Paris, March 3.—The year 1895 will be a remarkable one, both from the astronomical and religious point of view.
On Good Friday next (April 12), the heavenly bodies which gravitate round the sun will be in exactly the same position they occupied in the firmament the day Christ died on the cross. It will be the first time such a thing has occurred since that great day, just 1,862 years ago.
That was the thirty-third year of the Christian era, which dates from the birth of Jesus Christ.
At 4.20 in the morning, Paris time (about 11.20 p. m. on April 11, New York time), the moon will pass before Virginis (Spica), and hide that constellation for over an hour.
Virginis, or Spica, is a star of the first magnitude, situated in the constellation Virgo (a virgin).
