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Show ALL U'A rCHECOMPASSES A few days ao I was standing by an Ano 1, can gentlemen, lieti i cxpiessed a.iiiio know which point was die j ii'.r-h. He at ..nee pulled out Ins iiii h aii!l. --ki-d at it and p.nted to he ;!-rih. I asked Inm whether be bad a compass attacked to his watch. "All watches," he u-phed, -'are compasses," Then he explained to me how this was, Point the hour hand to the sun and the south is exactly half wav betwi en t e hum and tue Uguie XI I on the watch For instance, suppo-e thai it a 4 o'clock. Point the hand indicating f..ui j to the sun and 11 . n the watch is exact ly south, Suppose that 11 is 8 o'clock: pooit ihc bacd indicating eight to the I sun, and li e figure X . .n the watch is j diies .tido y Ammcan tnend was jiii'.e sui prised thai 1 d d not ki i. I this i l-.n-.kinii veiv r. Ssi!!e 1 was -v- i nor, nt ot a lha.g thai eveiy one els. - I knew, and Dampening to meet Mi. S'.a-i-1 lev, 1 asked that eminent liavelei Woeih- I er he was awaie cf th.is simple nu de ..f ' d scoveiing the points of the compass, j He .-ii.l iui f-, never. . !,): ii ui it. I piesume, therefore, that the world is in the s' niie stale of ijjnoiance. Amalli is proud of having been the home ol the iuvcr.ior of the compass. i do not know what town boasts ot my American Iriend as a citizen. London TruUi. |