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Show LEGITIMATE FEBRUARY 30. ! Can there legitimately bo a February Feb-ruary 110? Yes, under exceptional circumstances, if a ship happen to bo voyaging across the Pacific at I ho end of February during a leap car. An observer, looking over 11 I'olltction of menu cards, found one dated February ISO, 1001. At first ho thougM it was a printer's error, but he f.rterward nsrertnincd that it was correct. Tho dinner w.is given on hoard tho Pacific steamer Siberia wh-lo crossing from Yokohama Yoko-hama to San Francisco. A day is gained bi'h.ccn .lapan and America, and as tho event happened on this occasion at the end of February, leap jenr, the date February DO was right. |