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Show Where Sun. Jumps a Day. For many years wise men were constantly con-stantly asking the question: "Where does the sun skip a day?" It took a long time and a great deal of discussion to settle the question, but at last it was decided. Chatham island, lying just off the coast of New Zealand, in the South Pacific Pa-cific ocean, is the one habitable point of the globe where the day of the week changes. It is just in the line of de-markation de-markation between dates. There at high 12 Sunday noon ceases and Monday noon begins. Sunday conies into a man's house on the east s?de and becomes Monday by the time it passes out of the western do A man sits down to his noonday dinner on Sunday and it is Monday noon before be-fore he finishes it. There Saturday is Sunday, and Sunday is Monday, and Monday becomes suddenly changed inSoJeU witty" observer has said that peopTe w have lost much time ough to go to Chatham island, for, by taking tak-ing an early start there, they can always al-ways be one day ahead. |
