FESTIVALS AND FASTS.ECLIPSES FOR THE YEAR.IN the year 1898 there will be six Eclipses,three of the SUN and three of the MOON.1. A PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON, January 7. Visible more or less to North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean. Occurring as follows: First contact of shadow, 11 degrees from south point of the Moon's limb toward the east.Magnitude of Eclipse=0. 157 (Moon's diameter= 1).A TOTAL ECLIPSE OFTHE SUN, January 22. Invisible to North America. Visible to central and eastern Africa, eastern Europe and Asia. Path of totality running through central Africa, India and the Chinese Empire.A PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON, July 3. Invisible to North America. Visible more or less to Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and to the eastern portion of South America. Magnitude of Eclipse = 0.934 (Moon's diameter =1).AN ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, JULY 18. INVISIBLE TO.North America Visible to the South Pacific Ocean and the southern extremity of South America.A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, December 13. Small and unimportant. Visible in the Southern Ocean.A Total Eclipse of the Moon, December 27. Visible more or less to all the continents of the world except Australia, and to the Atlantic Ocean. Occurring as follows:First contact of Shadow, 68 degrees from south point of the Moon's limb toward the East.Magnitude of Eclipse = 1.384 (Moon's diameter=1).MORNING AND EVENING STARS.MERCURY will be Morning Star about January 29, May 28, September 2r, and Evening Star about April 10, August 8, and December 3.VENUS will be Morning Star till February 15; then Evening Star till December 1; and then Morning Star again the rest of the year.Jupiter will be Morning Star till March 25; then Evening Star till October 13 ; and then Morning Star again-the rest of the year.CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES.THE SEASONS.