THE NEW YORK CLIPPER ALMANAC.
 

45
 

MUTUAL.

2.79 I 6. Booth.......56

7,   Treacy......56

8,   MattheAvs ,.. 55

9,  Nichols .....56
 

1.  Start.......55

2.  Hallinan.... 54
.3. Holdsworth. 51

4.  Hicks.......45

5.   Craver......65

The players who took part in fewer than ten games
and not fewer than three made the folloAving averages
 

2.76

2,70'
2.30 1

2.201
 

2.15
2.13

1.83
1.75
 

DAY IN WASHINGTON AND OTHER CAPITALS.
 

1.  AndreAvs, Chicago.. 8.342

2.  Williams, Cincin'ti. 9.200

3.  McBride, Boston.... 4.187

4.   Hayes, Mutual......5.181

5.  Paul, Athletic.......3.166
 

6.  Carbine, LouiSA-ilie.  6.160

7.  McGinley,  Boston.  9.150

8.  Collins, Louisville,  7.142

9.  Bushing, Athletic,  5.004
10, Fields,Cincinnati,.  4.000
 

By the above record it will be seen that the players
leading each club stand as follows in the order of best
average:

Avge.

1.  Barnes of Chicago___4.00

2.   Hall of Athletic......3.55

3.   Clinton of LouLsville. 3.38

4.  Higham of Hartford. 3,24
 

Avge,

5.  Pike of St. Louis.....3': 10

6.  O'Rourke of Boston.. 3.05

7.  Jones of Cincinnati.. 2.84

8.  Start of Mutual......2.79
 

The first nine of the eight League clubs in the order
of best average are:
 

A\-ge.

Clinton of Louisville. 3.38
Meyerle of Athletic.. 3.35

White of Chicaffo___3,34

Hines of Chicago.....3.25
 

Avge.

1.  Barnes of Chicago... 4.00

2.   Hall of Athletic......3.65

3.  Peters of Chicago___3,49

4.  McVey of Chicago... 3.45

5.   Anson of Chicago ... 3.42

The players who took part in fewer than three games
each were Thayer, West, Heubel, Larkin, P. Treacy,
Valentine, McGuinness, Shandley, Maloney and Hat¬
field with the Mutuals; Lafferty, Mullen, Bergh, War¬
ner, Curren and Ward Avith the Athletics; Harry
Wright, Sam Wright, Parks and Nichols with the Bos¬
tons; and Phelps, vA-ho played with both the Mutuals
and the Athletics.
 

The following table shoAv-s the duration of the long¬
est and shortest days in the principal capitals through¬
out the Avorld, corrected for refraction, etc., and carried
out to the nearest minute:
 

Name of Place.
 

Stockholm.......

Copenhagen .....

St. Petersburg___

Berlin............

London..........

Edinburgh........

Dublin............

Amsterdam......

Vienna...........

Paris.............

Madrid...........

Lisbon............

Cairo.............

Naples...........

Constantinople. .,

Calcutta..........

Pekin.............

Cape ToAvn........

Boston............

Wa.shingtoii......

Panama..........

SA'dnev...........
 

Latitude.
 

Length of the:Length of the
Longest Day. Shortest Day
 

deg. m,

59   20

.55   41

.59    56

52    31

.51    31

55   57

.53   22

52   22

48    13

48   50

40   25

38  42
30     3

40  50

41   1
22     36

39  55
33     56

42  25
39     0

8    58

33    51
 

n,   M.

18    .30

17  20

18  44
16    ,38

16  32

17  .32
16    56
16     44

15  58

16  6
15     0
14   50
14     0
 

13  26

14  .58

14  22

15  16
14    52
12     36
14    22
 

H. M.

5 54
 

9   24

10    10

9    14

9    12

10   42

9    16

9    48
 

11 .34

9 50
 

Niewentyt has computed that in a second of a min¬
ute there fly out of a burning candle particles of
light ten millions of millions times more than the
grains of sand estimated to be contained in the whole
earth.
 

THE  PILOT'S MONUMENT  IN  aHEENWOOD.
 

THIS structure is one of the most at¬
tractive in that beautiful cemetery.
It commemorates the loss of a brave and
humane man. Thomas Freeborn was one
of those hardy mariners Avliose profes¬
sional duty keeps them almost perpetually
on the sea, and Avhose daring little barks
often meet the returning ship vA-hile yet
many leagues from port. He attempted
to bring in the ship John Minturn, in the
severe storm of the 14th February, 1846.
In spite of every effort, she was driven
upon the Jersey shore, and Freeborn,
Avith a large part of the ship's company,
Avas drowned, though close to the beach,
and Avithin hail of hundreds, who, unfor¬
tunately, could afford them no relief. His
brother pilots, with a liberality Avhich
does them great credit, reared this im¬
posing monument. On a sarcophagus,
which rests upon a massive base, is placed
a ship's capstan, Avith a cable coiled
around it. From this rises a mast, whose
truncated top is surmounted by a small
and Avell-executed statue of Hope, sup¬
ported by her anchor and pointing to the
skies. The front of the sarcophagus bears,
in relief, a ship and a schooner, mutilated
by the storm and tossed by the Avaves.
Its height and position make the monu¬
ment a conspicuous object from the bay,
and Avill often arrest the eye of the pilot
as he goes and comes on his hazardous,
responsible errands. If it remind him of
his OAA'u possible fate, it Avill also assure
him that the faithful discharge of duty is
never without its encouragement.

Locust Year.—Ts this year to witness
the return of the scA-enteen-year locusts?
"The oldest inhabitant" says: "I Avell
remember three locust years, 1792, 1809,
and 1826, and my father told me that he
remembered one in the year 1758, and
another in 1775. There being seventeen
years between each of these dates is
strong evidence that they return once in
seventeen years, and accordingly 1843 w-a»
locust year." If figures don't lie, 1860v/as
locust year, and 1877 should be another.