10. Pacific Railroad completed, 1869.

14. Death of George Washington, 1799.
Dec. 20. South Carolina seceded, 1860.
Dec. 26. Battle of Trenton, 1776.

3. Hobson sunk the Merrimac in the harbor of Dec. 16. Boston "Tea Party," 1773.
Santiago, 1898.

5. Surrender of Fort Cornwallis, 1781.

Around the World in Sixty Days.

Many years have passed since Jules Verne carried Mr. Phineas Fogg around the world in eighty days, and since that time so many improvements have been made in methods of transportation that the once-wonderful feat of the imaginary Mr. Fogg now seems like an extremely commonplace achievement. To-day the man who could not circumnavigate the globe in less than eighty days would be regarded as a very poor traveller. George Francis Train, in 1890, established a record of 67 days, 13 hours. 3 minutes and 3 seconds, not counting one day which he spent in New York; but, in 1901, Charles C. Fitzmorris, who represented Hearst's Chicago American, set a record for globe-girdlers by winning the "Round the World Race" in 60 days, 13 hours, 29 minutes and 42 4-5 seconds.

There were three contestants in this "Round the World Race," which was conducted by the three Hearst newspapers. The winner, Fitzmorris, represented the Chicago American and the schoolboys of Chicago: Louis St. Clair Eunson, the New York Journal, and the schoolboys of New York, and William C. Crittenden, the Examiner and the schoolboys of San Francisco, and while each lad spared no effort to be first to return to the United States. Fitzinorris completed his mission far ahead of his closest competitor. The itinerary of this world-record feat was as follows: