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6th Month,
1899.
JUNE— 30 days.
nopK NOT roR
illl'(.S.SlI!IT,ITlES.
THE MOON'S CHANGES.
New Jloon 8Ui, .
First Quarter ICtli, .
Fall Moon SSrcl, .,
Last Quarter aotli, .
20 inin. past 6 morning.
46 min. past 9 morning.
20 min. past 2 afternoon.
45 min. past 4 morning.
COMPARAISONS SONT ODIEUSES COM-
RUX
Woox
6
PARISONS ARE ODIOUS.
&Sets
3 51r
&Sets
'Rises
A.M.
<J
1
Th Corjms Christi.
23
2
F
"No Popery" Riots, 1780.
8 6s
41
24
•6
S
Duke of York born, 1865.
3 49r
8 8s
1
121
25
4
1st ^unDaij after Crinit^.
26
5
M
4. Viscount Wolseley born, 1833.
3 48r
145
27
G
Tu
" Waste makes want."
8 10s
2 15
28
7
VV
First Reform Act, 1832.
3 47r
2 53
29
8
'I'h
Death of Maliomet, 632.
8 12s
Sets
P.M.
•
9
i*'
Nero killed himself, 68.
3 46r
9 '^2
1
iOS
Sir Edwin Arnold born, 1832.
8 13s
3 45r
9 56
10 21
2
11
5?
^ittr c^xtittraiJ after Critttt^.
3
li^
M
" ne is rich that is satisfied:'
8 15s
10 42
4
13
Tu
Dr. Arnold born, 1795.
3 4.5r
11
5
U
W
13. Catalan!, Italian singer, died, 1819.
8 16s
11 16
6
15
Th
Fresh Water Close Season ends.
3 44r
1132
7
16
F
15. Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe born, 1812.
8 17s
1148
D
17S
St. Alban, first English martyr.
3 44r
8 17s
MorD.
6
9
18
5^
Sri ^xtntiau after Critttt^.
10
19
M
18. Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
3 44r
27
11
20
Tu
Accession of Queen Victoria, 1837.
8 18s
54
12
21
W
Proclamation Day.—Suvimer commences
3 44r
128
13
22
Th
Queen Victoria's Day, 1897.
8 18s
2 16
14
23
F
Battle of Plassey, 1757.
3 45r
nisfs
P.M.
O
24
S
St. John Baptist.— Midsummer Bay.
8 18g
3 46r
9 10
9 41
16
25
4tlj <§untraij after Sriniitj.
17
26
M
25. Kensington Museum opened, 1857.
8 19s
10 6
IS
27
Tu
" Frugality is an estate."
3 46r
10 28
19
28
VV
Coronation of Queen Victoria, 1838.
S 19s
10 47
20
29
Th
St. Peter, Apostle and Martyr.
3 47r
11 6
21
30
i^^
Samuel Rogers, poet, born, 1763.
8 18s
1127
C
WORDS OF THE WISE.
Pitch niion the liest course
of life and ciiscom will render
it tlie most easy.
Hicwfi" indulges in liberty of
speech will hear things, in
return, which he will not like.
Leisure is a very pleasnnt
garment to look at, but it is a
very bad one to wear.
Matches made in Heaven
frequently tiu-n out as if tliey
had bei-n matches made in the
oclier place.
"Pray to God," says Xeno-
phon," at the beginning of
thy works, that thou mayest
bring tliem to a good con-
clusion,"
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
" Tt is measures, vot men, tcewavt:"
snouted the stump spealier. " It isn't
avythivq of Vie Idnd " exclaimed an
up-to-date girl, and she left the place.
8.— Mohammed, when pursiicl by
his enemies, ere his religion h^d
gained a footing in the world, took
refuge in a cave. To the mouth of
tins ie:reat his pursuer.^ traced him ;
l)Ut when thry were on the very
point of cntciing, t! cir atieniion
was arrested i.y h liulc bird darting
from an adjoiuiiii,' thicket.
Had it not been lor i his circum-
stance, the most trisial that can
well be conceived, which convinced
them that here the fugitive could
not be concealed, M(diainnied would
have been discovered, and lie and
his doctrines would li:ivo perished
together. As it was, lie ctfecteJ
his escape, gained the protection of
his friends, and, by a most artful
course of conduct, succeeded in
laying the foundation of a religion
winch now prevails over a large
portion of the world.
ff.— Seneca, observing one day
that Nero was ready to sacrifice
many persons on the bare suspicion
of treason, boldly said to hiin. "No
matter how many persons you may
de.itro.v, you cannot destroy your
successor."
13,— Catalani's husband, a hand-
some )''rciicliman, was even more
unuitellectual than his wife — he
was stupid.
Once, having found the pitch of
the piano too high, she said, after a
rehearsal to her husband — -"I'li •
piano is too high ; will you see that
It is made lower before the con-
cert?"
When the evening came, Catalan!
was annoyed to find that the piano
had not he n altered.
'■■lud sent for the car-
declared that he had
I'o inches from each leg,
een ordered to do.
t can't he too high now,
said the husband, scoth-
U. r I. us
pciitcr, wl:
sawn ciff t\
as he had I
"Suiely
my dear!"
ingly.
14.— In the third week of every
June, the town of Buxton, in
Derbyshire, holds high holiday.
'J he springs and foiintaius are
decorated Avith hoards of quaint
and tasteful designs, in which
howers are lavishly used. Banners,
flags, and triun ihal a-chcs adorn
the streets, wiiile hands of music
ciili\-en the town, and many old
Kiiglish sports are revived for the
time.
This period of niirthfulness is a
survival of the ancient custom of
dressing once a year the mineral
and other wells for which Buxton
is famous.
15.— ^Irs. Beecher Stowe came of
a famous NewEiigland family which
has bctn settled in Conneci icut for
two centuries, and which has pro-
duced several famous divines, in-
cluding her late brother, the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher.
On the completion of l;er educa-
tion she joined her sister Catherine
at her school in Hartford, Connec;i-
cut— first as pupil and aftei wards as
teacher. There she remained until