The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-01-27
Striking statistics--'rhe Time Wasted in ear-
ning a living Il - a. =

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The New York Picayunc has compiled
some interesting facts il the following article,
for which it is responsible - N'''7''''i
Z Several ofour contemporaries havo lately
occupied themselves with statistical articles,
showing the loss of time and money which is
incurred by chewing tobacco, smoking segars,
and drinking rum. We desiring not to be
behind thcage, intend 70 present tho public
with n few statistics as 20 tho amount of time
which is wasted in earning a living. 5sm -
AS q general rule we may, say that men of
business spend about nine hours per, day in
their stores, which with three qn7irtcrs Of an
honr occupied n'going down town, and the
same time in returning home would make,
ten hours and Q half per day. Ten hours.
and a half per day for six days in the week
is sixty-three hours, to which being. added
twelve hours for Sunday (thc whole Of that
day being usually devoted to the thinking Of
the store) gives seyenty-ive hours perweek,
is 1900, hours per annum, and slpposing a.
man TO live three score and ten years and. de-
vote nifty of those years in business, we have
tho fearfu.result of l95, 600 in a life tirne
wasted in earning aliying, 195,000 which he
might have loafed at the corner grocery. Ali
lowing fifteen minutes as, the, TING l,ecessarys
for drinking a whisky punch, we find thnt
IA man cfscvcnty years of iige, whohass SPENT
fifty Of themlin business, might have drank
10000 whisky punch es--or allowing half
an hour for smoking n segar, he might have
smoked three hundred and ninety scgars.-r
Calculating. n little less for chew Of tobac-
co, he might has musticatcd $4,000 guilds
Of tho Indian weed, and that without en-
croackipg in any why on his present hours of
recreaton flafI "a dd. iiaqia on ti MGA
Looking upon itina moro literary point
of view, we shall find that in fifty years vast
cd in earning a living, a man might have read
two million three hundred and forty thousand
hymns, orhe might (allowing a day por vol. J
have read nineteen thousand five hundred
volumes of Bonncr's History Of tho United
States, or if blcst with strong constitution
lie might have peruscd 6ayol. of9Abbot!'s
History Of Napoleon. 81 '2e.isN at Fea i
8 IT. however, we suppose the man to have
INDUCED in the vice Of earning a.living to on
IS limited extent, consuming only half the
time we estimated in our calculation, which
would be fiye and one-fourth hours per day.,
and lie had-dcyoted the remaining five and
onc-fourth 70 miscellaneous pursuits, he might
have had the following list Of cnjcymcnts by
the time he has reached the age of seventy.
Z lie might have read one volume Of Alb
bots History Of Napoleon. Y, % ano q :.
3 He might have read G,250 volumes Of
Bonner's Childs Historyof the United Statos..
He might have sung 2p5.00o Hymns,
Ia p,io,ht buvh cha,vaJ AZ 750 Nou;ds of
Tobacco. aaH ~
He might have smoked 42,5oo Segars. !.
He might have drank $4,000 Punches. C
He might have had this vast array Of en-
joyment and still earned a living with the
consolation in his old age of having lived q
Jolly and being wiser and better men. 2