Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-12-06
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lnterss'n nown Man OF science.
~ II. Bailey makes the state
fro' + the Boston Journal OF Educls-
men, men Cha, n the day contains exactly
ton 'a .ah. hours, and that the week,
fOrsy.es seven times rs long as the
thous y. any one locality, is, upon the
day ,h !, Is a whole only four times as
earln 1--WE readily perceive" he says,
long the natural day travels around
una nth with the sun and never ends,
sas ss y1 day or daytime continually on
y O1 III Of the earth toward the sun
'ns n r,abt on the opposite hall. The
anu 10 - almanac day. travels the same
a aa.s and with the same speed and II 1t
va, - Mace for beginning or ending
nav .anld always be the same date.
W. will commence with the begin
~ II the first day OF the year. 1t Is
~. luz moment Of noon December 81 on
.no meridian of Greenwich. forenoon
y. Tho western hemisphere and after
noon over the eastern. Inc mean sun
wv a,actly in the south. and at that
omsnt the first day OF the new year
:. narn WhereP Not at Greenwich.
IT, civic day begins at midnight, and
!. Il midnight on the l80th meridian at
.sat moment. and there NV Years
d.y begins. As the sun travels west
~ from Greenwich across the At
,..,ic and America NewYear's marches
"astward across the Pacific and Asia,
cououerng the earth at the raA Of
o,o twenty-fourth part every hour.
D. The line the sun reaches the His
.i.sippi valley it is evening of the last
day Of the year in England. but Janu-
sry hold sway over one-fourth OF the
sarth-ihat lying l1fween the Goth
moridian east OF Greenwich and the
lSOth.
.six hours later, when the sun has
,,aveled half way around the earth
and il over the 1S0th meridian. New
yoar's has reached Greenwich and
.ways onr-half the earth In another
.,v hours the bells of the Mississippi
valley are ringing in the new year.
hit It has been on earth eighteen
bours. And in six more the sun is
.yaiu over the meridian Of Greenwich,
and New Years exists for single mo-
ment over the entire earth. But
Mother Earth does not stop her waltz
iuc nor old Sol his westward journey.
and the I'd day OF January puts in his
.npearance where the LIST did twenty
fur hours before, and Immediately
commences chasing his elder brother
around the earth at the rate Of more
than one tn usand miles an hour, the
chase continuing for exactly twenty
four hours. during which the portion
Of the earth under the sway OF Janu-
ary is continually decreasing and
that Of the I'd increasing
another N ethod Of presenting the
same facts may be considered better
Think of the days past and future as
threads each wound upon its own
spool and of sufficient length TIC reach,
when unwound around the earth at
the equator The spools are kept at
the lS0th merid an-those bearing
past dates have been used. future dates
awaiting their time, and always two
in use at once When it is noon at
Greenwich on the 3lst of Decembert the
spool bearing that date is empty ana
its thread girdles the earth Beside
it. rotating about the same axis (the
lSOth meridian), is the spool dated
January l. and at that moment some
power capable Of travelling l 900 miles
an hour seizes the end OF the thread
and flies Westward; the thread un-
winds. The other spool rotates at the
same velocity, but is winding up the
thread of December 81, dr. gging il
around the earth, the free end keep
Ing exactly even with the advancing
end Of January l. Each thread is ex-
actly twenty-four hours unwinding
and the same winding up again. and
the portion OF the earth LYNN north
and south OF the unwound part oil
each thread bears its date, conse-
quently each date exists upon the
earth for fortyeight hours. or little
more than two complete rotations OF
the earth upon its axis. 1t is eviden,
That the thread of any day has been
unwlnding seventeen hours when il
reaches the seventy-tifth meridian west
Of Greenwich, that it is twenty-four
hours dragging itself across the line.
and that it will be seven hours longer
before it is entirely wound upon its
spool and the date is past for the en-.
tire EARTH