The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-08-11
DONE IN \ MINUTE.
what Il Access pltshed Every sixty
heeomds.
Cleveland Press.

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"Well, well, DOM fret; I'll be there
IN minute
But, my friend. minute means Q
good deal, notwithstanding y0u affect
to hold it ot no consequence. Did
you ever stop to tllnk wnat may hsp.
pen IN nlinutei No. Well, wnIIe you
are niurdcriBg minute for yourself
and one for me, before you get ready
to slt down to the business we have
in hand, will smuse you by telling
you soms things that will happen
meantllne.
In minute We shall be whirled
around on the outside of the earth by
its diurDaI mutiou distant of thir.
teen miles. At the same time we shall
have goDe along wltk the earth, in its
grand journey around the sun, 1880
miles. Pretty quick travelling, you
sayl Why, th-t - slew work compar.
ed with lhe rate of travel OF that ray
ut light which just now reflected from
that mirror made you wink. A minute
agu that ray, Was ll,l60,000 miles
away
minute, over alI the world, about
eighty newborn infants have each
raised u WALL Oi protest ut the fstes
tor thrustIng existence upon them.
willie ~ many more human being,
weary with the Struggle of life, have
upcned their lips to utter their last
sIgn.
Iu q minute the lowest sound Jour
ear can catch has becn made by 800
Vibrations, while the highest tone
reached you aite. making 2,225,OO0
vibrations.
In minute an express train goes
mi.e and Cleveland street car thirty
two roas; LIie fastest trottiug horse
l41 .l3rUds, aud au average ps 1es-
train ot tile genus homo has got over
sixteen rods.
In zach minute in the United States
nIgnl aud usy, Ill the year round,
tweniy.lour barrels al beer have to 40
down l2,0g6 Threats, anu 1850 DuslIeIs
of grain nave come lo bIn.
Ii tneIe wcfe box kept AT the City
Hal. In the city ut Cleveland into
winch every minute sum sufficient
to pay til, interest on the city dcnt
had III be dTppprd, the sum 80 drop
ped each minute Of the whore year
would be 81 cents.
How about na.ional fnancesl Well,
SIR, IN the same way. zach minute,
night and day. 10y the official reports
Tor tue year 1856. the United States
coliccled $63y aud spent $48i, $l75
mere than necessary. TIE interest
on III. pub.Ic debt was 500 minute,
"r just exactly equM To tue amount Of
silver mined IN that time.
Now IN tiIe residue ut figures give,
you will remember thar they repres-
ent 81 much tor every mIuute IL the
year. All the preceding figures should
lie ao cunsidered. Aud remember,
also. that We are sll the time. her. after,
taking about facts connected with
the whole Cuited States.
the telephone IL used 695 timcs,
the telegraph l36 time. 0f tobaccO.
925 pounds - raised anil part of il has
been use,l in making G673 cigars, and
some more of il has gone up in the
smoke OF 1922 cigarettes.
But am afraid that you will for
get that We are talking about min.
ute, sixty seconds of time. MOI Well,
then, every minute 600 pounds uf wool
r. ow In This country, and W. have ton
sIxty.one tons nf anthracite coal and
200 tons Of bitumin0us coal, while of
pigiron We turn out twelve tons and
at steel rail three tons.
In this minute you have kept me
waiting fifteen kegs of nails have been
male, Iwelve bales Of cotton should
have come from The fields and thirty
SIX bushels of grain gone into l40
gallons of spirits. while 500 in gold
should have been dug out ot the earth
In the same time the United States
Mint turned cut gald and silver coin
To the value Of Sl2i anil forty-twO
acres Of the public domain have been
sold or given away.