Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-02
TIME AND DISTANCE
Mass of Instructive Facts IN Figures.


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! later, via London, and in forty-three days
| via San Francisco.
Only eleven daysla are required to send
letter from New York to Brindisi, in Italy
Twenty-seven days are required to make
| the journey between New York and Senegal
To travel from New York to Dover in
wolves the crossing Of $3.50 knots of ocean.
Fourteen days are required for a letter to
| travel from New York to Athens via London
From New York to the mouth of the Congo
! river the mail route requires ffty-two days.
| Mail from New York City to the German
CGmeroons will be delivered in forty-four
| days.
Twenty-Five days are required for mail
| to pass, via Panama, from Callao to New
| York.
Only eleven days are required for letter
to pass between Copenhagen and New
York
From Warsaw the capital of ancient Po-
land, to our capital the distance is 4,Ol0
miles.
from Shanghai China, to Washington
| the distance by the nearest route is $500
miles.
letter requires sixteen days to travel
| between New York City and the Island of
crete.
The time required for New York letter
| to reach Iceland and be delivered is nineteen
days,
| letter mailed in New York will be de-
| vered at Cape Coast castle thrty-three days
| later.
Twenty-one days are required for a letter
posted in New York to be delivered in
Bahia.
Twenty-six days are required for the
journey between New York and Sierra
LeCne.
Thirty-eight days are required for letter
to go from New York to the Falkland
isiards
Letters from New York to Belize will be
delivered in nine days from the date of
mailing.
Mail from New York to Batavia will be de-
livered in forty-one days from the date of
| mailing.
In twelve days time the distance between
New York and St. Petersburg may be ira
versed
In eighteen days letter from Beyrout
Syria, will be delivered at its destination in
New York.
A journey of 5000 miles must be taken by
the traveller between Washington and Canton
China.
In twenty-seven days a traveller on mail
steamer leaving New York may arrive at st.
Helena.
journey between the Isle of Teneriffe and
New York.
Twenty-Seven days from the date of post
ing letter in New York it will be delivered
in Bombay.
BY the nearest mail route from ST. Louis
| to Mobile, Ala distance of SAB miles must
be travelled
2S3 miles.
Twelve days are required for mail from
New York to be delivered via London in
Barcelona, Spain.
Only twelve days are required for mail to
pass between New York and Carthagena,
| in Colombia
From Sydney, in Australia, to Washington
the distance by the nearest available route
is S963 miles.
The Italian immigrants who start from
Genoa must travel 4O59 knots before reach
ing the Narrows.
The steamer between New York and Mar
selles, in South France, travels 3S74 knots
during the voyage.
Shanghai may be reached from New York
via London in fifty-one days; via San Fran
| cisco in thrty-one
There are 3,4S5 miles of distance between
| the seat of government of Spain and that of
| the United States.
There are 700 miles of travel before the
railroad passenger who starts from st. Louis
to go to New Orleans.
A letter written and mailed in Jeddah,
Arabia, will be delivered in New York
twenty-one days later.
A traveller by mail routes may cover the
distance between New York and San Do
mingo City in nine days.
A traveller from Rangoon to New York by
the most direct route will accomplish the
journey in thirty four days.
Singapore may be reached from New York
via London in thirty-4even days; via San
Francisco in forty-two days.
Colored emgrants starting from Wash
ington to Monrovia, in Liberia would have
before them voyage Of 3645 miles.
A traveller by the most expeditions mail
route may traverse the distance between
New York and Rome in eleven days.
1t is said that the pilgrim to Mecca, start
ing from Washington City. would have to
travel 6,59S miles in order to reach the
Caaba
The voyage between New York and Ade-
lade, in South Australia, via London, re-
quires ffty-nipe days; via San Francisco,
thirty-four days.