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Show CORRECT TIME IN EGYPT. The working of the oriental mind was delightfully illustrated in a story which Professor Turner told the Mathematical association. He had been spending the Christmas vacation in Egypt to supervise the erection of a telescope at Helonan. Captain Lyons, who was in charge, of -the instrument, in-strument, said that he had found that at noon every day a gun was fired and was anxious to know how the system sys-tem worked. Accordingly he interviewed inter-viewed the gunner and asked how he knew when to fire the signal. "Oh, I look at my watch," said the official. of-ficial. "And how do you correct your watch?" asked the captain. . "I take it to the maker in Cairo and he tells me the error." Forthwith Captain Lyons interviewed the watchmaker and asked ask-ed him how he checked the error of the watch. "I get the correct time from the gun," said that simple craftsman. And thus time was told in Egypt. London Standard. |