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CALENDAR -11
JEWISH CALENDAR.
5685. 1924.
New Year, Rosh Hashanah ........... 1st day Tishri.....Monday, Sept. 29
Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.....10th day Tishri...Wednesday, Oct. 8
Feast of Tabernacles, Succoth.......15th day Tishri.... Monday, Oct. 13
Eighth Day of Tabernacles .......... 22d day Tishri......Monday, Oct. 20
Rejoicing of the Law ...............23d day Tishri.....Tuesday, Oct. 21
New Moon...........................1st day Heshvan.Wednesday, Oct. 29
New Moon.. .................1.........st day Kislev.......Friday, Nov. 28
Feast of Dedication, Chanuka........25th day Kislev....Monday, Dec. 22
New Moon ..........................1st day Tebeth......Sunday, Dec. 28
1925.
Fast of Tebeth .....................17th day Tebeth.....Tuesday, Jan. 6
New Moon ...........................1st day Shebat......Monday, Jan. 26
New Moon.................................1st day Adar....Wednesday, Feb. 25
Feast of Lots, Purim ...............14th day Adar...Tuesday, March 10
New Moon ..........................1st day Nissan..Thursday, March 26
Passover, Pesach, 1st Day...........15th day Nissan...Thursday, April 9
Passover, Pesach, 7th Day...........21st day Nissan.Wednesday, April 15
New Moon.......................1st day Iyar......Saturday, April 25
New Moon.. .....................1st day Sivan.......Sunday, May 24
Feast of Weeks, Shabuoth........... 6th day Sivan........Friday, May 29
New Moon. ...................... 1st day Tammuz...Tuesday, J', .e !3
New Moon ..........................1st day Ab......Wednesday, uly 22
Fast of Ab .....................9th day,Ab.......Thursday, July 30
New Moon ........................1st day Ellul........Friday, Aug. 21
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New Year, Rosh Hashanah .......... 1st day Tishri.....Saturday, Sept. 19
Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur......10th day Tishri... .Monday, Sept. 28
Feast of Tabernacles, Succoth........ 15th f1ay Tishri..... Saturday, Oct. 3
Eighth Day of TabernacLes. ......... 2d day Tishri..... Saturday, Oct. 10
Rejoicing of the Law.............23d day Tishri....... Sunday, Oct. 11
New Moon .........................1st day Heshvan....Monday, Oct. 19
New Moon ..........................1st day Kislev.. Wednesday, Nov. 18
Feast of Dedication, Chanuka.......25th day Kislev...Saturday, Dec. 12
New Moon.......................1st day Tebeth......Friday, Dec. 18
Fast of Tebeth.........'......... 7th day Tebeth..... Sunday, Dec. 27ECLIPSES.
In the year 1925 there will be
four eclipses, two of the sun and
two of the moon.
1. Jan. 24 there will be a total
eclipse of the sun, visible in the
northeastern part of the United
States. The path of total eclipse
will begin with sunrise in Mani-
toba, Canada, and will pass over the
central part of the Great Lakes and
enter the Atlantic Ocean just north
of New York City, and end at sunset
in the North Atlantic. The maxi-
mum time during which the eclipse
is total will be 2 minutes 31.8 sec-
.onds.
This eclipse will be partial in
Texas and will occur at sunrise.
It is of interest to note that this
will be the last total eclipse of the
sun that will be visible in the
United States for forty-five years.
2. Feb. 8-9 -there will be a par-
tial eclipse of the moon, visible in
the eastern part of the United
States.
3. July 20-21 there will be an
annular eclipse of the sun, invisible
in the United States. The path of
this eclipse will lie largely in the
South Pacific Ocean.
4. Aug. 4 there will be a partial
eclipse of the moon, visible in the
western part of the United States,
from 4:27 to 5:52 a. m., Central time.ORIGIN OF THE CALENDAR.
A curious point in our modern
calendar is the irregularity in the
number of days ih the different
months. We could hardly remem-
ber the right lengths if it were not
for the familiar rhyme, "Thirty days
hath September." In the oldest Ro-
man calendars the months were of
thirty or twenty-nine days each.
But when Julius Cesar reformed the
calendar of Numa Pompilius he
gave them alternating thirty-one
and thirty, beginning with January.
February was an exception, and
was given twenty-nine in ordinary
and thirty in leap years. After
Cesar's death the month Quintilis
was renamed Julius in his honor.
Some time later Augustus chose the
following month, Sextieis, as his
own, and called it Augustus. But it
had only thirty days, and it was not
to be endured that Augustus should
be inferior to Julius. So the Em-
peror took one day from February,
leaving it -only twenty-eight, and
gave it to Augustus. This disturbed
Cesar's orderly arrangements, and
three months of thirty-one days,
viz., July, August and September,
came together. The extra day of
the last was, therefore, given to
October, and a day taken from No-
vember wjs given to December.
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