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LAST FOII EIGHT YEARS.
THERE WILL NOT BE AM
OTHER LEAP YEAR
UNTIL 104.
It Therefore Behooves the Lsuiies
to Take Advantage of the
Present Opportunity.
The leap year which now begins is,
however, to a certain extent peculiar,
since another will not occur for eight
years. Such an interval lias occurred
twice before in the history of Scot
lan 1, and only once in the history of
England, ami two ee tunes will
elapse before it occurs again. The
j.ist ye at ,>[ the present century. 1900,
will nut be a leap year, hut 2IKM), the
last year of the succeeding c ntury,
will. Tile year 2100 will again be a
connunti year, so that the next period
of seven consecutive cninino • years
will he between 2090 an t 2104.
The rule by which this seemingly
arbitrary interference with an c~la
lisheil <>icer i t things is n.';ni t ?<i is
comparatively M. o.le, but us history
is in tua-v r. sp. is both i art ns and
interesting. As everyone knows, tue
earth revolves round the sun, the one
rev utiou causing the ilteri.ati ti oi
dav and ■ igiit the other that >f lite
seas ms. From the earii st tones
•< 1 aye made -se of both these sc
rb s *f ’ lot i if'- . ■ ni> of recoil
ii-_> min and hen b on a simple
tiuin u* ai o ti ic l them
ilie■. rued n v.o c been ary Iron,
'ile t ith Imi ears ni l such deviee;;.
Y< - ■ o. ati-lv. However, this is not
~t p c.'i itt eea.i 1 I'he number of
r c vdu ions which the earth makes
wneii it goes once round the sun, in
stead of being a whole number is a
innnl er and a traction; or, in other
words, the earth goes round the sun
in 8(35 days 5 hours and 48 minutes
46 s-eotids, or 365.2422 days. This
was not, however, discovered in a day
Various guesses were made at the
propei length of the year, and calen
dars were drawn up in accoordance
with them. But in the course of time
the error accumulated, with the result
that the seasons changed places, and
the vernal equinox, tnsterd of remain
mg at a fixed place iu the calendar
moved backward or forward, ac.ord
trig as the apnroximatiou w as in excess
i.r defect, and extra days had to be in
tercalated or omitted to set things
right.
By the time of Juliues Oeasar the
Roman year, which consisted of 35.>
days, had worked loose by three
months, so that the winter months
had been carried back into autumn.
In order to prevent such confusion in
future, with the aid of Sosigenes, in
fixed the lengh of the year at
days, or three years of 365 days, fol
lowed by one of 366. At the same
tune, to bring back the equinox to its
proper place, lie inercalated 90 days
into the current year of 355 days,
making it 445 days—probably the
longest year on record. This was the
Julian calendar, ad to it we owe to
this day the leap year which comes
•very fourth year.
But the approximation on which
the calendar was based, though much
more accurate and convenient than
anv that had preceded it, gave too
long a year by the difference between
365 25 and 365.2422, the error amount
ng to a day in 128 years. In the
course of the centuries, the equinox
gradually reeeded towird the begin
ning of the year. Caesar had fixed it
on March 25; by the time of the coun
cil ef Nice, and 1582 it had receded
to*March 11. In order to restore the
equinox t* the position it occupied in
325, wheu the council of Nice had
drawn up regulations for the fixing of
Easter, Pope Gregory, in 1582, di
reeled ten days to be suppressed, and
as the error wras found to amount to
three days in 400 years, he laid down
that in future the last year of every
century should be an ordinary year,
unless it is divisible by 400, i which
, case it was to be a leap year. Thus
1390 will be an ordinary year, but
2000 will be a leap year.
Pope Gregory’s correction gives an
average year of 365.2425 days, or 26
seconds longer than the true year.
These odd seconds will to a whole
yea- iu 3,323 years, and it has been
proposed to allow for this etror by
providing that the year 4000, and all
its multiples, •hall be common years.
But this would b 4 a pedantic foresight
and it is unnecessary to discuss the ;
question whether the year 4000 ought
or ought not to be a leap year. In
ages yet to come, when the friction of
the tides has so retarded the rotation
of the earth that 361 days make a
year, leap years will he unnecessary.
But that is a still remoter cantin
gency, and in the meantime Pope
Gregory s calendar is likely to remain
in its present form. —Ediuourg Scots
man.
Kisses by mail.
A yonrg postmaster of a village
j post-office was hard at work when a
I gentle tap was heard upon the door,
and m stepped a beautiful maiden of
sixteen with a money -ord r, w u oil
she desired cashed. Stic, h uide I it
to the nftliici.il with a b..shtul s. tie,
who, after closely examining ii,
handed her the moii'y it culkd fur.
At the same tune ho asked her it sha
I had read what was written mi the
margin of the order.
“No, I have not,” she replied, “for
I . annul make it out. Will you please
read it for me?”
The voting postmaster read as fol—
'lows: “I send you three dollars and
a dozen k.sses. ’
Glancing at the bashful girl, lie said:
j “Now, 1 Lave paid you the money
and 1 suppose yo i want the the
kisses.”
“Yes,” she said, “if lie sent me any
kissis 1 want them, too.”
It is hardly necessary to sfy that
the balance of the order was prompt
ly paid, and in a scientific manner at
that and eminently satisfactory to the
country maiden, for she went out ot
die office smacking her lips as if there
was a taste upon them she had never
encountered before.
After idie arrived home she ra
markrd to her mother: “Eh, mother,
hut this posloftiee system of ours is a
great thing, developing, more and
mere every year, and each new feat
ure added teems to be the best. Jim
mie sent me a dozen kisses along with
the money order, and the postmaster
gave me twenty. It beats the special
delivery system all hollow.”
I)'lroyliij WHtl Onion*.
Question- 14.— How can I get rid of
the wild onions which infest mv pas
tors anil ruin the butter and milk? I
have this trouble every spring.
| Answkb U.—This inquiry comes up
with unerring regularity every spring
j and we understand from experience the
•nuoyauco of having to throw in tlie
slops gallons of milk, rninod by the
flavor of tho onions which tho cows
have eaton. Tho.e plants are among
the first to appear when tho spring
W'-ather begins to encourage vegetation
end for this reason, as well as from the
fact that < at tie are fond of them, milk
cows should not bo turned into ft pas
ture in which they have gained a footing
Tho cows, so long deprived of tender
green food, will eagerly seek out the
onions and devour them. Tho only
plan we know of is to plant some crop
of superior growth, such as ooxvpoas or
crimsou clover, which has a tendency
to supercede tho onion growth and to cut
this crop before the “buttons’’on top
of the onions have time to form. By this
plan we accomplish a twofold purpose.
The onions are prevented from forming
additional roots, and the “buttons” can
not mature to bo scattered for another
crop. If a cultivated crop is planted,
this will also tend to destroy tho onions,
the roots being plowed up during th#
course of cultivation, but tho process of
eradication is necessarily a slow one.
If either of the above plans (or both,
because a cultivated crop may come af
ter the German clover), is adopted, we
mast not expect to be at once success
ful. Where the onions have taken pos
session of the land, it may be some time
before their destruction is entirely ac
complished.—State Agricultural De
partment.
German or Crimson Clover.
Question 13.—Can German clover be
•own in the spring, and is it a good
crop to turn under for Improving the
land ? How much seed to the acre ?
Answer 13. —German clover is not
adapted for spring sowing. The best
time to sow is from the latter part of
August until October,, though it may
be sown still later. The amount of seed
per acre should be about 15 to 20 pounds,
according to the fertility of the soil.
With the exception of the field pea, there
is no crop, which at tho south, may bo
made of greater service in Improving
the soil and its culture does not inter
fere with the growth of summer crops
on the same land. Unlike other clover
it is an annual and after perfecting its
seed in the spring, dies down. If the
growth is good and care is taken to
cease pasturing and cutting soon enough
in the season, say about March 1, the
seeds will mature and if not gathered,
but allowed to fall on the land, a crop
of late com may be planted and culti
vated, and when this is taken off the
clover will spring up and the plants
again cover the land.—State Agricul
tur.il ueJErtnio a-
Fertilizer For Cotton.
Question 20. —I have made a mixture
of three-fourths cottonseed meal, and
one fourth kainit. Is it a complete fer
tilizer, and is it a good mixture for cot
ton?
Axsweu 'A).— The fertilizer that you
have made, larks a most important in
gredient, and until that is added, it is
not by any means a complete fertilizer.
The nitrogen of the ncal will give
growth to the stalk and foliage of the
plant the kai lit will giv i strength an.l
vigor to the stalk, and t mds t > lessen
the liability t > rut. butt) mikitho
plants frn t well, y m mu it have phos
phoric acid in a Iditi m t the other two
Ingredients. With the addition of the
acid yon will have a conin'. <te fertiliz'r,
without it y et will grow a vi ;■ ir >us,
but poorly fruited cotton plant, I
would recommend a mixture of 1.00.)
pounds of u"id p’l isp i it ■. 3)0 piu ids
of eettms'ed ni>al, ir.il 30) pounds of
kainit —State Agricultural Department.
(ifTiinn Clover ll.i. m Stock I'oo.l,
Question li.—l have heard that the
German clover hay is dangerous as a
food for stock. I would like to be in
formed on this point and would also ask
when is the proper time for cutting and
curing it '!
Assws& 17.—The hay should bo cut
before the s'ed begins to form. If left
later than this and the seed is allowed
to ripen, the beard of chaff may cause
trouble. German clover hay is now
used in large quantities and with suc
cess as a food for both horses and cows.
It is, however, a safe rule to give a
mixed ration, combining the clover
with either hay or fodder. It will
then be harmless, even if it was cut
when too ripo.—State Agricultural De
part meat.
From LaGrippe.
How Dr. Miles’ Nervine Restored
One of Kentucky’s Business
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