FEBRUARY: hath 28 days. 1865. Come when the rains hormo Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice Into the bowers a flood of light. Aspects, Holidays, Events, 1WPres. orders a draft for Snow. in 8. Purification. saile 3Fr. $5th. Florida Exp64. 2 Th. 4 Sa. from Port Royal, West Virginia, '64. C. Bat. near Moorefield, 5 A. 5thS.af.Ep. in 8. Cr.h. 8 W. 9 Th. 10 Fr. 11 Sa. 12 A. 13 Mo. Eng. ice trade, d., a. 81, 64. contribute 100,000 dollars. Farmer's Calendar. AQUARIUS, or the Water-bearer, the zodiacal sign for January, and Pisces, or the Fishes, the sign for February, as you see above, were named in Egypt some 2500 years before Christ, when these groups 6 Mo. & C. SE. Tudor, pioneer of New of stars rose soon after sunset in 7Tu. 5th. Disastrous fire in Hartford: Colt's these months. At the same time 2 pistol factory nearly destroyed, '64. the Nile overflows its banks, so sta. Reception of veterans 19th Mass. in Boston, '64. that on one group was called the 69 une e Blustering. Water-bearer (Aquarius), and asCol. N. G. Taylor, of E. Tenn., Hi.t. sociated with January, and the appeals on behalf of its suffering citizens. People of New Eng. other, the Fishes (Pisces), which Septuagesima S. Quite fine the flood, was associated with Febnaturally followed the course of in Apogee. again. ruary. In those days, at the ear14 Tu. St. Valentine's Day. liest dawn of science, these names, in Aph. Expect therefore, had their significance, in h. Farragut's fleet att. Fort the valley of the Nile, if no where else; but with our lakes and streams ic, at Charleston, by rebel torpedo, 64. all locked in ice, and our hills and Siege of Vicksburg com. rain or plains all cloaked with snow, a Sexagesima S. Low tides. girl on skates, or a polar bear, 62. Cr.1. Bat. of Olustee, would be quite as it signs for Florida. 64. these months. Still it is an inter18th. Most of business part of Glouces ter, Mass., destr. by fire, '64. esting fact, that, as the fishes are 19th. Recep. of veterans of 25th snow. handed down to us as the sign for February, the young trout of our mountain streams and lakes are hatched about the first of this 23 Th.20th. Recep. vet. 24th Mass. Vol. 24 Fr. C. St. Matthias. gr. elong. E. Fine for month, the eggs having been laid in Per. H. ti. eight or ten weeks ago, in a smooth Dogist, cock gravel basin, scooped out by the male, just as every farmer's boy has seen near the shore of a quiet shallow stream, Dr. Edw. Hitchcock, the season. by the bream or other fish. But fishes have but little to do with the farm work for this month that I was going to speak about. Do up the chores, chop wood, and remember the soldier. m. Days. d. MARCH, third Mouth. · Astronomical Calculations. m.Days.d. m. Days. d. m. Days, d. m. 123456 7 S.22 7 5 3 13 2 42 19 0 S.20 25 6 38 30 3 59 2223∞∞ 1 25 49 12 35 > First Quarter, 4th day, 7h. 34m., morning. Rises. Sets. Length Day's D of Days. Incre. k. m.h. m.h. m. h. m. 1 W. 6 365 5111 152 1112 2 Th. 6 34 5 52 11 18 2 4 2 1 2 26 n'k 10 52 3 42 5| 2 52 4 37 6 3 44 4 12 arm morn. 5 32 7 8 9 |