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8th Month. 



AUGUST, 1905. 



31 Days. 



Calculated for the Latitude of the Southern States. 



First Quarter 7d 



Full Moon Ud 



MOON'S PHASES. 



4h 16m After. 

 9h 31m After. 



Last Quarter 23d 



New Moon 30d 



Oh 10m Mom. 

 7h 13m Morn. 



Day of 

 Month and Week 



Sun 



Sun 



rises 



sets 



h.m. 



h.m. 



Moon I 

 rises | 

 h. m. I 



CHROXOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS. 



Tuesday 



Wednesday 



Thursday 



Friday 



Saturday 



5 18 



6 53 



7 24 



5 19 



6 53 



8 9 



5 20 



6 52 



8 51 



5 20 



6 51 



9 53 



5 21 



6 50 



10 15 



Heroic death of Casabianca at battle of Nile, 



First stone of Bank of England laid, 1731. 



Columbus sailed from Palos, 1492. 



Chicago surveyed and platted, 1830. 



First transatlantic cable message sent, 1858. 



1798. 



32. Seventh Sunday after Trinity. 



Day's Length, 13h. 29m. 



Sunday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



Wednesday 



Thursday 



Friday 



12 Saturday 



6 50 

 6 49 



6 4S 

 6 47 

 6 46 

 6 45 



10 56 



11 39 

 morn 



24 



1 13 



2 4 



Alfred Tennyson, the poet, born 1809. 

 U. S. War Department organized, 1789. 

 Santos-Dumont's air ship successful, 1901. 

 Ashburton Treaty signed at Washington, 1842. 

 Greenwich Observatory begun, 1675. 

 Fulton's steamboat made its first trip, 1807. 



5 25 6 44 I 2 59 First town election in Chicago, 1833. 



33. Eighth Sunday after Trinity. 



Day's Length, 13h. 17m. 



Sunday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



Wednesday 



Thursday 



Friday 



Saturday 



5 26 



6 43 



3 56 



5 26 



6 42 



rises 



5 27 



6 41 



7 10 



5 27 



6 40 



7 45 



5 28 



6 39 



8 20 



5 29 



6 38 



8 54 



5 29 



6 37 



9 27 



Cortez occupied City of Mexico, 1 521. 



Cologne Cathedral completed, 1880. 



Lafayette arrived at New York, 1824. 



First steam voyage London to Calcutta begun, 1825. 



Frederick the^Great of Prussia died, 1786. 



John Dryden made poet-laureate, 1670. 



Pascal, French philosopher, died 1662. 



34. Ninth Sunday after Trinity. 



Day's Length, I3h. 6m. 



20 1 



21 I 

 22 



23 I 



24 I 



25 I 

 ^6 I 



Sunday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



Wednesday 



Thursday 



Friday 



Saturday 



5 30 



6 36 



10 1 1 



5 30 



6 35 



10 37 



5 31 



6 34 



11 15 



5 32 



6 33 



11 55 



5 32 



6 32 



morn 



5 33 



6 31 



41 



5 33 



6 30 



1 31 



Benjamin Harrison, 23d President, born 1833. 

 Statue of Lincoln unveiled in Edinburgh, 1893. 

 The yacht "America" won the Queen's Cup, 1851, 

 Cuvier, the great naturalist, born 1769. 

 The Czar called for Peace Conference, 1898. 

 First printing, a proclamation, in New York, 1693. 

 Great Eastern completed her first voyage, 1860. 



35. Tenth Sunday after Trinity. 



Day's Length, 12h. 55m. 



27 Sunday 



28 

 29 

 30 

 31 



Mond;:y 

 Tuesday 

 Wednesday 

 Thursday 



5 34 



6 29 



2 27 



5 34 



6 28 



3 26 



5 35 



6 26 



4 28 



5 35 



6 25 



sets 



5 36 



6 24 



7 28 



Caesar landed on coast of Britain, 55 B. C. 

 Trial trip of First U. S. railroad postofhce, 1864» 

 Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, born 1809. 

 Archdeacon William Paley born, 1743. 

 Mt. Cenis Tunnel begun, 1857. 



Jewish Calendar, Aug. 2 — Ab (year 5665). Fast of Ab, Ab 9, August 10, 1905. 



We took First Prize for Araucarias at last Flower Show. 



