The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-26

adopt the "a O'Clock system. That is already
being worked up An the old watch dials
Will have 70 be replaced with - o'clock
dial All the clocks will have to be over
hauled TO keep ~ O'Clock time and strike
from O'Clock UP 10 "A O'Clock Why if |
had thousand boys ! would want to APP
prentice them right off 10 a jeweler, for by
the time they could learn the trade the "a
O'Clock boom Will have struck the country"
Here good-natured wag consulted his
watch and remarked that as il was nearly
Is O'Clock now he had better hurry home or
1t would be too dark for him 70 find the key
hole.
HOW LONG WAS YESTERDAY?
The crank was interested in the time only
because it gave him an opportunity TO
theori2e and figure on the possible differ
ence ii made on things finite and infinite.
He had groups figuring and guessing at the
length of the day ending at midnight last
night, from midnight Of Saturday night.
The debates on the question as 10 whether
there Is any difference IN the length of the
day as compared with the previous one
were as vigorously conducted as some of
the debates of the Lime Kiln Club. Some
contended that yesterday was "a hours
and Sc minutes long. Others heatedly
held that it was no longer, for
that while the City Exchange clock and
the Independent Presbyterian church clock
had been stopped thirty-six minutes the
clocks and watches that had standard time
kept running right along measuring the day
where the two clocks had left off, and that
the day was just twenty-four hours long,
as usual.
WILL HAVE TO FIX NEW HOURS.
There will be no little complication to-
day arising from the change of time for the
reason that the new time has not been an
ts,l,,,
been. The Superior and City Courts ad-
journed last week until this morning
at 10 O'clock but it is very likely that they
will now convene at $3.50 o'clock The
Superior Court grand jury when it last ad
jolrned fixed the hour of meeting to-day at
$3.50 o'clock. but Sheriff Roman informed a
MORNING NEWS reporter last night that he
thought they had better be at the court
house at 3 o'clock
The Mayors Court, usually held at s
o'clock, will doubtless, after this morning,
be held at 7:30 a. m.
The schools, which have opened at 8
o'clock heretofore, viii hereafter be called
at $50 clock
The sc eral disposition is to drop the six
minutes from the count in regulating the
substitution of the new time for the old.
SETTLING DOWN TO THE NEW TINE.
1t is believed that while there may be
some embarrassment IN adjusting the new
time to the satisfaction of the laboring
classes, that this embarrassment will be
transitory, and that the new order of things
viii soon harmonic all discordant clements
With the intelligent person there will be no
trouble. He will go to work as usual and
quit work As usual, the hours of labor be
ing the same, only measured by a time SO
minutes slower than heretofore, 50 that
while his time of going to work is appar-
emily later than before, it is no later in fact,
and while his days work is ended apparent
ly SO minutes earlier than BEFORE he quits
no earlier in fact. A day and night were
"A hours long before and are and will be
hereafter.