Why 1901 Seems Familiar to Him

1901

"It may sound odd to you," said a bookkeeper, "but the date 1901 seems already more familiar to me than 1900 ever did. You see, we don't get a cipher at the end of a year date but once in ten years, and we get two ciphers there only once in a hundred years. Practically no man ever sees more than once in his lifetime a year with two ciphers in it, and as a matter of fact it never gets to be familiar to him, and so 1900 seemed just about as strange at the end of the year as it did at the beginning, whereas a year running out with figures, to which we are accustomed, does seem familiar. Actually 1901 seems like an old friend, and I'm glad to see it." — New York Sun.