Salt Lake Herald | 1891-11-29 | Page 20 | Curios of Fact

CURIOS OF FACT Science and Philosophy Bright and Diverting ThIngs Droll Odd Eccentric Singular Valuable Novel and Out of the Common It is quite important when speaking of the longest day of the year to say what part of the world we are talking about as will be seen by the following Hat which tells the length of the longest day in several places How unfortunate are the children in Tornea Finland where Christmas day is less than three hours in length At Stockholm Sweden it is eighteen and onohalf hours in len thAt th-At Spltzbergen the longest day is three and onehalf months At London England and Bremen Prussia Prus-sia the longest day has sixteen and onohulf hours At Hamburg in Germany and Dantzig in Prussia the longest day has seventeen hours At Wardbury Norway the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22 without interruption inter-ruption At St Petersburg Russia and Tobolsk Siberia the longest day is nineteen hours and the shortest five hours At Tornea Finland June 21st brings a day nearly twentytwo hours long and Christmas one less than threo hours in length At New York the longest day is about fifteen hours and at Montreal Canada it is sixteen hours I