Deseret Evening News | 1899-12-20 | Page 4 | Chicago News

Chicago News Ot Of nU all th time follies yet yot In evidence the clamor of people ho be believe lieve that ninetynine years make malce a century Is the silliest That even lar tr 1 islam probably believed that In hold holdIng lag Ing their great exposition In 1900 they thet would Inaugurate n a new century instead ot of rounding out on an old lId ono one shows how widespread waS and is III the harmless delusion I I is tIme the last lut year of tIme tho nineteenth century Had the tho tTO tiro ot of time unaccountable deto elu aba that 18 Ii tIme the first firt year ear of th tIme twentieth century turned to the tho Cen Century tul tury dictionary the might have saved themselves the they are no now milking making die gives Ibis explicit definition of the word century Century In the r reckoning ot of time although Often otten used In a general wa of any serIes of a hundred consecutive years ears as 1 a cen century century tury of temperance work usually sig signifies nines n a ot of the ChristIan era consisting ot of u a period of years end endIng lag Ing with the one hundredth year eor from shiichi It Is named as the first century CA A D 1100 InclusIve the seventh century A D the eighteenth century A D