INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK Richard A. McCurdy, President. Head Offices, Nassau, Cedar, Liberty Streets Assets over $240,000,000 Twenty-Year Distribution Policy on continuous life and limited payment plans. This affords the maximum of security at the minimum of cost; Endowment Life Option Policy provides a guarantee income, a secure investment, and absolute protection; Five Per Cent. Debentures provides the best and most effective forms of investment, indemnity and fixed annual income to survivors; Continuous Instalment Policy so adjusts the payment of the amount insured as to create a fixed income during the life of the beneficiary. For detailed information concerning these exclusive forms of insurance policies apply at any of the Company's authorized agencies, which may be found in every city and town of the United States. FOR 1898. 75350 HENRY ECKFORD RHOADES, Editor. ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS. (Prepared expressly for The Tribune Almanac by Berlin H. Wright, Penn Yan, N. Y.) ECLIPSES. lows: There will be six eclipses this year, three of each, the sun and moon, as fol I. A partial eclipse of the moon, January 7, visible in the United States as follows: II. A total eclipse of the sun, January 22, invisible in America. III. IV. An annular eclipse of the sun, July 18, invisible in North America. V. A partial eclipse of the sun, December 12-13, visible in the Antarctic regions. VI. A total eclipse of the moon, December 27, visible throughout the United States, as follows: SUPERIOR PLANETS, EAST OR WEST, OF THE SUN. WEST. Mars, all the year. EAST. Mars, not this year. Jupiter, from March 25 to October 13. Day. Jan. TABLE I. MEAN TIME OF SIDEREAL NOON, OR MERIDIAN PASSAGE OF THE VERNAL EQUINOX AT WASHINGTON, D. C., FOR 1898. (For other places, add 9.83 seconds for each hour of longitude east of Washington, and subtract the same for each hour west March. Dec. of Washington.) Eve. H. M. S. H.M.S. H.M. S. 5:13:40 3:11:47 9:21:51 4:30:24 13. 4:26:28 8:34:40 H.M.S. 29. 30.. 31.. 3:23:35 11:23:44 11:39:28 9:37:34 7:39:37 5:37:44 3:39:46 1:38:53 11:32:04 9:34:07 7:32:14 5:34:16 3:35:50 1:34:57 11:28:08 9:30:11 7:28:18 5:30:20 3:31:54 1:30:02 11:24:12 9:26:15 7:24:22 5:26:24 3:27:59 1:26:06 11:20:17 3:24:03 1:22:10 TABLE II. TIMES OF UPPER MERIDIAN PASSAGE OF POLARIS, OR NORTH STAR, 1898. Surveyors and civil engineers may obtain the variation of the magnetic needle for any place in the United States by directing |