The Van Buren press., 1898-10-01
STRANGE THINGS FOUND OUT.
Reader of War News
What He Has Learned OF
IatituGfs.

aI tell vou." exclaimed HaWklhs, joy
o,sry as he sat down by Simpson IN
the car and unfolded the "Stah papah
he had lust bought, IA am enjoying this
Our navy" assented Simpson, lis
winning fame every day"
"Oh. don't mean that" corrected
Hawkins. I'm proud of the navy and
of the army, too, OF course. On yes l
used to belong TO the army, and my
wife's uncle was in the navy. But am
getting a good deal of pleasure out OF
this war by brushing up my geog-
raphy."
Were all doing that" affirmed his
friend
Every night l am studying the
mans" said Hawkins. 81 take my boy S
geography out on the front steps and
from the moment | get the grass wet
down till firefies bring the twilight
| am at it.
and, by the way, do you know our
Toledo and Spain's are almost in the
same latitude? That's where I'm en-
loving this war. I'm looking up the
latitudes, you know. When l was in a
log schoolhouse back in Ohio l didn
dream there was so much in geography
we calledit 'jogafy.' Teachers and all
did that. We learned the definitions
of latitude and longitude and were
told that they were of use to mariners
to find out where they were at sea, L
never suspected that there was any lat
itude or longitude on dry land, and
was 20 years old before | discovered
two places on the opposite sides of the
earth could have the same latitude.
Just think, the two Toledos are about
the same distance from the equator.
Spain's Toledo is in the land of lem
ons. oranges, wines and raisins, and
ours. only 80 miles further north, is
a thousand miles from a lemon. This
war was something TO me, if only to
make me brush up on my jogafy.'
"Now, what place, Simpson, in this
country is on the same parallel with
Gibraltar"
"Oh, l suppose Minneapolis or Que
bee"
Hal! Ha! You're way off-colder
than Quebec itself Why, Norfolk's
the place. Just think of it-Aorfolk,
Toxic, Shanghai, Cashmere and Glib
raltar hang on the same clothesline.
Funny, isn't it2
Now, here's another Simpson. Did
you suspect that the Canary islands
and Mount Sinai were in the same lati-
tude? Or Delhi, Foo Chow and New
Orleans? Well they are, all of 'em.
I tell you it's glorious to look these
things up, and / never thought of
doing it until Dewey banged the Span
+ ish all to pieces at Manila.
"see here. Simpson. Did YOU know
Cairo the Puniaub, 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; what
town over here is in the same lati-
tude?"
at ought to be New York"
"Well it isn't. All England is fur.
ther north than any part of the United
States, except Alaska. The Aleutian
islands and Winnipeg, way up in Mani
toba, are in the same class with Lon
don.
Here's a scorcher now, Simpson.
There's Venice. If Venice stood still and
the earth turned round under her,what
places would get worms eye view
of Venice? You give it up. Well. north
Wisconsin, Simpson. just think of il
up there in the land of sawmills and
dance houses, brook trout and cold
summers. Venice andAshland! 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 Peking are on the
same line, and Edinburgh and Irkutsk,
in Kamschatka; Marseilles, in France,
is north of Milwaukee; Portland, Me-,
is south of Florence. Italy; Constanti-
nople, Omaha, Salt Lake City, Naples,
Barcelona, Providence r. l., Chicago
and Vladivostok 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 Washing.
tonP"
Hawkins trembled.
simpson, | ought to know that. II
is important. But I confess | don't
know haven't looked it up. How on
earth could | have overlooked that ?
by the way, I remember Lisbon. Mala.
ga, Smyrna and Bokhara are on par,
so to speak. That's the best | can do
for you just now, Simpson"
The car stopped, and with it Hawk.
ins' string of latitudes. He had come
10 his street.
I'll look that up. Simpson" he said
as he landed on the asphalt. "iust as
soon as l get the lawn sprinkled tn
think | shouldn't know all about INV
own latitude by this time! It's s,mnlv
dense ignorance. ."-Washington Even.
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