A Postal Race Round the Earth

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1879

A Postal Race Round the Earth.

A GENTLEMAN in Sweden despatched on the 18th of April last two post-office cards, the one to the British consulate at Madras, and the other to a commercial firm at San Francisco, with the request to forward them on to himself, the former via Japan and San Francisco back to Ljungskile, Sweden, and the latter via Japan and Madras back to Ljungskile, the one eastward and the other westward, the object being to ascertain which of the cards would come back sooner to the sender. The result has been that the card which went eastward returned on the 11th of August, and the other on the following day, the former after 116 days, and the latter after 117 days' journey round the world