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Show Worth Knowing. Suppose a man leaves New York at noon on a given date and travels westward west-ward at such a rate of speed that the sun will always be directly overhead. After making s. circle of the globe he will reach the starting point in New York just 24 hours after he left it. The question presenting itself is, at which one of his different stopping places while making the circuit or the globe in 24 hours, carrying noon with him to every station, was he first informed that it was noon of the following day. As he crossed the meridian me-ridian of 180 degrees east, or west, of Greenwich the day would change. His tlrst stop after crossing the meridian would be Yokohama, perhaps; there he would learn that it was the next day. |