Dominical Letters...
Epact...

Solar Cycle..
Golden Number..
Roman Indiction.
Jewish Lunar Cycle..
Dionysian Period.
Julian Period......

New-Year's Day.

Washington's Birthday.

Independence Day..

Legal Holidays.

January Thanksgiving.
.February 22

..July 41 Christmas..

Eclipses for the Year 1872.

There will be four Eclipses this year, as follows:

1. A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, May 22; invisible in the United States.

Usually a Thursday in
November.
..December 25

2. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, June 5; invisible in North-America, except in Washington Territory and the Arctic regions.

3. A very small Eclipse of the Moon in the evening of November 14th and morning of the 15th; visible, being only one thirty-third of the Moon's diameter on the northern limb. See the following table:

4. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, November 30; invisible in North-America.

Planets Brightest.

MERCURY, January 27, May 25, and September 18, rising before the Sun; also April 2, July 31, and November 24, setting soon after the Sun. VENUS and MARS not this year. JUPITER, January 15. SATURN, July 9. The astronomical calculations in THE WORLD ALMANAC were made by S. H. Wright, Penn Yan, N. Y.

Jewish Calendar.