Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — Mediterranean Time. [ARTICLE]

Mediterranean Time.

Noticing that my wateh did not agree with the clocks in the Court House Tower and the church steeple. 1 asked the colored man who was driving us around what kind of time they had in Savannah. “We has two kin’s o’ time hyar, sab; de railroad time an' de Mediterranean time.” “The what?" “De time dat de kyars comes in an' goes out by, sab, and de Mediterranean time, sah, which am de city time, de same as de sun.” “We call It meridian time up North,” I suggested. “I reckon dat may be so, sah; de No’then folks am a trifle quare in what dey call things; dey have quare ways, sah, dey shorely do."—The Chicago Record.