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Friday

1924 1952 2 5
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1Tuesday 1 Wednesd. 1Thursday 1 Friday

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1 Saturday 2 Sunday 3 Monday

5 Wednes

2 Friday

2 Saturday

3 Friday

3 Saturday

3 Sunday

4 Saturday

4 Sunday

4 Monday

4 Tuesday

5 Sunday

5 Monday

5 Tuesday

6 Tuesday

6 Wednesd. 6 Thursda

7 Wednesd.

8 Thursday
9 Friday

8 Friday

8 Saturday

9 Saturday

6 Monday
7 Tuesday

11 Sunday
13 Tuesday
12 Monday

10 Sunday

OTE.-To ascertain any - of the week, first look Monday the table for the year wednesd. 8 Thursday Tuesday 2 Wednesd. 2 Thursday uired, and under the Thursday 4 Friday nths are figures which Friday 5 Saturday er to the corresponding Saturday 6 Sunday ares at the head of the Sunday 7 Monday Monday 8 Tuesday 8 Wednesd. umns of days below. For Tuesday 9 Wednesd. 9 Thursday ample: To know on Wednesd. 10 Thursday 10 Friday 10 Saturday at day of the week July Thursday 11 Friday 11 Saturday vill be in the year 1892, Saturday 13 Sunday 13 Monday 13 Wednesd. 13 Thursda 12 Saturday 12 Sunday 12 Tuesday 12 Wednes the table of years look Sunday 14 Monday 14 Tuesday 14 Wednesd. 14 Thursday 14 Friday 1892, and in a parallel Monday 15 Tuesday 15 Wednesd. 15 Thursday 15 Friday 15 Saturday e, under July, is fig. 5, Tuesday, 16 Wednesd. 16 Thursday 16 Friday 16 Saturday 16 Sunday nich directs to col. 5, in Wednesd. 17 Thursday 17 Friday 17 Saturday 17 Sunday 17 Monday 18 Saturday 18 Sunday 18 Monday 18 Tuesday ich it will be seen that Thursday 18 Friday Friday 19 Saturday 19 Sunday 19 Monday 19 Tuesday 19 Wednes ly 4 falls on Monday. Saturday 20 Sunday 20 Monday 20 Tuesday 20 Wednesd. 20 Thursda Sunday 21 Monday 21 Tuesday 21 Wednesd. 21 Thursday 21 Friday Monday 22 Tuesday 22 Wednesd. 22 Thursday 22 Friday 22 Saturday Tuesday 23 Wednesd. 23 Thursday 23 Friday 23 Saturday 23 Sunday 1752 same as 1772 from Jan. Wednesd. 24 Thursday 24 Friday 24 Saturday 24 Sunday 24 Monday to Sept. 2. From Sept. 14 to Thursday 25 Friday 25 Saturday 25 Sunday 25 Monday 25 Tuesday ec. 31 same as 1780 (Sept. 3-Friday 26 Saturday 26 Sunday 26 Monday 26 Tuesday 26 Wednesd were omitted).This Calen-Saturday 27 Sunday 27 Monday 27 Tuesday 27 Wednesd. 27 Thursda ar is from Whitaker's Lon- Sunday 28 Monday 28 Tuesday 28 Wednesd. 28 Thursday 28 Friday on Almanack, with some re. Monday 29 Tuesday 29 Wednesd. 29 Thursday 29 Friday 29 Saturday

k, the equatorial semi-diameter is 20,926,202 feet 0,854,895 feet

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3963.296 miles, and the

3950.738 miles. One degree of latitude at the pole 69.407 titude at the equator · 68.704 miles.

PULATION OF THE EARTH BY CONTINENTS.

>ceedings of the Royal Geographical Society for January, 1891.)

was made by Ernest George Ravenstein, F.R.G.S., the geographer and statis

lation of the earth made by Drs. Wagner and Supan, editors of "Bevölkerung tha, 1891), is as follows: Europe, 357,379,000; Asia, 825,954,000; Africa, 163,713,000; Australia, 3,230,000; Oceanic Islands, 7,420,000; polar regions, 400. The estimate of area of the continents and islands by the same author

te of the earth's fertile region, in square miles, polar region, 4,888,800."

28,269,200; steppe, 13,901,

the earth at the death of the Emperor Augustus, estimated by Bodio, was
on of Europe hardly exceeded 50,000,000 before the fifteenth century.-Mulhall.
contents of the earth, according to the data of Clark, given above, are: Sur-
miles; cubic contents, 259,944,035,515 cubic miles.

expedition) states the greatest depth of the Atlantic Ocean at 27,366 feet;
et; Indian Ocean, 18,582 feet; Southern Ocean, 25,200 feet; Arctic Ocean,
> Ocean has an area, in square miles, of 24,536,000; Pacific Ocean, 50,309,000;
; Arctic Ocean, 4,781,000; Southern Ocean, 30,592,000.
he earth, according to creed, see RELIGIOUS STATISTICS.

JLATION OF THE EARTH ACCORDING TO RACE. (Estimate by John Bartholomew, F.R.G.S., Edinburgh.)

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is subjected to forty-four principal governments. As to their form, they may
: Absolute monarchies, China, Madagascar, Morocco, Persia, Russia, Siam,
archies, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, British Empire, Denmark, Germany,
pan, Netherlands, Portugal, Roumania, Servia, Spain and Sweden and Nor-
ine Republic, Bolivia, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France,
duras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Orange Free State, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, San
Transvaal, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela. Besides these are
of Central and South Africa and a few insignificant independent states.
n of human life is about 33 years. One quarter of the people on the earth die
efore age 16, and only about 1 person of each 100 born lives to age 65. The
67 per minute, 97,790 per day, and 35,639,835 per year; the births at 70 per
and 36,792,000 per year.

EUROPEAN LANGUAGES SPOKEN.

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WHOLE.

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PROPOR

BER OF PERSONS TION OF

NUMBER OF PERSONS
SPOKEN BY.

PROPOR-
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7,480,000 13,000,000 4.7 30,770,000 75,000,000 19.0

161,800,000 401,700,000 100.0 100.0

hall (1891) exhibit the superior growth of the English language in the last ninety years.

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WEATHER BUREAU, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.*

au furnishes, when practicable, for the benefit of the general public and those interests or less extent upon weather conditions, the "Forecasts" which are prepared at this office OP.M., for the following day. These weather forecasts are telegraphed to observers at r Bureau, railway officials, and many others, and are so worded as to be readily commuy means of flags or steam whistles. The flags adopted for this purpose are five in numd dimensions indicated below:

EXPLANATION OF FLAG SIGNALS.

No 2.

No. 3.

No. 4.

No. 5.

square in centre.

Blue Flag. White and Blue Flag. Black Triangular Flag. White Flag with black

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flag, six feet square, indieates clear or fair weather. Number 2, blue flag, six rain or snow. Number white and blue flag (parallel bars of white and blue), cates that local rains or showers will occur, and that the rainfall will not be black triangular flag, four feet at the base and six feet in length, always refers en placed above numbers 1, 2, or 3 it indicates warmer weather; when placed or 3 it indicates colder weather; when not displayed, the indications are that the ain stationary, or that the change in temperature will not vary more than four perature of the same hour of the preceding day from March to October, incluhan six degrees for the remaining months of the year. Number 5, white flag, black square in centre, indicates the approach of a sudden and decided fall in signal is not to be displayed unless it is expected that the temperature will fall or lower, and is usually ordered at least twenty-four hours in advance of the umber 5 is displayed, number 4 is always omitted.

on poles the signals should be arranged to read downward; when displayed from a small streamer should be attached to indicate the point from which the signals

INTERPRETATION OF DISPLAYS.

1, alone, indicates fair weather, stationary temperature.
2, alone, indicates rain or snow, stationary temperature.
3, alone, indicates local rain, stationary temperature.
1, with No. 4 above it, indicates fair weather, warmer.

1, with No. 4 below it, indicates fair weather, colder.

2, with No. 4 above it, indicates warmer weather, rain or snow.

2, with No. 4 below it, indicates colder weather, rain or snow.

3, with No. 4 above it, indicates warmer weather with local rains. with No. 4 below it, indicates colder weather with local rains.

3,

1, with No. 5 above it, indicates fair weather, cold wave.

2, with No. 5 above it, indicates wet weather, cold wave.

with reference to the display or sounding of these symbols and signals should Director of the State Service in which the station is located or to the Chief of the ashington, D. C.

es, with headquarters, in which State Weather Services are in operation, are as

ce of the Government was transferred last year from the War Department to the Depart

aare flags indicate the character of the storm, whether moderate or severe.

Westerly wind

-w flag with a white centre indicates that the winds expected will not be so severe, but ▾ vessels can meet them without danger.

lag with a black centre indicates that the storm is expected to be of marked violence. nnants displayed with the flags indicate the direction of the wind: red, easterly (from no ite, westerly (from southwest to north). The pennant above the flag indicates that th o blow from the northerly quadrant; below, from the southerly quadrant.

ht a red light will indicate easterly winds and a white light above a red light westerly wi Information Signal" consists of a yellow pennant of the same dimensions as the red and direction signals), and when displayed indicates that the local observer has received inform I office of a storm covering a limited area, dangerous only for vessels about to sail to certa will serve as a notification to shipmasters to apply for information to the local observer. -These signals, principally for the information of maritime interests, are distinct from the emperature, and rain signals displayed throughout the country.

Greatest Altitudes in Each of the States.

FROM THE RECORDS OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

lmon River Mts. known to be much higher, but elevation not definitely known.

E.-The above table was prepared for THE WORLD ALMANAC by the Geographic Branch of th teological Survey, J. W. Powell, director. It should be stated in connection with this ta s only points whose heights are matters of record, and that in several cases in the high mounta ar West and the Pacific Slope it is well known that there are higher points within the State or heights are not yet known with any approach to accuracy, and consequently cannot be given.

OBJECTS VISIBLE AT SEA.

e following table shows the distance at sea at which objects are visible at certain elevations: