The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-07
STRANGE THINGS FOUND OUT.
A Reader Of War News Tells Part OF
what He Has learned.

From the Washington Star.
II tell you" exclaimed Hawkins.
joyously. as he sat down by Simpson
in the car and unfolded the stab pa
pah' he had just bought, Il am en-
joying this war hugely"
"our navy" assented Simpson, sis
winning fame every day"
"Oh. I don't mean that" corrected
Hawkins. I'm proud of the navy
n of the army. too, of course. Oh,
yes. I used TO belong to the army, and
my wife's uncle was in the navy. But
/ am getting a great deal of pleasure
out of this war by brushing up my
geography.
We're all doing that" affirmed his
friend.
Every night am studying the
maps" said Hawkins. II take my
boys geography out on the front steps
and from the momen / get the grass
wet down till the firefies bring the
twilight ] am at it.
And. by the way, do you know u
Toledo n SPANS are almost in the
same latitude? That's where I'm en-
joying this war. / am looking up the
attitudes. you know. When | was IN
a log schoolhouse back in Ohio / didn't
dream. lntTt was So ilutn. III SNobioB's
we called IL 'jogafy.' Teacher and all
did that. We learned the definitions Of
latitude and longitude and were old
that they were of use to mariners TO
find out where they were at sea. I
never suspected that there was any
latitude or longitude on dry land. and
7 was 20 years old before | discovered
two places on opposite sides OF the
earth could have the same latitude.
- N hnHNt
the same distance from the equator.
SPANS Toledo is in the land of lem
ons, oranges, wine and %raisins, and
ours. only 90 miles further north, is a
thousand miles from n lemon. This
war was worth something to me. IL only
TO make me brush up on jogafy.'
Now, what place. Simpson, is this
country on the same parallel with
Gibraltar"
"Oh, | suppose Minneapolis or Que
bee"
"Ha, ha, you're way of-colder
than Quebec itself. why. Norfolk's
the place. JUS think OF it-Norfolk,
Toxic. Shanghai, Cashmere and Gil
braItar hang on the same clothes line.
Funny. isn't ii?
Now. here's another. Simpson. Did
you suspect hat the Canary Islands
and Mount Sinai were IN the same lat
itude? Or Delhi, Foo Chow and New
Orleans? Well, they are, all OF EN-.
I tell you it's glorious to look these
things up and I never thought of do
ing 1t until Dewey banged the span
ish all to pieces at Manila.
"See here. simpson, did o know
Cairo. the Puniaub. the Blue sea and
the northern part of the Desert OF Sa-
hara were on that same parallel with
New Orleans. Delhi, FOO Chow, Mount
Sinai and the Canaries? Well, they
are.
"Now. lake London, Simpson: what
town over here is in the same latl-
tude?'
1T ought to be New York"
"Well, il isn't. All England is fur
Their north than any part of tbs Unit
ed states, except Alaska. The Aleutian
islands and winnipeg. up in Manitoba,
are in the same class with London.
Here's a scorcher now, Simpson.
There's Venice. If Venice stood still
and the earth turned around under her
what place would get a worms eye view
of Venice? You give 1t up. Well, north
Wisconsin, Simpson. lust think or 1t
up there in the land of saw mills and
dance houses, brook trout and cold
Venice and Ashland! There
are 1000 miles of difference in the eli
mate of those places. Minneapolis and
st. Paul. too, would see Venice as they
rolled under.
New York and Pekin are on the
same line. and Edinburgh and lrkutsk,
in Kamschatka; Marseilles, in France,
is north of Milwaukee; Portland, Me,
is south of Florence, Italy; CONSTANT
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 looking up
on these things"
what places" asked Simpson, ARE
on the same parallel with Washing
TOM"
Hawkins trembled.
simpson. | ought to know that. 1t
is important. But l confess | don't
know. | haven't looked 1t up. How On
earth could | have overlooked that?
BY the way, l remember Lisbon, Mala-
ga, Smyrna and Bokhara are on a par,
so to speak. That's the best l can do
for you just now, Simpson"
The car stopped, and with 1T Haw-
kin's string of ATTITUDES. He had come
to his street.
I'm look that up, simpson he said
as he landed or the asphalt, Just as
soon as | get the lawn s~prinkled. To
think l shouldn't know all about my
own latitude by this time. It's simply
dense ignorance"