SEVENTY TIMES ROUND THE WORLD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 253, 23 February 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

SEVENTY TIMES ROUND THE WORLD.

There is a man in London at present who has travelled from Vancouver :o London fifty-one times. As it is upwards of 10.000 miles there and back, this man has travelled over half a million miles in this way, or to the moon and back and then round the world.

But though this t;eems a big feat for one lifetime, there is a retired commander of the Cunard Line who has crossed the Atlantic no fewer than 550 times, making 1.876,000 mdes, or four times to the moon and back! Or, to put it another way, seventy-eight times round tho world at the equator! Yet these records, wonderful though they seem, sink into significance when compared with the journeys every human being on the glol>e takes in the span of threescore years and ten. The globe travels round the sun once a year, a joitrnev roughlv of 540,000,000 miles—av the crow flies! To tn'a yearly journey add the daily journey on the spinning glol>e of 24,000 multiplied by 3G5, a total of 8,760,000, and we get the stupendous but undoubU'd journey per annum of 548.760,000 miles, or as many miles as there are sovereigns in our present war expenditure every hundred; days. When this is multiplied by the years of life—sav seventv —we get the amazing mileage of 3=C413.200,000, or over 300 time* to the and back! No wonder the old mini of seventy sometimes feels tired!