Excerpt from The Illustrated Family Christian Almanac for the United States, for the Year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1867: Being the Third After Bissextile, and Until July 4th, the 91st Year of the Independence of the United States; Calculated for Boston, New York, Washington, and Charleston, and Four Parallels of Latitude Iowa City, Iowa Jefferson City, mo. Little Rock, Ark. Superior City, Wis. Des Moines, Iowa St. Paul, Minn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.