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Show 7 ..,----- . t VOLUME IV. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 1. Plow the J Days Kollow each othor .Around the 'World. Suppose now we take a step to thj westward f Chicago. It is 4 A. M. at San Francisco and 1.30 A. M. at Honolulu. Hut all this Saturday, a civil dav hours long, and as QUESTIONS of time mid twenty-fou- r VV chronol ) rv a e always Mi- the civil day begins at midnight, zzling. When does a dav begin? it is evident that this particul r Where does Saturday or Sunday day was barn a little to the we. t Ik? 'in? Is Sanday universal over of Honolulu. Civil davs are the earth, or is it partly Sundav divided with two periods o! and partly Saturday and Monday tivelve hours each; hence all clock dials are divided into or some other dav? Is the same day of the month at twelve spaces of one hour each. New York and New Zealand, at To a person living at Honolulu, IJjinbiy and at San Francisco: then Saturday has just begun; to Let me say that there is always a )iie living in London it is noon day and night on the globe that f Saturday; to one living in is to say, somewhere perpetual Xew Zcalan I Siturd ay is nearly night around the world. The over and he is sleeping into Sunsun is always waking un the day morning; to a resident ol morning and chasing away the Chicago Sunday is eighteen hours shalows of li'iLclit. And night is awav, while to a Londoner it is always following up the day. ut twelve hours awav. Now it Where, then, does the day begin; s clear that by the lime Sunday Now suppose we begin our iuves icts to Honolulu, it is Monday Zealand. ligation of this subject ai .norniug at New Chicago, near the 90th meridian Though Honolulu and New Zeaof west longitude, on, say Sat land are not far apart in longiurlav in) ning at six o'clock, we tude, they are widely apart as shall find t'ie tiaij of New egards latitude, the one being Vork to be 7 o'lock A. M. : 10 in north and the other being in Hut latitude A. M. at the Azores in outh latitude. noon at London, 7.50 Iocs not affect time. The people P. AI. at Pekin, China, while at if Europe have observed their New; Zealand the day is drawing Sunday while the people of the to a close. Thus it is earlv united States are observing their to-da- y bil mid-Atlanti- c, morning at Chicago, breakfast time in New York, dinner time in London, and supper time in Pekin all the same day. Sunday, the people of Europe aic sleeping into Monday morning. It is evident, therefore, that for purposes of commerce and navi n NUMBER 17. 1893, gation there must be a beginning somewhere of a day, at some point on the earth a day must begin and end, that K the com mcrcial civil day; Saturday, for instance, the day we have just been des ciibing. The maritime powers of the w.rld have agreed to regard this 180th degree of longit ide from London (or Greenwich) as the point where the day changes. This meridian, therefore, leads Its passage under the the day. or midnight celestial meridian marks the beginning of anew day for the earth, here to lay becomes tomorrow. We have a new date for the month, and a new day for the week in It is here that the transition. Sunday Saturday ends and 180th ml begins. It is here, then, that Sun-la- y was born, just to the west of Honolulu, but bear in mind that the day travels westward; "there-fore- , day does not visit Honolulu until it has male the circuit of the round globe. Honolulu and New Zealand are this new-bor- n only about 30 degrees apart in longitude, but they are a whole lay apart as regards any parti-- , cular day, because the point at which the dav changes lies be-twe- them. Ethmrd 11. E. in GoldtiCftitp's en Cow-cl- U Geoyruphinil amtzine. The world last year consumed 11.803,000 bales of cotton. :, ; ; |