The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-27
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A STUDY OF LA1ITUDEs.
Astonishing Things Discovered by n
Student of the War.
From the Washington Star.

Student of the War.
From the Washington Star
Il tell YOU" exclaimed Hawkins, joy
ousiy as he sat down by Simpson in the
car and unfolded the Star papah' he
had just bought, Il am enjoying this war
hugely"
Our navy" assented Simpson, 'fs win
ming fame every day"
"Oh, don't mean that" corrected Haw-
kins I'm proud of the navy-and the
army, too, of course. Oh, yes, | used TO
belong to the army, and my wife's uncle
was In the navy. But I'm Ceiling a
great deal of pleasure out of this war BY
brushing up my geography"
friend
Every night am studying the maps
said Hawkins. 81 take my boys geogra-
ply out on the front steps, and from the
moment l get the grass wet down till the
firefiies bring the twilight l am at it.
Ana, by the way, do you know our To-
Iedo and SPANS are almost i'm the same
latitude? That's where I'm enjoying this
war. I'm looking up the attitudes, you
know. When ] was in a log school house
back IN Ohio didn't dream there was SO
much in geography-we called il jogafy.'
Teacher and all did that. We learned the
definitions Of latitude and longitude and
We're told that they were of use TO mari
ners to find out where they were al sea 1
never suspected that there was any lati-
tude or longitude on dry land, and was 20
years old before / discovered two places
on opposite sides Of the earth could have
the same latitude. Just think, the two
Ioledoes are about the same distance from
the quator. SPANS Toledo is in the land
OF lemons, oranges Wine and raisIns, and
ours, only ninety miles further north. is
a thousand miles from a lemon. This war
was worth something to me- if only to
make me brush Up on 'jogafy'
Now what place Simpson, in this
country is on the same parallel with Gil
braitar?"
"Oh, I suppose Minneapolis or Quebec"
la! Ha! You're way off-colder than
Quebec itself. Why. Norfolk's the place.
Just think Of it-Norfok, Toxic. Shanghai.
CASHMERE and Gibraltar hang ON the same
clothes line. Funny, isn't it?
Now here's another. Simpson. Did YOU
suspect that the Canary Islands and
Mount Sinai were in the same latitude?
or Delhi, Foo Chow and New Orleans?
Wen, they are. ali of 'em. l tell you it is
glorious to look these things up. and I
never thought of doing il until Dewey
banged the Spanish all to pieces at Manila.
See here, Simpson. Did you know Cairo.
the Punjaub the Blue sea and the northern
part of the Desert of Sahara were on that
same parallel with New Orleans. Delhi.
Foo Chow, Mount Sinai and the Canaries?
Well. they are
Now, take London, Simpson, wha,
town over here is on the same lattftude?''
1T ought to be New York"
Wei, 1t isn't. All England is further
north than any part of the United States
except Alaska. The Aieutian Islands and
winnipeg, up In Manitoba are in the same
class with London
Here's a scorcher now, Simpson. There's
NGnln9- Npni0n CT a-tfl
turned round under her, what places would
get a worms eye view of Venice? You
give II UP. Wen, North Wisconsin. Simp-
son, Just think of it-up there in The land
of saw mills and dance houses. brook
trout and cold summers. Venice and Ash
land! There are 1000 miles difference in The
climate of those places. Minneapolis and
ST. Paul, too, would see Venice as they
rolled under.
New York and Pekln are on the same
line and Edinburgh and Irkturk. in Kan
schatka; Marseilles, in France. is north of
Milwaukee; Portland, Me, is south of
Florence, Italy; Constantinople. Omaha
Salt Lake City Naples, Barcelona, PROV.
idence, r. l.; Chicago and Vladlvoseok
are on the same string of beads Thank
God Dewey whipped those Dagoes and set
me to booking up on these things"
What places" asked simpson "are on
the same parallel with Washington?,
Simpson, l ought TO know that 1t is
important. But confess l don't know I
haven't looked 1t up. How on earth could
have overlooked that? BY the way, I
remember Lisbon, Malaga. Smyrna and
Bokhara are on a par, so to speak That's
the best can do for you just now. Slnp-
SON"
The car stopped, and with it Hawkins
string of attitudes. He had come to his
street.
'I'll look that up, Simpson" he said as
he landed on the asphalt, just as soon as
l get the lawn sprinkled. To think 1
shouldn't know all about my own latitude
by this time It's simply dense lgno-
rance"