INTRODUCTORY NOTE. In offering to the public an Almanac for the year of our Lord 1886, it is proper for the managers of THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE to state briefly their reasons for the work. This publication is assuredly not made because the general field is uncovered. Art, science, commerce, politics, religion, all are variously and with marked ability represented. If the intelligent citizen desires to possess in convenient form a compendium of facts relating to the government of the United States, of the State of New York, of any given State, or if he would inform himself concerning the ups and downs of the stock market for the past twelve months, the operations of railroad and steamship lines, the export and import trade, the mining and manufacturing interests of the country, there is no difficulty. For less than the price of a bottle of wine he can secure a dozen different almanacs, each in its sphere representing the labor of many painstaking and alert minds and an expenditure of more than a mechanic earns in half a lifetime. What, however, he could not until now purchase at any price is an almanac containing the information about Brooklyn and Long Island which every man in Brooklyn or on the Island ought to possess, and which many times in the course of a year he must have occasion to regret the absence of. It is to fill this vacancy, to meet this want, to furnish the ready reference here indicated, that THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ALMANAC is issued. That it lacks none of the features that give value to or distinguish almanacs in general will be seen at a glance. Indeed, even as to these, it will, we believe, be found richer than most publications of the kind. But apart from all the wealth of its general instruction, it is plainly, unmistakably, and it is hoped thoroughly, an almanac for the use of Brooklyn and Long Island people. Its distinctive business is with the political, social, religious, commercial life of the third city of the Union and its suburbs, as the business of THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE is with the views and discussions that concern this same community. In other words, it is expected that the Almanac will be found to be a local publication in the same comprehensive sense that the EAGLE is local. To these explanatory remarks it must be added that from this time forth and through a remote future that need not now be contemplated, the first month of every succeeding year will see an additional number of THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ALMANAC. ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1886. Being, until July 4, the 110th Year of the Independence of the United States. BY BERLIN H. WRIGHT, DE LAND, FLORIDA. NOTE. The calculations have been made exclusively for this Almanac. The High Water for Boston, New York and Charleston are in Standard Time, Eastern Division. All the other matter is in Clock or Mean Time. MORNING STARS. EVENING STARS. MERCURY, until Feb. 24, and from April 28 to June MERCURY, from Feb. 24 to April 8; June 11 to 11; Aug. 16 to Sept. 27, and after Dec. 3. VENUS, from Feb. 18 to December 2. MARS, not at all. Aug. 16, and Sept. 27 to Dec. 3. JUPITER, until Oct. 9. SATURN, until July 3, and after Oct. 15. JUPITER, after Oct. 9. SATURN, from July 3 to Oct. 15. URANUS, after Oct. 1. NEPTUNE, from May 16 to Aug. 20. PLANETS BRIGHTEST-1886. NEPTUNE, until May 16, and after Aug. 20. MERCURY, Jan. 8 to 11, May 7-10, and Sept. 2-5, rising before the Sun; also, March 18-21, July 16-19, and Nov. 11-13, setting after the Sun. VENUS, Jan. 13 and March 26. MARS, March 6. JUPITER, March 21. SATURN, not this year. URANUS, March 26. NEPTUNE, Nov. 18. THE FOUR SEASONS (STANDARD TIME, 75th MERIDIAN). Jan. Feb. Mch. |April. May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday after first Sunday in Lent. ECLIPSES-1886. There will be two Eclipses this year, both of the Sun, as follows: March 17, 19 and 20 I. An annular Eclipse of the Sun March 5, visible throughout the United States west of Baltimore, Washington and Harrisburgh, which places mark the eastern limit of visibility. The middle of the Eclipse occurs at sunset along the line of the 90th Meridian, from New Orleans to St. Louis, and Springfield, Ill., and the Sun will set more or less eclipsed as far West as Santa Fé and Denver, at which places the Eclipse ends at sunset. At San Francisco the Eclipse begins at 2:20 P. M., and ends at 4:31 P. M. The annular phase will be visible near the City of Mexico. II. A total Eclipse of the Sun Aug. 28, visible in the southern and eastern United States as a partial Eclipse near sunrise. Visible south of a line from Portland, Me., through Central New York near the south shore of Lake Erie, southwesterly to Houston, Tex., where the Eclipse ends at sunrise. Throughout all the Atlantic and Gulf States, from Charleston, S. C., to Houston, Tex., the Sun will rise more or less eclipsed. The line of totality extends from Aspinwall to Madagascar. Curacoa, S. A., will be in the path. |