Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — The Spring Equinox Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

The Spring Equinox Tuesday.

Last Tuesday March 21st, was the date cf the vernal equinox, when tbe sun is exactly vertical over the earth’s equator, and tbe days and nigh’s are eaohsuppes d to be exactly 12 hours long Which supposition does not work out just right, for the day is really 10 minutes longer than the night It is also one of the days when spring is supposed to begin. Tue day when, as tbe almanacs say, “Sun enter Aries, Spring begins.” But Spring has lots of days for making her grand spectacular entrance, and after all of them she lets go a good many times to get a better hold, and to give eld Winter a chance to make another farewell speil, Thus spring begins on the let day of March, then again on the 16th, [when tbe reign of the Ground-hog is over, and still again on tbe vernal epuinox. And after all those starts is sure to hive a number of relapses.