25 minutes after 1
I now use the following , which I find almost exactly correct . `` Multiply the age of the President by the number of statute miles from the equator , divide by the number of pages in the given Constitution ; the result will be the length of the outbreak , in days . This formula includes , as you will see , an allowance for the heat of the climate , the zeal of the leader , and the verbosity of the theorists . The Constitution of 1823 was reproclaimed on the 25th of October last If you will give the above formula into the hands of any of your clerks , the calculation from it will show that that government will go out of power on the 1st of February , at 25 minutes after 1 , P.M. Your choice , on the 2d , must be therefore between Vibeira and Estremadura ; here you will have no difficulty . Bobádil -LRB- Vibeira 's principal -RRB- was on the 13th ultimo confined under sentence of death , at such a distance from the capital that he can not possibly escape and get into power before the 2d of February . The ` Friends of the People , ' in Oronoco , have always moved slowly ; they never got up an insurrection in less than nineteen days ' canvassing ; that was in 1839 . Generally they are even longer .