. A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac; historical and descriptive . 0 377 70 Detroit. . .Arrive Saturdays Mondays. 1 .UU Arrive 110 By Steamers, from Cleveland and Detroit. 24 Oclock System.—Messrs. Roehm and Wright, watchmakersof Detroit, recently showed us the dial given below as one alreadyadopted by a leading watchmaker. It illustrates how readily timepieces can be adapted to this system. The outer row of figures denotethe first twelve hours from midnight, the inner row from noon until twenty-fouroclock, or midnight. Nothing new, wastheground recently takenby the Commissioners o
. A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac; historical and descriptive . 0 377 70 Detroit. . .Arrive Saturdays Mondays. 1 .UU Arrive 110 By Steamers, from Cleveland and Detroit. 24 Oclock System.—Messrs. Roehm and Wright, watchmakersof Detroit, recently showed us the dial given below as one alreadyadopted by a leading watchmaker. It illustrates how readily timepieces can be adapted to this system. The outer row of figures denotethe first twelve hours from midnight, the inner row from noon until twenty-fouroclock, or midnight. Nothing new, wastheground recently takenby the Commissioners of Patents in denying a patent for a twenty-four hourdial. This method of measuring time dates back to Alfred the Great, whomade use of candle clocks, consisting of six candles, twelve inches in length, the in-ch e s markedon burnedfour hourseach,or an inchevery twentyminutes, the sixcandles lastingtwenty -fourhours. Wehave recentlydiscovered thatmany thingsantique aresuperior to themodern, andmay not this bethe case in thepresent meth-od of comput-. I n g time?Certainly thetwenty -fouroclock systemwould prove agreat conven-ience, especi-ally to the trav-eling public. There beingtwenty -fourhours, why nothave a namefor each partic-ular hour, thenthere would ben o necessityfor the A. P. oftenleads to errors. Dial Showing the 24 Oclock System,and as attention is being called to this easier and more satisfactorymethod, it would seem strange if business men who are studying accu-racy and system in everything else should not finally adopt this bettersystem of time. On ten oclock being given as the hour of departureof steamer or train, how often is the question asked morning or even-ing, while 22 oclock would clearly indicate the time to be within twohours of midnight. From one oclock in the morning until twelveoclock noon the hours are the same as ever, but after twelve oclocknoon, the hours would run thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, etc., up totwenty-four oclo
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