Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1897 — A Tremendous Journey. This and That. [ARTICLE]

A Tremendous Journey.

This and That.

An ordinary walk of au hour is equivilent to a journey of 1,000 miles just ,’s a beginning. The average person walks three miles an hour, according to reckoning, but when it is considered that tlie world is constantly turning on its axis, it Is apparent where the 1,000 miles come in. This is by no means ail. The earth makes a journey round tlie sun every year, and a long hut rapid trip it is. The distance of our planet from the sun is put In round numbers at 92,000,000 miles. This is the radius of the earth's orbit—half the diameter of the circle, as it is called. '1 he whole diameter is therefore 184,000,000 miles, and the circumference, being the diameter multiplied by 3.1416, is about 578,000,000. This amazing distance tlie earth travels in its yearly journey, and, dividing It by 365, we find the daily speed about 1,584,000 miles. Then, to get the distance you rode round the sun during your hour’s walk, divide again by 24, and the result is about 66,000 miles. This Is not the end of the hour’s trip, however. The sun, with its entire brood of planets, is moving In space at the rate of 166,000,000 miles in a year. This is at the rate of a little more than 454,000 miles a day, or 18,900 miles an hour. So, adding the three miles of leg travel to the hour’s axial movement of the earth, this to the earth's orbital journey, and this again to the earth’s excursion with the sun, and you find ■you have traveled in the hour 85,903 miles.—San Francisco Examiner.

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