The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-09
STRANGE THINGS FOUND OUT.
A Reader OF War News Tells Part OF
what He Has Learned OF
LatIfuAes.


war hugely"
"Our navy" assented Simpson, "is
winning. fame every day."
"Oh, don't mean that" corrected
Hawkins. "Tm proud of the navy and
of the army, too, of course. oh, yes,
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."
.sWe're all doing that" affirmed his
friend.
Every night l am studying the
maps" said Hawkins. 81 take my boys
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 SPANS are almost in the
same latitude? That's where I'm en-
toying this war. I'm looking up the
ATTITUDES, you know. When was in a
log schoolhouse back in Ohio didn't
dream there was so much geography
--wecalledit '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.
never suspected that there was any lat
itude or longitude on dry land, and
WIS 90 years old before / discovered
two places on the opposite sides of the
1. To- xx,1a
Just think. the two Toledos are about
the same distance from the equator.
Spnin's Toledo is in the land of lem
ons, oranges, wines and raisins, and
ours. only 90 miles further north, is
q thousand miles from lemon. This
war was something to me, II only to
make me brush up on my jogafy.
"Now. what place. Simpson, in this
country is on the same parallel with
Gibraltar"
4'Oh. suppose Minneapolis or Que
bee"
AHa!! Hal You're way off-colder
than Quebec itself. Why. Norfolk's
the place. Just think of it-Norfolk,
Toxic, Shanghai. Cashmere and Glib
raltar hang on the same clothesline.
Funny, isn't it?
'sNow, here's another, Simpson. Did
row 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.
] tell you it's glorious to look these
things up. and / never thought of
doing 1t until Dewey banged the Span
fish 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.
Nov, take London, Simpson; what
town over here is in the same lati-
tude?''
ut ought to be New York" )
"Well, 1t isn't. All England is fur
Their 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 scorcher now, Simpson.
There's Venice. Venice stood still and
the ear III turned round under ,wha t
places would get worms eye view
of Venice? You give it up. Well, north
Wisconsin, Simpson. Just think of it
up there in the land of sawmills and
dance houses, brook trout and cold
summers Venice andAshland! There
are 1900 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 IrkutslS,
in Kamschatka; Marseilles, in France,
is north Of Milwaukee; Portland, Me-,
is couth of Florence. Italy; Constanti-
norle, Omaha, Salt Lake City, Naples,
Barcelona, Providence, r. r., Chicago
and VladivostolS arc 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, fare
on the same parallel with Washing
ton?
Hawkins trembled.
simpson, I ought to know that. Tt
is important. But | confess don't
know. | haven't looked it up. How on
earth could | have overlooked that?
BY the way, remember Lisbon, MaIa-
ga. Smyrna and Bokhara are on a par,
so TO speak. That's the best / can do
for you just now, simpson,