The Springfield (Massachusetts) Jlc
publican thus disposes of a popular
error: “If it fifty-seven
minutes fdr rt telegram starting from
London, to make the circuit of the
world and return to that point, then
it -will reach London exactly fifty
seven minutes after it started, and*x>n
the same day. Thejdea of its beating
time its absurd. It gains upon time
in thfe first half of the circuit of the
earth, but just as much as it. moves
more rapidly than the earth on its axis
in the opposite direction, and it loses
in just the same proportion in the last
half of the circuit. If it starts in the
other direction and moves with the
earth, the process will .be reversed ; it
will first lose time and then gain the
same amount, n inus the actual time
made in completing the entire circuit.
Job was wot great on lightning, but it
is too bad to attach his splendidpoetry
to our crudities.
The Bristol (England) Times copies
from another local journal, not named,
the following story , A young lady,
accompanied by a; lady soniewh:d older
than herself, was at her request shown
into the smoking carriage of a down
train at the Bristol station, and imme
diately on taking her seat the younger
“person” lighted a cigarette which
she had taken. from her case, and
puffed it with manifest enjoyment.
