Show telling the time in egypt the tha working of the oriental mind was delightfully illustrated in a story which prof turner tot told the mathematical email ema cal association at london lie ile had been spending tho the christmas vacation in egypt to supervise the erection of a telescope at JId nuan capt lyons lyona who was in charge of tho the instrument ment said that be had found that at noun noon every lay day a gun ein ans fired and was anxious to know liow how the system worked accordingly he interviewed the gunner and asked how lie ho knew when togi to give the oil oh I 1 look at my watch said the official and how do you correct your watch asked tho c captain ap tain 1 I tako take it to the tha maker in calro cairo and he fells fella me the tha error forthwith capt lyons interviewed the watchmaker and asked him how bow he checked the error of the watch 1 I 1 get the correct time from the tha gun 6 said a id that thai simple craftsman and th thu time was told in egypt |