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Show Tin: siitii uk ii:nituAitr. Onn of our respected townsworoeo was recently subjected lo tbe pleasintry of a Idrthday "rsonal," In which she waasiokeiiofai having Ju.t reachr-l her slrleenlh birthday, when In wlnt offset she was sixty-lour. We maVo reference lo this as being an Instance out of many o'f the mlsiindeistsndlugs mated by the i,dd day lu February which was Ucke 1 011 by Pope Gregory to make tho calendar come out right, or nearly so, for even with that arbitrary arbi-trary arrangement it li not quite exact. The matter finds Its way Into court much olteuer than some uf our revler are aware. We have heard ol no audi Instances in this region, but It has frequently llgureJ elsewhere and has been the basis of rcveral judicial ju-dicial decision, some of them diametrically dia-metrically ontllcllng. Indiana, r-haps, r-haps, leads the record on 11,1s subject, where It has l-ren rule lou aud otherwise other-wise disposed of retesteilly. There Is now auiinreversel ruling InttiatB.ato to the eflcctlhst Kel.runyMlli and !lh are one and the same day In contemplation contem-plation of law. This camo from the Supreme Court and la thsreforulaw In Indiana; but perliai when their honors jo held they tiaj either conformity con-formity to modem convenience too much (.In view, or that Usually given to settled precedents Irom other high tribunals too little; lit-tle; for there Is an Kngllrh statute Leering on the subject, enacted In tho rtlgnof the Third Henry, which declares de-clares thtm to bo what they really ate, two separate and dtlnct days, aa rauchsossanyothori. Iu addition, a ilgh court of that day passed upon the statute, and held that tbo Mill of February Feb-ruary must be reckoned In the legal computation of time, particularly where days are being considered. The court adopted a process of reasoning so plain and logical aa to read like a uioio modem emanation, a sirtlou of It I fling: fl-ing: "la the man who works 011 February Feb-ruary 9 and it) to have pay for but one jay only? llaa a Judgment teudtrtd on February S no priority ai to one rendered on February!!)?" Action on Ibe sulject has been deemed uecesrary In cases where the whole year aa consisting of so many days Is considered. Iu Now Vork, for lustaucc, tbe statute provides that a year shall consist of S dsys, half a year 182 and a quarter 01 days; aud tho added day of leap year and that Immediately preceding, when occurring occur-ring In any period ao computed, iball be counted together aa one day. This Is, of course, for tho purjo of settling In ndvance what might otherwise create grave confusion If nothing more serious, and as seen refers only to cases In which the year la measured by days. Adopted universally and for all cases, It would completely upset chronological chro-nological data aud put all kinds of records re-cords btsed upon time sadly out of Joint. For 111110 puriosea wo use tho Hist day of March In lieu of tho last ilayot February In the three years coming between the bissextiles. |