Dominical Letter.. Septuagesima-Sunday, Jan. 24 Epact.. 23 Sexagesima 66 31 Golden Number. Solar Cycle.. 14 Quinquagesima 66 Feb. 7 Easter-Sunday. ...... Ash-Wednesday, 66 Ascension-Day Roman Indiction.. Quadragesima-Sunday, Mid-Lent. Mar. 7 Dionysian Period. 204 Palm-Sunday. 66 21 Jewish Lunar Cycle..... Good-Friday Whit-Sunday. II. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, September 29. Visible east of the ssissippi River as a Partial Eclipse, the Sun rising eclipsed. Also in Africa and South-western urope. The Eclipse will be annular or ring-like from Sodus Point, on the south shore of Lake Ontario, Lyons, Oswego, Syracuse, Utica, Saratoga, and Northern Massachusetts to the ocean. Along the central line the size of the Eclipse will be 11 digits. For the time of ending and size, see the following table : New-Year's Day... Washington's Birthday. Decoration Day.. Independence Day.. Jan. Feb. Mar. April. May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Planets Brightest. Mercury, February 10, June 6, and October 3, setting then soon after the Sun; also March 31, July 30, and November 18, rising then a short time before the Sun. Venus, January 12. Saturii, August 15. Mars, June 20. Astronomical calculations in this Almanac by SAMUEL H. WRIGHT, A.M., M.D., Penn Yan, N. Y. First Sunday 66 66 46 |