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ECLIPSES, 1896. 
There will be four Eclipses this year, two each of the Sun 
and Moon, as follows: ...... . 
I. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, Feb. 13, invisible in the 
United States; visible in Africa, South America and the 
Southern Atlantic Ocean. ...... 
II. A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, Feb. 28, invisible in 
America. ; . . , 
III. A Total Eclipse of the Sun, Aug - . 9, visible in North 
Asia, Europe, British America, Greenland and Alaska. 
IV. A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, Aug. 23, visible through¬ 
out North and South America. Size 8.8 digits. 
Begins. 
H. M. 
Boston. 0 40 mo. 
New-York. o 28 mo. 
Washington. 0 16 mo. 
Middle. 
H. M. 
2 13 mo. 
2 1 mo. 
1 49 mo. 
Ends. 
H. M. 
3 46 mo. 
3 34 mo. 
3 22 mo. 
morning and evening stars. 
rNOTE.-An Evening Star rises before midnight; a Morning 
Star rises after midnight, geocentrically.] 
VENUS, morn., until July 9; ev., after July 9. MAKS, 
morn., until Sept. 1; ev., after Sept 1. JUPITER, mora., 
from Aug. 12 to Nov. 30; ev., until Aug. 12 and after Nov. 
30. SATURN, morn., until Feb. 7 and after Nov. 13; ev., 
from Feb. 7 to Nov. 13. 
PLANETS BRIGHTEST. 
Mercury, January 25. April 25, September 22. and Decern 
ber 31, setting just after the sun in the evening twilight, 
also February 2 Q, July 24, and October 22, rising in the morn¬ 
ing twilight (the italicized dates are the most favorable). 
VENUS, not this year; but will be pretty bright at the be¬ 
ginning and close of the year. 
Mars, December n. Jupiter, January 24. SATURN, 
May 5. URANUS, May 12. NEPTUNE, December 10. 
MOVABLE FESTIVALS. 
Septuagesima Sun...Feb. 
Sexagesima “ ... “ 
Quinquagesima “ ... “ 16 
Shrove Tuesday. “ 18 
Ash Wednesday. “ 19 
Quadragesima Sun... ** 23 
Palm Sunday.Mar. 29 
Good Friday.Apr. 3 
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Easter Sunday.Apr. 5 
Low Sunday. “ 12 
Rogation Sunday... .May 10 
Ascension Thursday. “ 14 
Whit-Sundav (Pent.). “ 24 
Trinity Sunday. “ 3 1 
Corpus Christi.Tune 4 
Advent Sunday.Nov. 29 
CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES. 
Dominical Letters.ED 
Epact. J 5 
Golden Number. 16 
Qnlar Ptrrlf* . I 
Roman Indiction. 9 
Julian Period ..6609 
Dionysian Period. 225 
T nnar Pvrle__ 1*3 
