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8th Month. 



AUGUST, 1906. 



31 Day 5. 



Calculated for the Latitude of the Southern States. 



MOON'S PHASES. 



Full Moon 4d. 7h. Ora. Morn. I New Moon 19d. 7h. 27m. After. 



Last Quarter lid. 8h. 47m. After. | First Quarter 26d. 6h. 42m. After. 



Day of 

 Month and Week 



Sun 



Sun 



Moon 



rises 



sets 



sets 



h.m. 



h.m. 



h. m. 



CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS. 



Wednesday 



1 5 18 



6 54 1 



2 16 



Thursday 



| 5 18 



6 53 1 



3 15 



Friday 



1 5 19 



6 52 1 



4 16 



Saturday 



| 5 20 



6 52 1 



rises 



2 16 | Heroic death of Casabianca at battle of Nile, 1798. 

 First stone of Bank of England laid, 1731. 

 Columbus sailed from Palos, 1492. 

 Chicago surveyed and platted, 1830. 



31. Eighth Sunday after Trinity. 



Day's Length, 13h. 31m. 



Sunday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



Wednesday 



Thursday 



Friday 



Saturday 



1 5 20 



6 51 



7 56 



! 5 21 



6 50 



8 35 



5 21 



6 49 



9 11 



5 22 



6 48 



9 46 



5 23 



6 48 



10 19 



5 23 



6 47 



10 52 



5 24 



6 46 



11 27 



First trans-Atlantic cable message sent, 1858. 

 Alfred Tennyson, the poet, born 1809. 

 U. S. War Department organized, 17S9. 

 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. 



32. Ninth Sunday after Trinity. 



Day's Length, 13h. 20m. 



Sunday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



Wednesday 



Thursday 



Friday 



Saturday 



I 5 

 5 



I 5 

 I 5 



I? 



|5 



25 



6 45 I 



25 



6 44 1 



26 



6 43 j 



26 



6 42 



27 



6 41 | 



28 



6 40 



28 



6 39 | 



morn 

 

 

 1 



First town election in Chicago, 1833. 



4 | Cortez occupied City of Mexico, 1521. 

 41 | Cologne Cathedral completed, 1880. 

 27 I Lafayette arrived at New York, 1824. 

 13 I First steam voyage London to Calcutta begun 1825. 



4 I Frederick the Great, of Prussia, died 1786. 



| John Dryden made poet-laureate, 1680. 



33. Tenth Sunday after Trinity. 



Day's Length, 13h. 9m. 



19 

 20 



21 



2-2 

 23 

 24 



25 



Sunday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



Wednesday 



Thursday 



Friday 



Saturday 



1 6 38 



sets 



6 37 



7 19 



1 6 36 



7 57 



1 6 35 



8 35 



| 6 34 



9 14 



1 6 33 



9 54 



1 6 32 



10 37 



Pascal, French philosopher, died 1662. 

 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. 



34. Eleventh Sunday after Trinity. 



Day's Length, 12h. 58m. 



26 

 27 

 28 

 29 

 30 

 31 



Sunday 



Monday 



Tuesday 



Wednesday 



Thursday 



Friday 



5 33 



6 31 



11 21 



5 33 



6 29 



morn 



5 34 



6 28 



10 



5 34 



6 27 



1 5 



5 35 



6 26 



2 3 



5 35 



6 25 



3 4 



Great Eastern completed her first voyage, 1860. 

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

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

 Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, born 1809. 

 Archdeacon William Paley born, 1743. 

 Mt. Cenis tunnel begun, 1858. 



A.LENDAH 



August 22d— Ellul (year 5666). 



We Took First Prize for Araucarias at Last Flower Show. 



