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8tli Month. 



AUGUST, 1903. 



31 Days. 





Calculated for the l,atitude of the Southern States. 





MOON'S PHASES. 



Fnil Moon 8d. 



Last Quarter 15d. 



2h. 

 llh. 



54m. 

 22m, 



Morn. 

 After. 



I New Moon 22d. 



\. First Quarter 29d. 



Ih. 51m. After. 

 2h. 34m. After. 



Day 



of 



Month and Week. 



Sun I Sun 

 rises sets 

 h. ra. 1 h. m. 



Moon 



sets 

 h. m. 



CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS. 



1 I Saturday | 5 18 j 6 54 | 1 [ Heroic death of Casablanca at battle of Xile, 1798 



31. Eighth Sunday after Trinity. 



Day's Length, 13h, 35m. 



Sunday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



5 I Wednesday 



hursday 

 Friday 

 Saturday 



5 



18 







19 



5 



•20 



5 20 1 



5 



21 



5 



•21 



5 



^•2 



6 53 

 6 52 

 6 o2 

 6 51 

 6 50 

 6 49 

 6 49 





 1 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 4 

 rises 



1731. 



First stone of Bank of England laid, 

 Columbus sailed from Palos, 1492. 

 Chicago surveyed and platted, 1830. 

 First transatlantic cable message sent, 1858. 

 Alfred Tennyson, the poet, born 1809. 

 U. S. War Department organized, 1789. 

 Santos-Dumont's air ship successful, 1901. 



32.* Ninth Sunday after Trinity. 



Length, 13h. 2Gm. 



Sunday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



Wednesday 



Thursday 



Friday 



Saturday 



5 22 



6 48 



7 31 



5 23 



6 47 



8 4 



5 24 



6 46 



8 39 



5 25 



6 45 



9 15 



5 25 



6 44 



9 52 



5 2(5 



6 43 



10 31 



5 26 



6 42 



11 14 i 



Ashburton Treaty signed at Washington, 1842. 

 Greenwich Observatory begun, 1675. 

 Fulton's steamboat made its first trip, 1807. 

 First town election in Chicago, 1833. 

 Cortez occupied City of Mexico, 1521. 

 Cologne Cathedral completed, 1880. 

 Lafayette arrived at New York, 1824. 



.33. Tenth Sunday after Trinity, 



Day's Length, 13h. 14m. 



Sunday 

 Monday 

 Tuesday 



19 I Wednesday 



Thursday 



Friday 



Saturday 



5 27 



6 41 



morn | 



5 28 



6 40 



1 



5 28 



6 39 



55 



1 5 29 



6 38 



1 54 



5 29 



6 37 



2 57 



5 30 



6 36 



4 5 



5 30 



6 35 



sets 



morn | First steam voyage London to Calcutta begun, 1825 

 Frederick the Great of Prussia died, 1786. 

 John Drydcn made poet-laureate, 1670. 

 Pascal, French philosopher, died, 1662. 

 Berjamin Harrison, 23d President, born 1833. 

 Statue of Lincoln unveiled in Edinburgh. 1893. 

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



34. Eleventh Sunday after Trinity. 



Day's Length, 13h. 3m. 



23 



SuL'day 



24 



Monday 



25 



Tuesday 



26 



Wednesday 



27 



Thursday 



28 



Friday 



29 



Saturday 



5 31 



6 84 



7 12 



5 32 



6 32 



7 55 



5 H2 



6 31 



8 36 



1 5 33 



6 30 



9 17 



5 33 



6 29 



9 58 



5 34 6 28 



10 40 



5 34 



6 27 



11 25 



35. Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. 



Cuvier, the 2:reat naturalist, born 1769. 

 The Tsar called for Peace Conference. 1898, 

 First printing, a proclamation, in New York. 1693 

 Great Eastern completed her first voyage, 1860. 

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

 Trial trip of first U. S. railroad postofiice, 1864. 

 Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, born 1809. 



Day's Length, 12h. 51m. 



30 I Sunday 



31 I Monday 



5 35 1 6 26 I morn 

 5 35 I 6 25 I 11 



Archdeacon William Paley born, 1743. 

 Mt. Cenis Tunnel beaun. 1857. 



Jewish Calendar, August 24— Ellul. Fast of Ab, Ab 9, August 2d. 

 We took first pri^e for Araucarias at last Flower Show. 



