The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-11-08

Welcome 10 the kingdoms and welcome 10 the feast;
welssnas, brother captain, and welcome brother
Gained sae waves and ,osfu,ly oped.armsd he sees
Christ across ;he riSer rest beneath the trees.
2rs So w. '~t z
Homage 81 the o,den world. homage Of The new, :
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Stands sntdst his people beloved evermore.
HAY the Heavenly CsptaiR, when all our conflicts
Take u Ger the river to rest beneath the trees.
Where Two Sundays Come Together.
From ,Harpers Weekly, October 2sJ = /,
aWel, / never did" ~ z
saI know you never did, my dear bit you
NAV one OF these days, when our ship comes
I'm and we start on that round OF ours. We
can't very well start until that metaphoric
vessel does arrive; can't go out until she
comes In. You see, the sinews Of war are
also the muscles OF peace, and 1t needs q
well.developed financial Dlceps to enable one
to strike out effectively on such round"
"Wbat on earth are you talking OF! SAID
Mrs. Penn, aWith such jamble OF finance,
and pugillsm, and maritime affairs? IT
strikes me that your metaphors are slightly
mixed" 2 = ,g., 49, ~,
1.Weu, you said you never" a5.s4
ayes, I was going to say that never
heard of where two Sundays came together"
ssExact,y. And that Is what was talk.
ing Of. was about to explain it to you" =
ado you mean to say that there is such
place Z" -,
lido" ...,.....
sand timer"
"And time." # .
MlThen should like to know what be-
comes of The Seventh Day Of the strict Sab
batarians?" %s
"That is theological question, my dear.
Well not NEEDLE With it." -
"But how do they make two Sundays
come ,ogether?" tt.n"
-"Just ia that way precisely. They make
Fem come together. For instance, on board
q naval vessel, say, when the officer in charge
OF that duty finds by an observation that
the sun is precisely over the line Of the ships
meridian a. e., the point or degree Of longi-
tude east or west of Washington or Green
witch where she then is), he knows that 1t is
noon of that day TO landsman: to him it is
the beginning of next day., and reports ae-
cordingly to the proper officer, Eight bells,
SIR and receives reply, Make it so, sir, usu-
ally with the agreeable addition, sand pipe TO
dinner So IL is that the ships officer, upon
occasion. makes two Sundays come together,
or for the matter Of that knocks Sunday out
of the week altogether, according to circum.
Stances" ~
-"Knocks it out altogether? Only one
Sunday 10 two weeks Z"
Precisely. He can jump from Saturday
to Monday Ii he will"
Worse aud woise! Well, explain, please.
Let me understand the circumstances under
which these nautical gentlemen so cooily
double Sunday or drop it."
"Here goes, then. We were talking OF
that little proposed round of ours" ia
"Ob, yes !! What round:"
s"Why, round the world. Haven't we
been Specializing and castle-building on TAX
ing one of those through tickets for the yet.
to-be-fashionable tour, With lay.over coupons
for Chicago and San Francisco, and Yoke.
hama, and Hong-Kong, and Calcutta, and
Bombay, and Suez, and Brindisi, and Paris,
and Lopdon? Well, it depends on which
way we take that ticket, eastward or west.
ward, whether we lose day-Sunday it
may be az well az any otber-or make one in
our trip. 1t is usually on the Pacific ocean
that this gain or loss is made, because Wash.
ington or Greenwich being the given or 60.
verning meridisn from which American YES
sells calculate their longitude, it is only on
that ocean that they find the onc-hundred
and.eightieth degree, or halt.round the
world point, at which they effect the
CHANGE
eyes, I see that by the globe. Here is
the Observation-Disclosures degree west
or east OF Greenwich right in the middle Of
the Pacific ocean. Go on with your yarn."
"Thanks to common schools and the cleo
trio telegraph, most landsmen now under
stand that difference In longitude makes a
difference In the time of day; that message
going westward arrives at It's destination be-
fore its apparent hour of starting; or, as Pat.
would say. 'ipd rache st. Louis before ye STINT
it from New York. Orreries have taught
the sun, ct the point which is ful-face to that
luminary 1t is high noon, while at one quarter
Of the earth's circumference toward the west
It Is Just sunrise. This difference of time is,
at the equator, just four minutes for each
degree Of 1longitude-equal to- six hours
{three hundred and sixty minutes) for the
ninety degrees, or quarter circumference,
above noted. Thus at st. Louis, fifteen de-
grees west Of New York, 1t is sixty minutes
earlier than with US, or IL o'clock when it
Is - O'Clock here, and q ship circumnaviga.
ting the globe going westwardly thus gains
ON apparent time (laps over on to the next
day. four minutes for each Of the three hun.
bred and sixty degrees OF westing, or
twenty.four hours for the entire circuit Of
the earth. In other words, going west, and
keeping her record Of days from the day of
the week on which she starts, on arriving
back at her port on what to her Is Monday,
she finds that 1t Is Tuesday on shore, and she
must jump from Monday to Wednesday to
set herself right. Making the circuit east.
Wardly the case Is reversed, and arriving
from the west it is Tuesday on her hog,
while tomorrow is Tuesday to the boarding
officer. The ship then doubles Tuesday and
squares her record. 80 ss'tse z
"But most seamen correct this seeming
error on passing the halfway point-i. e., on
reaching the one hundred and eightieth de-
gree west or east OF their governing meridian
q day Is dropped or repeated, and the ship
arrives without being In next week or last
week when she should be In this. Lands
mems ignorance Of these facts has caused
some amusing scenes on steamers on The Pa.
cine. Some twenty years ago the New Or
ieans-ihe frst passenger steamer that ever
crossed the Pacific ocean-Was on her way
from San Francisco to IS dney with load of
golo.nunters, including some Pike county
men, whose nautical education was limited.
Ihe purser had posted his usual sdailr
bulletin OF latitude. longitude, and distance
run sincetbe previous nooa-alWays An in.
sefestiag episode Of the history of day on q
ong voyage dated, we'll say, Mondiy the
3 !0th. The next day 1t stood Wednesday the
LIN, the one hundred and eightieth degree
having nesn passed mean while, and the An.
terYening day duly dropped. The apparent
olunuef Caught the eye of the eager readers
Snyrn