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February, 1877. 28 Days THE LIBRARIES Bequest of Frederic Bancroft 1860-1945 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS. P X ''I 0 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by FRANK QUEEN, in the O Librarian of Congress, at Washington. jiJ THE NEW TOEK OLIPPliiK CALENDAR FOR 1877. M T W f M w M W fT F JANT. 1 2 3 4 5 6 HAY. 2 3 4 5 SEPT. 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 6 9 10 11 12 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 2425 26 16 17 18 19 2021 22 28 29 3031 27 28 29 3031 23 2425 26 2728 29 30 FEB. 1 2 3 JUNE. 1 2 OCT, 1 2 3 4 5 6 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 i 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 271 25 26 27 28 24 25 26 27 2829 30 28 29 30 31 MARCH 1 2 3 JOLY. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NOV. 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 j 11 12 13 1415 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 2728 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 DEC. APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AUG. 1 2 3 4 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 9 10 11 12 13 14 1511 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 [i 22 23 2425 2627 28 19 20 21 22 23|24 25 23 2425 26 27 28 29'I 29 30 26 27 28 29 3031 30 31 CONTENTS OF CLIPPER ALMANAC. ILLUSTRATIONS, Page. Non-inflammable Fabrics .............<..< .Page Frontispiece 1 Nutriment in Various Articles of Food The Mill of Devers.. 17 Old Year, The—Poem The Course of True Love 20 Postage, Rates of, etc The Dancing Girls 23 Passion-Driven, A Romance of an Artist's Model The Mad Poet's Monument in Greenwood 27 Pilots' Monument in Greenwood, The The Chase in Old Gaul .28 Population and Expenditure per Head of Different Coun­ The Raw Material—" My Only Comic Song" 30 tries. The Dog of Montargis 33 RACING CALENDAR.—Winners of the Derby since 1822, Our Art Studies—No. 1, Music 36 Oxford and Cambridge Eight-oared Boat Race since No. 2, Tragedy. No. 3, Comedy. 37 1829, English Championship for Professional Oars­ The Pilot's Monument in Greenwood 45 men The Infant Prodigy 50 Religious Denominations Falstaff Reduced 52 Railways, Statistics of ASTRONOMICAL.—Calculations of Eclipses, the Four Sea­ Sporting Chronology sons, Morning and Evening Stars, Chronological Statistics of Population Cycles, Movable Festivals, etc., Planets Brightest.. 2 Simple Mode of Computing Interest, A Apparent and Mean Time, Rise and Fall of Tide... 3 Sovereigns of Europe Area of United States and Territories 49 Sovereigns of Scotland - Burial of Sir John Moore, and Parody on—Poems 21 Seasons in Australia 7.. Baseball—The Season of 1876 41 Theophilus Brown. A Legend of Printing-house Square CALENDARS , ..4-15 —Poem Calendar, Explanation of .'. .".'.*..'.*.!.!! 1! i !'.!*.'..!. 3 Theatrical Chronology '• Chronologists* Theories of Date of Creation 16 Tumblety's Band. A Reminiscence of the Early Days of Calendar for All Time cover 3 Minstrelsy ' Callboy's Treat, The 21 Useful Rules for the Barometer : Crime of a Clown, The; An Advance Agent's Story 18 Weights and Measures, Table of. .... Chase in Old Gaul, The 28 Dancing Girls. The—Poem. 23 ADVERTISEMENTS, Destruction of Places of Amusement 51 Spaulding's Swiss Bell-players .. .' Fastest Recorded Time, etc ; 53 Tony Pastor's Great Star Troupe; Healy's Hibernian French Dynasties and Sovereigns 57 Minstrels ' Kings and Queens of England, Table of the 40 Shannon, Miller & Crane, Theatrical Goods ( Lightning Salve 24 "De Witt's Baseball-players' Guide;" The Brahams. Locust Year...... 45 Sketch Artists; Van Fleet, Printer; Ed. James, Mill of Devers, The—Poem 17 Sporting Goods ( Monument to McDonald Clarke, the Mad Poet 27 Peck & Snvder, Skates, Baseball and Sporting Goods.... i Miser's H- yd. The; A Tradition of Italy 34 Tarrant &'Co., Druggists; Roe Stephens, Music; "De Mail Timf etc., to Prominent Cities. 16 Witt's Acting Plays;" W. J. Judd, Magical Goods; My Only Comic Song—Poem 30 American Hotel, Franklin, Pa ( Magic Squares of Archimedes. = 50 Merchant's Gargling Oil < •PXJBI.ISHED AT THE OFFICE OF TE ]Sr E W^ Y O R K: C L IP F E E 88 and 90 CENTRE STREET, NEW YORK. a!^JK..A^2^25; iqjXJiaEJlN's, JPvi]L>li!slier ana I»roi>rietor, M¥ YOEK CLIPPER ALMANAC FOR 18 77. To lioldL, as 'tvrero, tlie niirroi* in> to iiatxir*?. HAMLET, ACT III, SCK.V?: TT . SI OS' ^v V J^ 2« / 5^77//^^7, l^^O \ THE NEW YORK CLIPPER ALMANAC. ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS r'oit THE: •YJBA^xt oiT' oxjii, x^oi^i> XS'TT^. Being (until July 4) tlie 101st Year of the Independence of the United States of America, BY BEELIN H. WRIGHT, ECLIPSES, There will be five Eclipses this year: L A Total Eclipse of the Moon, Februar)' 27, invisible in North America. II. A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, March 14, invisible in America. III. A Partial Eclipse of tlie Sun, August 8, invisible in America. IV. A Total Eclipse of tlie ^loon, August 23; the Moon rising more or less eclipsed east of Nebraska to the western boundary of South Carolina and Pennsylvania. In all the Atlantic States the Moon will rise totally eclipsed. END OF END OF ECLIPSE ECLIPSE TOTAL PLACE. TOTAL PLACE. E>fDS. ENDS. ECLIPSE. ECLIPSE? H. M. n. M. H. M. Boston 7 15 ev. 8 16 ev. 6 44 ev. 7 45 ev New Haven 7 7" 8 8" 6 39 " 7 40 " Hartford 7 8" 8 9" Cincinnati 6 21 " 7 22 " Concord 7 13 '• 8 14 " Chicac;o 6 9'^ 7 10 " 7 4" 8 5" Madison 6 2" 7 3" New York 7 3" 8 4" Sprincfield, 111 6 1" 7 2" 6 48 " 7 49 " Nasliville 6 21 " 7 22 " Buffalo 6 44 " 7 45 " 5 17 " 7 18 " Detroit 6 27 " 7 28 " 5 59 " 7 0" Trenton 7 1 " 8 2" St. Louis 5 58 " 6 59 " 6 53 " 7 54 " 5 45 " 6 46 " 6 59 " 8 0" 5 38 " 6 39 " 6 51 " 7 52 " Contact. Contact. Richmond 6 49 " 7 50 " V, A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, September 7, invisible in North America; visible in Brazil and Chile. T'HE FOXJIt SJBA^iSOISrS. D. H. M. D. H. M. WINTER BEGINS 1876 December, 21 5 46 AND LASTS 89 1 18. SPRING 1877 March, 20 7 4 " 92 20 6. SUMMER " 1877 June, 21 3 10 " 93 14 30. AUTUMN 1877 September, 22 5 40 " 89 13 2. WINTER " 1877 December, 21 1142 Tropical year. 365 5 56. ZMCODaiiVIlN^O ^nOJSJ^Et^. EiTTBIS^IlVO iST^ItJS. VENUS until May 6. VENUS after May 6. MARS after April 24. MARS until April 24. JUPITER imtil March 22. JUPITER after March 22. SATURN from February 23 to June 10. SATURN until February 28 and after June 10. OHItOr^OIL-OGMC^X.. OY^CJLEiS. M:0VA.B1L.E FEST'IV^lL.S, Etc. Dominical Letter G. Septuagesima Sunday Jan. 28 Epact (Moon's age, January 1st) 15 Sexagesima Sunday Feb. 4 Lunar Cycle or Golden No 16 Quinquagesima Sunday " H Solar Cycle 10 Ash Wednesday " 14 Roman Indiction 5 Quadragesima Sunday " 18 Dyonisian Period 206 Mid Lent Sunday Mar. 11 Julian Period 6590 Palm Sunday " 25 Year 56.37 of the Jewish Era, commencing Janu- Good Friday " 30 arvl6 1877 Easter Sunday Apr. 1 Year of the World (Usher) 5881 Low Sunday " 8 Year of the World (Jews; 5637 Rogation Sunday May 6 Year of the World (Septuagint) 7385 A.scension Day " 10 Year A. U. C. (Building of Rome) 2630 Whlt-Sunday " 20 fear of the Olympiads. 2653 Trinity Sunday " 27 gar of the Era of Nabonassor 2624 Corpus Christi " 31 Advent Sunday Dec. 2 I»IL.^I^E;T'!S liPfclGrHT'nEST'. .j"RY will be in the best position tor visibility January 7, May 1, August 28, and December 22, settina: then after -Iso February 23, June 2.3, and October 15, rising then before the Sun; VENUS not this year, but will be bright ember; MARS, Septembers; JUPITER, June 19; SATURN, September 9; URANUS, February 10. y J^ THE NEW YORK CLIPPER ALMANAC. EXPLANATION OF THE CALENDAR. AUGUST, originally styled Sextilis, received its pres- ent name from the Emperor Augustus, on account of A year is the period of time in which the earth several of the most fortunate events of his life having makes a revolution around the sun, or in which the occurred during this month.
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