Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-09
Done In a Minute.
CFrord tI,s Cleveland Press.

IF rOG the C1efelalad Press.
 "Well, well, don't fret; I'll be there in minute"
 But, my friend, minute means 6 goed deal, notwithstanding you affect to hold it of no consequence. Did you ever stop to think what may happen in a minute? No. We'll, while you are murderlng minute for yourself and one for me, before you get ready to sit down to the business we have in hand, will amuse you by telling you some things that will happen mean time.
 in minute we shall be whirled around on the outside of the earth by its diurnal motion distance of thir- teen miles. At the same time we shall have gone along with the earth, in its grand journey around the sun, 1OSO miles. Pretty quick travelling you say? Why, that is slow work compared with the rate of travel of that ray of light which just now re- flected from that mirror made you wink. A minute ago that ray was 11,600O0o miles away.
 In minute, over all the world, about eighty newborn infants have each raised wall of protest at the fates for thrusting existence upon them, while as many more human be- ings, weary with the struggle of life, have opened their lips to utter their last slgh.
 In a minute the lowest sound your ear can catch has been made by 99o vibrations, while the highest tone reached you after making 2,228.OOO vibrations.
 In minute an express train goes a mlle and Cleveland street car 92 rods; the fastest trotting hogse 149 9-13 rods, and an average pedestrian of the genus homo has got over 16 rods.
 In each minute in the United States, night and day, all the year round, twenty-four barrels of beer have to go down 12,O96 threats, and 4830 bushels of gram have come to hin.
 If there were a box kept at the City Hall Tn the City of Cleveland into which every minute a sum sufficient to pay the interest on the city debt had to be dropped, the sum so dropped each minute of the whole year would be 87c.
 How about national finances? Well, sir, in the same way, each min ute. nlsht anG-day, Ag tho afici&l rq1 ports for the year 1886, the Unitad States collected s461, and spent $639 $178 more than necessary. The inter- est on the pubhc debt was S96 a mln- ute, or just exactly equal to the amount of silver mIned in that time.
 Now, in the residue of figures l give, you will remember that they represent so much for every minute in the year All the preceding figures should be so considered. And remember, also, that we are all the time, hereafter, talking about facts connected with the whole UnltOd States.
 The telephone is used 595 times, the telegraph 136 times. or tobacco, 925 pounds Is raised, and part of it has been used in making 6673 cigars, and some more of it has gone up in the smoke of 2292 cigarettes.
 But am afraid that you will forget ttat wo are talking about minute, sixty seco nds of time. No? Well, then, every minute 600 pounds of wool grow in this country, and we have to dig sixty.one tons of anthracite coal and 200 tons of bituminous coal, while of pig-lrOn we tuin out twelve tons and of steel ralls three tons.
 In this minute you have kept me waiting fifteen kegs of nails have been made, twelve bales of cotton should have come from the fields and thirty SIX bushels Of grain gone into 149 gal Ions of spirits, while S66 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 $12l and forty-two acres of the public domain have been sold or given away.
 Edward Atkinson, the distinguished statiticlan and political economist, has been telling the country, through
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