Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1879 — National Thanksgiving. [ARTICLE]

National Thanksgiving.

, WashixotOx, November 3. The following proclamation was issued by the President to-day: ? At no recurrence of the season which the devout habits of a religious people have made the occasion of riving thunk■ to Almighty God, and humbly invoking His continued favor, has the National prosperity enjoyed by our whole country been more conspicuous, more manifold, or more universal. During the s past year, also, there has been unbroken peace with all foreign nations. The general prevalence of domestic tranquillity, the supremacy and security of our great institutions of civil and religious freedom, have gladdened the hearts of our people, and confirmed their attachment to their Government, which the wisdom and courage of our ancestors so fitly framed, and the wisdom and courage of their descendants have so firmly maintained to be the habitation of liberty and Justice to successive generations. Now, therefore, I r Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the Doited States, do appoint Thursday ,Jhe 27th day of November, instant, as a day of National thanksgiving and prayer; and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, the people of the United States do meettogetber on that day in their respective places of wor•faiP. there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies, and to devoutly beseech their continuance. Ip witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to he affixed. Done at the city of Washington this ad day P-W: 10 ™ 1 " “• Hi, “ William M. Btaxts, Secretary of state. . The year 1881 will be a mathematical curiosity. From left to right and right to left it reads the same; 18 divideaby 2 gives 9as a quotient; 81 divided by 9 and 9is the quotient. If 1881 is divided by 209, 9 is the quotient; if divided by 9 the quotient contains a 9; if multiplied by 9, the product contains two 9s. One and 8 axe 9, 8 and 1 are 9. If the 18 be placed under the 81 and added, the sum is 99. If the figures be added thus, 1,8, 8,1, it will be 18. Reading from left to right is 18, and 18 is two-ninths of 81. By adding, dividing and multiplying, nineteen 9s are produced, being one 9 for each year required to complete tise century. Four of the largest trades-unions in Great Britain have, during a comparatively brief term of existence, spent unWards of £260,000 ($1,500,000) in relieving the wants of members on strikes,