. Harper's young people . ngleday, while the year 2000 will be a leap-year. Thus everycentury not divisible by four loses one da\. The Gregorian calendar was slowly adopted in Protest-ant countries, and has never been adopted in Russia. Itwas not received in England until 1752. Eleven dayswere then omitted from the month of September, 17r>l ; the2d was made the 14th, and the Gregorian method of com-puting time became obligatory over England and EnglishAmerica. Much opposition was made; the terms New andOld Style arose, and before 1752 it is always necessary toallow for the change in the cal
. Harper's young people . ngleday, while the year 2000 will be a leap-year. Thus everycentury not divisible by four loses one da\. The Gregorian calendar was slowly adopted in Protest-ant countries, and has never been adopted in Russia. Itwas not received in England until 1752. Eleven dayswere then omitted from the month of September, 17r>l ; the2d was made the 14th, and the Gregorian method of com-puting time became obligatory over England and EnglishAmerica. Much opposition was made; the terms New andOld Style arose, and before 1752 it is always necessary toallow for the change in the calendar. The New Style be-gan January 1, 1752. On the 15th of October, 1882, occurred the three-hun-dredth anniversary of the reform introduced by GregoryXIII. It recalls the fact that we are computing time bya method first arranged by Julius Caesar, and correctedby Gregory, but whose origin reaches so far back into thehistory of man, that we can never discover what race orwhat man of- science first measured the solar TOO Mfrll C1IK1STMAS DIXXKK. WILLIES CHRISTMAS. BY HELEN S. ( UNA XT MOTHER! wake up, mother! said Willie Dawson turned her head feebly on her pil-low, and as she opened her eyes slowly, tried to smile atthe little boy who stood anxiously at her bedside. The daylight st rubied feebly through the frost-coveredwindows of the room. It was not a comfortable was no carpet on the floor, and the very smallstove w as cold and dark. (>n a table in (lie corner lay aheap of unfinished sewing, and there were three chairsbesides i he bed. If 1 build a lire, and make the room nice and warm,dont \o think \ ou can get up, mother : said the littleboy. as he struggled to keep a bright face, although bigtears \\ ere crowding into iiis great blue eyes. Yes, Willie, Said Mrs. l>awson. faintly ; I must getup and finish that work for the lady in the village. Ipromised to take it h e last week. lint you couldnt work, mother, when you were SOsick. Now Ill
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