Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-01
A MINUTES WORK.
$tme Of tbs Things That Require Only Sixty
"a Seconds for Doing.
~ Cleveland press

p Cleveland Press.
"W.fl, well, don't fret; I'll be there In
aaenu.e."
But, my friend, minute means good
deal, Notwithstanding YOU sfsct to hold
it Of no consequence. Did you ever stop
H. taink Whist may happen in minuse2
NO. Well, while you ere numbering =
minute for yourself and one for me, before
you get ready to sit down to the business
We have ia hand, viii amuse you oy tell
ing you some things that may happen
N San ime.
In minute we shall be wnirled around
on the outside Ct the earth by its diurnal
motion, distance Of thirteen miles. At
the same time we shall have gone along
With the esrtb, in its grand journey
around the sun, 1850 miles. Pretty quick
travelling you say? WY, that Is slow
work compared with the rate of travel OF
that ray Of light which just now collected
ute ago that ray was 11,l60,00o miles
sway.
In 8 minute over all the world, about
eighty newborn infants have each raised
wall OF protest at the sates for thrustiog
human beings, weary with the struggle
OF life, have opened their lips to utter
their last sigh.
In minute the lowest sound your esr
can catch has been made by $50 vibra
tons, while the highest tone reached you
sitter making 2. 22s 900.
In minute an express train goes
mile and q Cleveland street car 80 rods;
| ho Ca
and an average pedestrian Of the genus
homo has got over l6 rods.
In each minute, in the United St6tes,
night and day, all the year round, twenty
four barrels Of beer bsve to 60 down 49,
have come to bin.
II there were box kept at the city hall
in the city of Cleveland into which every
minute sum sufficient to pay the inter-
est on the city debt had to be dropped,
the sum 80 dropped esch minute OF the
whole year would be 81 cents.
How about nstionsi finances? Well,
sir, in the same wsv, each minute, night
and day, BY the fi1eiA reports for the
Sesr 1886, tas Uoifed States collected
S639 and epehf S461-SI78 more than
necessary. The interest on the public
debt was 500 minute. or just exactly
equal to the amount Of silver mined in
that time.
Now. in the residue Of figures I give.
you will remember that thsy re present So
much for every minute In the year. All
the breeding figures should be &c con-
sidered. Anu remember. also, that we
are all the time, hereafter, talking about
facts connected with the whole United
States.
The telephone Is used 595 times, the
telegraph 1876 tines. OF tobacco, 925
pounds is raised, and part Of 1t has been
used in making 667S cigars, and some
more Of it has gone up in the smoke OF
2292 cigarettes.
But I Sd, afraid that you will forget
that we are talking soout minute, sixty
seconds OF time. Mop Well, then, every
minute 900 pounds OF WOOL grow Ia this
country, and We have to dig sXty-one
ms of anthracite coal snd 200 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 thiriy-six bushels of
grain gone into 149 gallons Of spirits,
while sec In gold should have been dug
out Of the earth. In the same time the
United States mint turned out gold and
g Yer coin to the value of 1921, aid
foffy-two acres of the public domain
hSfe been sold or gwen away.