Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-11-01
All Done In sixty Seconds.

swell, well, don't fret; I'll be there
in minute"
But, my friend, minute means a
good deal, Notwithstanding you affect
to hold 1t of no consequence. Did YOU
ever stop to think what may happen in
a minute? No. Well, while YOU are MUIR
dering a 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 some things that
will happen meantime.
In minute we shall be whirled
around on the outside of the earth by
its diurnal motion distance of thirteen
miles. At the same time we shall have
gone along with the earth, in its grand
journey around the sun, 1850 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 reflected from that mirror made
you wink. A minute ago that ray was
II, 100, 900 miles away.
In minute, over all the world, about
eighty newborn infants have each raised
wall of protest at the fates for thrust
ing existence upon them, while as many
more human beings, weary with the
struggle of life, have opened their lips
to utter their last sigh.
In q minute the lowest sound YOUR
ear can catch has been made by 900 vibra-
tons, while the highest tone reached
you after making EGGS, 900 vibrations.
In minute an express train goes a
mile and Cleveland street car 81 rods;
the fastest trotting horse 147 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, TWEEN
ty-four barrels of beer have to go down
1905 threats, and 4, $50 bushels of grain
have come to bin.
If there We're box kept at the city
hall in 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 min
ute of the whole year would be eighty
seven cents.
How about National finances? Well
sir, in the same way, each minute, night
and day, by the official reports for the
year 1886, the United States collected
$639 and spent 1851, $11S more than
debt was just 500 minute, or just ex-
iSIly tIuttl " vic ulllpuuL vi silver
mined in that time.
Now in the residue of figures I give
| you will remember that they represent
| so much for every minute in the wear.
| All the preceding figures should be so
considered. And remember, also, that
well the time, hereafter, talking are
about facts connected with the whole
| United States.
The telephone is used 595 times, the
telegraph 1876 times. OF tobacco 92j
pounds are raised. and part of it has
been used in making 6,673 cigars and
some more Of it has gone up in the
smoke of 2,292 cigarets.
But | am afraid that you will forget
that we are talking about a minute,
sixty seconds of time. No? Well, then,
every minute 600 pounds of wool grow
in this country, aud we have to dig SIX
ty-one tons Of anthracite coal and POO
tons of bituminous coal, while of pig
iron we turn out twelve tons and of
steel rails three tons.
In this minute you have kept me wait.
ing 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 gallons of spirits,
while 500 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 $121, and
forty acres of the public domain have
been sold or given away.-Clerelund
| Press.