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CREEN‘v‘JiCH WHICH TELLS US
WHAT O’CLOCK IT IS.
"l. 11' V' 1 ions Instruments Employed by the
S('*i1:1list~i in Charge of the Great 0])-
5e: ":1 .'tm 1 ~Tllc Point Whose Longitude
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lo. ttiess every student of geogra-
ph} has had his curiosity aroused
'cgording Greenwich Observatory,
whence longitude is reckoned and
where the walld sets its timepieces;
and has been desirous of learning more
about the dwelling place of “Longi-
tude Naught” and the chronometer
that regulates the clocks of the world.
The purpose of this article is to grat-
ify such curiosity and to describe,
briefly, some of the wonders of the
great observatory.
The most important room of the
whole observatory is the transit room.
Four broad stone pillars occupy the
greater part of the space of this room.
Two of these pillars are "tall, as well
as broad and massive. They stand
east and west of the center of the room
and carry between them the Transit
qircle. Here is the home of "Longi-
tude Naught”; for the optical axis of
the great telescope of the transit circle
marks the exact spot crossed by the
prime meridian of the world.
to the north and one to the south oi
the transit circle, mounted on the
two remaining pillars and both on the
line of the optical axis or the transit
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There are two SOmewhat different
senses in which the meridian of Green-
w1ch is the standard meridian of near-
ly the entire world. It constitutes the
fundamental line whence distances
east and west are measured; and it
gives the time to the world.
It will be interesting to note how
time is found. '
The great telescope, already de-
scribed as occupying the center of the
transit room, is very solidly mounted.
Its pivots are supported by the pair of
great stone pillars, whose foundations
go deep down under the surface of the
hill; and it turns but in one plane,
that of “Longitude Naught.” On the
west side of the telescope, and rigidly
connected with it, is a large wheel,
with a number of wooden handles fas-
tened to it, like the steering-wheel of
a large steamer. This wheel carries
the setting circle, which is engraved
on a band of silver let into the face and
back of the wheel near its circumfer-
ence. Eleven microscopes penetrate
through the pier, and are directed at
the circle on the back of the wheel.
These are the instruments used in
finding time.
Time is usually determined by the
watching of passing stars. The stars
are used for this purpose, because they
are many and the sun is but one. If
clouds hide the sun at noon, the only
time when it can be observed to de-
termine time, a day is lost; but if one
star is covered by a cloud there are
' still many others than can be ob.
served; Star transits can be taken at
various times throughout the day and
night, while the sun can be used only
once a day.
About two minutes before the ap-
pointed time the operator takes his
place at the eye-piece of the telescope.
As he looks in he sees a number of
vertical lines across his field of view.
These are spider-threads placed in the
focus of the eye-pierce. . Presently a
bright. point of silver light comes mov-
ing quickly, steadily onward. The
watcher's band now seeks the side 01
me tellkope till his finger finds a little
button, over which it rests ready to
strike. On comes the star “without
haste, without rest” till it reaches one
of the gleaming threads. Tap! The
finger falls sharply on the button. In
mice or four seconds later the star has
reached another thread. Tap! Again
the button is struck; and so on until
the, ten threads have been passed and
the transit is over.
Now what have the finger taps done!
Each tap completed, for an instant, an ‘
electric circuit and recorded a mark
on the “chronometel'.” This is a
large metal cylinder covered with pa-
per, and turned by a carefully regu-
lated clock once in every two minutes.
A similar mark is made once in every
two seconds by a current sent by
means of the- standard siderial clock
of the Observatory. If, then, one ol
the clock dotsand one of the observer‘s
dots come exactly side by side, it is
known at what precise second the star
was on one of the wires, as the spider
threads are called. If the observ-
er’s dot comes between two clock dots,
it is easy, by measuring its distance
from them with a dividing scale, to tell
the instant the star was on the wire to
the tenth part of a second. Since the
transit was taken over ten wires ahd
the' distance of each wire from the
center of the field of view is known,
practically ten separate observations
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Two -
other telescopes are in the room, one'
have been made, and the average of
these gives the time of transit.
At the Observatory there is a great
clock, called the siderial clock. which
registers twenty—four hours in the pre-
cise time that the earth rotates once on
its axis, or the time when a given star
would again appear on a fixed melid-
ian. Hence, since the exact time is
known when the star ought to be on
the meridian, this clock can be read«
ily checked by the observations of star
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THE CHRONOGRAPH.
The error of the clock is determined
twice a day, shortly before ten o’clock
in the morning and shortly before one
o’clock in the afternoon. These two
times are chosen because, at ten and
one o ’clock signals are sent to all the
great provincial centers. Also at one
o ’clock the time ball at Greenwich and
at Deal are dropped, so that the cap-
tains of ships within sight of the drop-
ping-mast may set their chronometers.
Thus is time found and regulated at
the great Observatory.
The rating of chronometers for the
Royal Navy is one of the most import~
ant duties of the Observatory. Here
they are carefully tested until their
time keeping qualities are as perfect
as human skill can make them.
There is little of the picturesque or
sensational in the regular routine work
of the Observatory. The daily observa‘
tion of the sun and of many stars—call-
ed clock stars, the determination of the
error of the standard clock and its cor-
rection twice a day, the sending out
of time signals, the care, winding and
rating of hundreds of chronometers
and the determination, from time to
time, of the exact longitude of foreign
and colonial cities make a. ceaseless
round of work. Yet there is a charm
in it all to those who delight in the
handling of delicate and exact instru-
ments which renders its dreary routine
fascinating.
,x.
A Cautious Mun.
“It’s a. good thing to be cautious
when among strangers,” said the pre-
cise-looking man to “a tall, angular
old fellow, to whom he was talking on
the deck Of an Atlantic liner.
“Yes,” was the response, “you can’t
always tell who you’re talking to when
you don’t know, and strangers thrown
together, as we are, are very likely to
make mistakes if they don’t look out.”
“That’s what I think about it,” said
the precise one. “There are several
people around that I’d like to know
who they are, but I feel a. delicacy in
asking.”
“Who, for instance?” asked the tall
party. letting his eyes wander about
the deck.
“Well, there's a lady standing there,
by that door, talking to a young fellow,
who looks as if he might be her son."
“That far door?” inquired the tall
party, stretching his neck around.
“Yes.”
"She looks as if she might bite a nail
in two?"
”Yes."
“Got a jaw on her like a. vice!”
“Yes.”
“Keeps it going all the time, as it
thele wasn’t any such thing as an
eight—hour law?”
“Yes."
“Got a bonnet on that looks as if it
might be a sign for a vegetable gar-
de: .'m. ‘7‘"
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“Got a complexion like a slab of tan
bark?”
"Yes."
“Got clothes on that look as
they’d been made out of last year’s
circus llOStelS?"
“Exactly—she's the one!
she?”
The tall party got up to have a better
look before committing himself.
“She’s a jay from Westminster, ain’t
she?" he said, with a laugh, as he sat
down again. '
“Yes. W110 is she?”
“Oh, she's my wife. Let me take
you over and introduce you.”
But the cautious man declined, and
managed to lose himself in the crowd
ns quickly as possible.
Who is
Sublime and the Ridiculous.
A sentimental gentleman, out for an
hour’s sail, was rhapsodising in the
following lel'111s2——“When we contem-
plate the heav,ens under the brilliant
light of day or again in the fading
shades of the 9,1 ening, when the stars
Legin to appear one by one with in-
creasing splendour, are not; our souls
impregnated with a. sense of sublim-
ily, of rapture, of mystic awe? Oh,
my friend"—turning to the man at the
helm—“oh, my friend, what do you
think?”——“Think?-why. I thinks it’s
way loikely."
Thousands of Egyptians live in old
tombs. eating, sleeping, wooing, lov-
ing. laughing, dancing, singing, doing
all their deeds of daily life and house-
hold work among the mummies and
balcophagl. _ - 3, ‘ 12125313
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New Nun’- Yelling.
The new importation of nun's vell-
il:g is extremely beautiful this season,
the qualities even more sheer than the
dainty variety already familiar to us,
and the colorings are lovely beyon'l
description. These fabrics are in—
valuable to those wno have to guard
against sudden changes of tempera—
ture in 0111 fitful climate; for, in effect
these te- tiles are as dainty as organdy
or India mull, while yet being exceed-
ingly protective against the influence
of night air, or sea breezes of the sum-
mer. Another great point in their
favor is, that they rumple less easily
than cotton fabrics, or light silks, and
they can, with care, be worn an entire
season without a visit to the cleaner’s.
The newest weaves have handsome,
fancy borderlngs.
The Latest in Skirts.
The newest imported models fur-
nish a variety in skirts that is at least
noteworthy as an exhibition of the
dress designer's ingenuity, but wheth—
er or not they will on this side the
water banish the plain sheath-front
ed skirt, minus all decorations, from
all but the several styles of tailor
gown, remains to be found out later
on, when dressmakers begin to busy
themselves in earnest with spring
gowns. One of the very old styles re-
vived is the demi-trained evening
dress, finished with long, slender pep-
lum points, the skirt of one rich ma-
terial, the long points of another;
these two fabrics are repeated on the
bodice to complete the double effect.
Silk braid put on cloth skirts on wide
trellis patterns, this trimming cover-
ing more than half the depth of the '
skirt, is a very popular garniture.
This elaborate and stylish effect is
carried out on the full blouse waist
often front and back, or the crossing
braids appear only on the front of
a full blouse vest worn beneath an
open jacket made of the cloth.
Fancy Dress, “Roses.”
A pretty idea for a fancy dress would
be an impersonation of roses, carried
out with a white satin skirt, festooned
with deep yellow roses and brown
foliage, the bodice having a founda-
tion of satin, over which gold braid
should be interlaced and trimmed with
roses to correspond with those on
skirt. Another idea would be to have
the white satin skirt festooned across
with roses of all shades or any one
color pr'efell',ed such as pink or red,
with green foliage, the bodice being
interlaced with a green satin ribbon
to give the basket effect; then a pink
silk or satin skirt would look well
with roses shading from pale pink to
deep red, and the bodice be of plaited
gold or silver braid, or of green velvet
ox satin ribbon. Silk stockings and
shoes to match dress, white, cream, or
pink gloves.
Teacher—-“Wha.t do you know about
the law of gravity?"
Pupil—“Ob, if I snicker in church .
have to read two chapters in the Bibi:
when I get 1192111.".
CURRENT COMMENT.
9.115. .el fferson Davis and daughter
are :‘L‘ii to delive an income of $2, 000
51 '9'11' rom literary \vori' : in hex“. York
The Hoods and low mice of cotton have
reduced their returns from the Beau-
voir plantation to a small figure.
Explorer Nansen assures lis Euro-
pean friends that the people who heard
him lecture in America. would evident-
ly have been better pleased if he had
performed a song and dance. The whole
trouble in this affair seems to have
arisen from the fact that the American
people were unable to appreciate Nan-
sen at his own valuation.
In the luxurious cafe of the Vv'aldorf—
Astoria in New York is a muscular per-
son in full dress who is very reserved
and seemes to have nothing to do. He
“the mysterious stranger.”
he
is known as
In less gorgeous establishments
would be called the bouncer.
Throughout the world the farmer is
the only worker who has not been leg-
islated for. When the American farm-
er sees statute books cumbered with
minute and voluminous regulations to
prevent workmen from toiling too
many hours he thinks of his labors
from before sunrise till after sunset.
Ohio has produced a. genius who
wants Uncle Sam to build warships of
rubber. On a postal card addressed
to Congress, dated from Van Wert, he
points out that “cannons ror torpedoes
can’t pierce or go through rubber on
hitting the vessel," and he adds that
all missiles would rebound from the
sides of a ship built on the lines sug~
gested.
The old mossbacks of Georgia. who
have for years been auctioning off the
prisoners of the State to the highest
bidder, to be tortured during their sev-
eral terms, are amazed at the impu-
dence of Sam Jones' platform, which
cuts them off from aparticipation in
politics in the coming campaign. Sam
says that a plank in the platform on
which he purposes to stand as a. candi-
date for the Governorship of Georgia
is that “all the jackasses shall be shut
in a pen.”
There is an impression that in the
State of Nevada, where such brutality
as was exhibited in the Corbett-Fit..-
simmons prize fight is legalized, uni-
versal woman suffrage prevails. It is
only just to correct this error, for wom-
an suffrage does not exist and never
has existed in Nevada. In that State
the very Legislature which legalized
the prize fight refused to pass a joint
resolve for a woman suffrage amend-
ment. No State where -women vote
E has ever legalized prize fighting. Only
four States in the Union have ac-
knowledged the rights of women to
vote, and they are Colorado, “’yoming,
Utah and Idaho.
While the scheme for rural free de-
livery of mail matter is excellent as a
whole, there is one detail in it which
may cause trouble. It is that which
proposes to use the public schools as
centres of distribution, and, apparently.
to give the teachers charge of that
branch of the work. This is putting
a heavy additional responsibility on
men, or more frequently, women, who
already have responsibility enough. By
this scheme the care of letters between
the school and the home will be en-
trusted to careless, irresponsible chil-
dren, and if any are lost the losers will
blame the teacher rather than the child.
It is very doubtful whether this part of
the plan will work well.
Judge Yerkes' decision that it is es-
tablished law that courts must pro—
hibit grade crossings where it is rea-
‘SOnably practicable to avoid them is
news to most people who are not law-
yers, but it declares a good, wholesome
rule. and one that should be applied
to all roads, whether rail or highways.
IVhen railroads were introduced this
country was too large and too thinly
settled and the necessities for trans-
portation were too urgent to permit the
adoption of a rule that no highway
should be crossed at grade; but the
principle should be adopted and en-
forced as far as practicable—first in
and near the cities, and then in the
more thickly settled rural districts. In
a word, grade crossings should be abol-
ished if possible wherever it is danger-
ous to retain them.
There are great systems, like the New
York Central and Illinois Central,
which are almost English property,
while there is hardly a railway, at least
outside New England, whose securities
are not dealt in on the London Stock
Exchange. Further, in everything that
'makes railway traveling safe, rapid
and convenient, America. is the only
country which can seriously dispute
English primacy; while, for example,
English signalling methods and appli—
ances have set the standard for the
world, it is to America all owe auto-
matic brakes and sleeping and dining
cars. Within the last few years, more-
over, there can be no doubt that Amer-
ican railways have improved more and
more rapidly than their English rivals.
Ten years ago a comparison betWeen
English and American express speeds
would have been out of the question.
tend to equal. .
But to- day it must he confessed that, ’
the quality of the very fastest Aiiiericdn '
trains is sucli as England cannot pre—‘ ‘
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NE N0 3M3.
Everybody i Nonvalk” is
Cid people, stooped with suffering.
Middle age, courageously lighting it.
Youth, protesting impatiently.
Children. unable to explain it.
Baby elying, can 't tell why.
All in lnisel'v i'lom their kidneys.
Only a little backache first.
Comes when >011 catch 11 cold or
strain it.
Don t neglect .1 bad luck.
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Many complications follow.
Ul' lllal v diliiculties ,diabetes,Bl ight’s
disease.
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Plenty of Norwalk proof that this is-
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No need to read statements from
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this case: “Mrs. Clinic, of 58 Belden
ave, says: "My daughter is an em-
ploye at Hutchinson Cole «3c (30.. and
her work has told upon her physically,
thetrouble manifesting itself in pain
1n the small of the back. and a weary
and tired feeling. “70 thought Doan’s '
Kidney Pills might help 1161 and I
got a box at Halc’ s d111,;r store. They
cured her. I have no zahestitation in
heal tllv lecommending them.” '
Doan’s Kidney Pills bfor sale by all
dealers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by
Foster-Milburn 00., Buffalo, N. Y., sole
agents for the U. S. Remember the
name Doan’s and take no substitute.
The woman whose winter coat is
shabby declares'that she is very com-
fort-able in her shirt waist and jacket,
while her sister who received a fur
coat for Christmas declares that it is
entirely too chilly to discard heavy
wraps yet.
W ANTE D
Ladies and gentlemen sulieling from
throat and lung difficulties to call at
our store for a. sample bottle of Otto’s
Cure, which we are distributing free
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it as a cure for Coughs. Colds, Bron-
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the thl out and lungs. It will stop a
cough quicker than: any other known
lemedv. W o believe it. will cure you.
In croup or whooping cough it is sure
to give instant relief. Large sizes 500.
and 250. Sold by Edward P. Weed,
Norwalk; Mrs. Scott Williamson,
Darlen.
There is nothing apparently that so
absolutely cxuspel'ates the indlvidual
who has no knowledge of a foreign
languuoe as to have a bfl'lelld spring a
few French 01 (iellnilll phrases on him.
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Its use will prevent fatal consequences
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19151111133115 :1 Help 11. l'llbduellce.
It seems that Daniel Webster went
fishing when he wanted to compose the
finest passages in an oration. One of
his biograp-hers was with him on a.
fishing excursion to Mashpee Brook,
on Cape Cod. Webster, at times, was
so deeply absorbed with his own
thoughts that he held his book out of
water. Suddenly wheeling, he extend-
ed one hand to the overhanging trees
and uttered the memorable sentences
in the Bunker Hill oration, addressed
to the survivors of the revolution, and
beginning: “Venerable men, you
how come down to us from a. former
generation.” On the strength of this
precedent, fishing for eloquence is to
be rec :'.omme.lded ——St. Louis Globe1
Democrat. ‘ ., . .. . .
. \‘l‘illio Talks.
“Do you think,” said Miss Cayenne,
‘that the Senate talks too much?”
“Yes,” replied Willie Wishington;
“and what worries me is the fact that
the-re is almost as much danger of talk-
ing too much about talking too much
as there is of talking too much about.
anything e1se."—Washington Star.
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