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Show The Longest Day. . It is quite important, vvhon speaking1 of the longest day of the year, to say what part of the world we are talking about, a3 will be seen by the following list, which tells the length of the longest long-est clay iu several places. How unfortunate unfortu-nate are the children of Torna, Finland, Fin-land, where Christmas day is less than three hours in length. At Stockholm, Sweden, it is eighteen and one-half hours in length. At Spitzbergen the longest day is three and one-half months. At London, Eng., and Bremen, Bre-men, Prussia, the longest day has sixteen six-teen and one half-hour3. At Hamburg, in Germany, and DantIg, in Prussia, the longest day has. seyenteen hour.?. At Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts from Ma3T 1 to July 22 without interruption. At St. Petersburgh, Russia, Rus-sia, and Tobolsk, Siberia, the longest day is nineteen hours and the shortest five hours. A.t Tornea, Finland, June 21 brings ft day iiearly twenty -two hours long, and Christmas 0146 less than three hours in length. At Xew York the longest day is about fifteen hours, aud at Montreal, Can., it is sixteen six-teen hours Kansas Farmer. |