Daily Republican., 1888-06-19
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"Nell, we'll, don't fret; I'll be there
In q minute"
"But, my friend, q minute means A
good deal. Notwithstanding you affect
10 hold 1t Of ne consequence. Did YOU
ever stop 10 think what NAV happen
In minutea" No. Well, while You
are numbering a minute for yourself
and one for me, before you get ready
to sit down to the business we have In
hand, l will amuse you by telling you
some things that will happen mean
time.
In q minute we shall be whirled
around on the earth by Its diurnal mo-
ton distance OF thirteen miles, At
the same time we shall have gone
along with the earth, In Its gra nd
Journey around the sun, 1880 miles.
Pretty quick travelling, you say9 Why,
that is slow work compared with the
rate of travel of the ray of light which
Just now reflected from that mirror
made you wink. A minute ago that
ray was IL, 100, 900 miles away.
In a minute, over all the world,
about eighty new born infants have
each raised a wall Of protest at the
fates for thrusting existence upon
them, while as many more human be.
lngs, weary with the struggle of life,
have opened their lips To utter theil
last sigh.
In minute the lowest sound your
ear can catch has been made by 99(
vibrations, while the highest tone
reached you after making 2,22S, 00(
vibrations. ..--4
In q minute, all over the United
States, night and day, all the veal
round, twenty-four barrels of Deel
have TO 60 down 1906 throats, ant
4, $50 bushels of grain have come Il
tbin,
If there were box kept In the City
Hall into which every minute q sum
sufficient to pay the interest on the
city debt had to be dropped, the sum
30 dropped each minute Of the whole
/ year would be SIC.
How about national financesf Well
sir. In the same way, each minute
night and day, by the official report.
for the year 1886, the United States
collected $3.50 and spent $461. The
interest on the public debt was 800 O
minute, or just exactly equal to the
amount Of silver mined in the same
time.
Now, in the residue of figures !
|give, you will remember that they
represent so much for every minute In
the year. All the preceding figures
should be so considered. And remem-
Der, also, that we are all the time,
hereafter, talking about facts connected
with the whole United States.
The telephone is used 500 times, the
Telegraph 1855 times. of tobacco 925
pounds is raised, and part of it as
been used In making 6673 cigars, and
some more Of IL has gone up In the
smoke of 2292 cigarettes.
But am afraid that you will forget
we are talking about a minute, so sec
|onds of time, Nor Well, then every min
ute 600 lbs of wool grow in this coun i.
try, and we have to dig sixty one tons
of anth acite coal, and 200 tons of
bituminous coal, while of iron we
turn out twelve tons and of steel rails
three tons.
In this minute you have kept me
waiting Is kegs Of nails have been
made, twelve bales of cotton should
have eome from the fields and thirty
SIX bushels OF grain gone into 140 gall
Ion of spirits, $66 in gold should
have been dug out of the earth. In
the same time the United States Mint
turned out gold and silver coin to the
value of 1921 and forty.two acres OF
the public domain have been sold or
given away.