| Show from ons commissionaire longi longitude tide degrees west where two sundays come together to two sundays come rome together what non sense bense bensel said mrs Mr penn her best lest sharpes Shar pes pos needles in midair mid air stayed pointed due duie north uninfluenced by the local attraction of f the flati flatiron ron on the tha table beside her what none sense what do doyon dodou you yon expect to make out of such a head as tha tand and she pulled the last grey hair as she spoke mrs P E holds with captain priest that all the secrets secrets ee crets of navigation are aro contained in a small compass and are as easily learned as to bite a needle full of six cord nevertheless mrs penn is no navigator albeit she does compass much with willi a small needle she is seaman enough though to let go every thing and scud 21 when a squall strikes her ear from the tha second story back but we tle vie are aro taking too much latitude for our iongi longitude tude let us come back to our course thanks to common schools and aria the electric telegraph egra pil most longshoremen understand that a difference in longitude makes a difference in the time of day that a messenger going westward arrive arrives s A a at its destination before a its apparent hour of starting or as pat would ha have V a it i id d rache S st t louis before ye sint slut it from new york Orr eries lia lla have ve taught our youngsters that as the earth turns towards the sun at tit the point which is full face to tiie tha lum luminary biary blary it is 14 high noon moon while at one quarter of the earths circumference towards the west it is just at sunrise this difference of time is at the equator just jus t four minutes for each degree I 1 of 0 longitude equal to six hours three hundred and sixty minutes for the ilia ninety degrees or quarter circumference above noted thus at st louis fifteen degrees west of new york it is sixty minutes earlier than with us or eleven when it is twelve liere bere and a ship navigating the globe going thus gains on apparent time laps over on to the next day four minutes for each of the three hundred and sixty degrees degree of or twenty four hours in all in oher other words going west and carry carrying nig the day of the week oil on which he starts on om arriving back at her port on what to her is monday she finds that is tuesday there and she must skip from monday to wednesday to make up going eastwardly the casa is reversed and arriving from tile the west she writes tuesday on iier her log when tomorrow to morrow is tuesday to rie fie boarding officer the ship then doubles tuesday and cries quits but many seamen correct this seeming error on passing the halfway half way point I 1 ie e on reaching deg west or east of their thell i r governing meridian a dayis day is dropped or repeated and the ship arr rives without being in next week when she should be in this landsmann Lands mens mans ignorance of these thess facts cause caused bome some amusing scenes on steamers of the pacific the new orleans the first passenger steamer that ever crossed the tho pacific ocean was going from san francisco to sydney with a cargo of gold hunters including a few pike county nien men whose nautical education was limited our friend the purser had posted his usual bulletin of latitude longitude distance run etc always an interesting episode in tile the history ofa of a day on a sea voyage dated say I 1 monday the loth the next day it stood wednesday the the degree having been passed mean meanwhile while and the intervening day duly dropped the apparent blunder caught the eye of the eager vager readers at once halloo purser this youve made mada a mistake youve dated this wednesday yes sir right too right too wheres tuesday knocked out oll oil oh come now said gaid pike on oh the lookout look out for sailors tricks ricks on green hands bands that wont do you cant come that see here litre boys the pursers a regular horse hors ema e ma marine rin ego gone no and drop dropped eld t a day of the week bets bet were finally I 1 aken taken to be settled at sydney sidney and when the pilot boarded them tho the pagers papers showed the purser to ba be right 1 and that it was tile the in australia while pike fike wasa waga wag wasa day short in his almanac on agthe the other tack the golden age aga from sydney to panama on reaching the degree posted osted her bulletin sinday the eth and the next day tile the same here hero was another fuss the john bulls dills on board were especially disgusted with captain porter all humbug two sundays captain porter is a very clever man no doubt but that wont do dye see no yankee tricks on onus us the captain insisted with the intimation that that was waa the tile time when his notes fell due and lie he was ready to me meet them if presented and thus we have bave endeavored ored to explain how honest jack has ilas a real time in his bis eye and means what he says when he offers to accept your bill payable when two sundays come together |
