The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-11
TWcnty-FOur Hour System
of Time Notation.
Some of the Advantages the
Ambldextr0us Enjoy.
AMan Who Has Taken His Degree
Ia Medicine al tn. Age OF IS.

graph and postal service. Belgium is the
second country TO adopt this sy stem, l'aN
having done so some time ago. In Cana'h
shr railroads have adopted it for the tiInc
fables of the extreme eastern and wesie. u
ids II h'y trans-contnental rsli"ov'
In quo uf tacse countries has tm system
been made obligatory on the peopic. lt
siinply adopted for government, olllolni
ana railway purposes, leaving ehc poople
10 follow or not, rs they choos,'. ~ cor
s,sts I'm progressive notation or tho
fours az tho dAy from one 40 twei ty four.
This would do away with tho expl. n.t tory
progxes or sGf,ixes \, NJ and l.. D., ana
tto hours would run straight along 10
twenty -four.
Tho old systom would ne translated into
tho now by leaving Oft the aplenuagc
!. m. nna adding twelve-for example,
o'clock p. M. would be IL o'clotk X,
o,lock Z. 10. 2l o'clock, and so or. sim
iarly the now system would he translated
in % tho old by subtracting twelve ana
lnnexl,i,: tho appendage p m, that u, %
O'Clock un,.c- tie new syssou would be
o'clock ?. m., 23 O'Clock would le III
O'clock n m, etc. The advantage clalmed
for tho twenty four hour notation Is that
IL would do away entirely with the vexn'
tiuus % IN. and p. IN. In all printed mat
ter IN railway time cards ana IN every
stool wlthout adding a. m, because there
would 1e TO III o'clock y. m. Hail past ~
o'clock could only moan ono thing, as
there would be no 10 o'clock at night
There would be- no confusion bstween j.
O'Clock noon and 10 O'Clock midnight, he
cause the latter would become % O'Clock,
indicating at u glance the end of the day.
III @ change is opposed 10 tradition and
custom, yet net more so than was the
adoption Of standard railway time, which
is now uni, ersnlly adopted throughout the
country.
Ambdextrous men and women, or
those who eau use either right or lett
hand with equal facility are not nearly so
frequently met with as might at trst be
supposed In fact, they are quite rare.
This double faculty, is, however, much
moro frequently met with among butchers
and sailors than in any other walks of
life Left handed butchers are numerous,
ss walk through any OF our large market
houses will quickly demonstrate, but 1t
10 very interesting study TO watch one of
them who will cut, chop, saw and handle
his meats without once changing II from
cne side to the other 'on the block or
changing his own position. In view ot
the many advantages derived from the
ability to useboth hands equally well many
people have often expressed surprise mt the
action Of educational authorities in insist
ing on the use of only the right hand, in
stead of trying to develop an equal skill
in the other They ali stick TO tho right
handed idea, however, and an old resident
of Frankford noted for his ambidoxtrous-
ness, is still mourning the loss CT a prizc
1t school through the use OF his left hand
In writing, although he was equally skill
ful as penman with his right.
The benefits derived from the use OF
both hands were excelenty illustrated in
the experience OF two carpenters who livod
Ia Frankford some years ago. Their names
wore Cross and Walton, and the former
was right handed, the latter left handed.
As one was also very tall and the other
very short, they made curious couple,
but they always worked together laying
floors and putting up joiners' work in
buildings.
They could take jobs Of this character
cheaper than any other because trey could
work from either end toward each ether
so bapdily. Cross would square floor
board at one end and Walton would
scribe" and cut Ii eft TO flt at the other
end aud thcn nail down, working together
from opposite ends Loft-handed
ua,hinists are always mt a disadvantage
as machinery is invariably adapted 10
reople who work righthnnded, but the
anhiaextrous man or woman is always at
homo In whatever work Is undertaken.
Caroline Sackruiter, young Germrn
woman, who lived for nearly three years
with tho family of Ferdinand kroener at
Beltzbcovcr, Pa. suddenly started for
home In the old country "a few DAYS ago
under circumstances OF an interesting
character When she rose on the morning
OF ihc day before she started she claimed
to huye u presSptiment that all was not
well with her younger sister Sho said
fhat In the early hours Of tho morning
she had teen awakened by hor sisters
voice calling her, In n plaiutive manner.
and that when she sat up and gazod
around her room she seemed 10 see pic-
tnre OF her home in the outskirts OF the
city nf Nuremberg, In Eav6rin. md that
on n couch, under lattice window.
which In her childhood DAYS had been tho
favoritc play spot Of herself aud sister she
eaw the sister lying with her arms out
str ucfc1 toward h-r. she told her
frlsnds. after tolling them of the cnll she
thought shc feard nnd tho vision she had
seen, thnt she was prepared tn tear bad
news from home. inside ~ three hours
she rsceiyed letter from her mother con
tanning the information that her sister
was fast dving Of oonsumpton. Caroline
lost TO time In Preparing 90 stIrt FOR
homs. she went To IIttshurg that after
noon and purchased her passage, and left
for New York TIE next day to sail on the
steamship Iser. of the North German
Lloyd line. for Bremen.
Prof. William Watts ~ still Poud hns
novelty IN the form Of n cold stove The
stove Is for use in the heated months Of
summer for reducing temperature Just as
stoves bcared by fire are used - raise the
temperature In winter. By tie use of
salt, a small quantity uf Ice.nnd ajpatcnted
chemical the most intense degree ot cold
~ secured. 80 great il the cold ihn; 10 H.
ae darQs Qsrous u touch This cold stove
when In operation as IL would bs % place
the hand on fire stove at a higher degree
of heat. The skin Is Instantly taken off.
and painful injuries nre the result OF the
slightest contact Prof. Watts states that
during the hottest weather the tempera.
ture OF room may be run down and