The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-05
A MINUTES WORK.
The Things That Require Only Sixty
Seconds For Doing.

Seconds For Doing.
From the Cleveland Press.
"Well, well, don't fret I'll be there in a
minute"
But, my friend, minute means a good
deal, notwithstanding you affect to hold it
Ofno consequence. Did you ever stop to
think what may happen in a 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, will amuse you by telling
you some things that may happen mean
time.
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
iOoO miles. Pretty quick travelling you
saw Why, that is slow work compared with
tne 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,
100000 miles away.
IN minute, over all the world, about
eighty newborn infants have each raised a
wall OF protest at the fates for thrusting ex-
istence upon them, while as many more
human beings, weary with the struggle of
lie, have opened their lips to utter their last
sigh.
In minute the lowest sound your ear can
catch has been made by 900 vibrations, while
. su an nlghest tone reached you after making
~,22S, 900 vibrations.
IN minute an express train goes mile,
and a Cleveland street car SO rods; the fast
eSO trotting horse, 147 9-13 rods, and an
average pedestrian of the genus homo has
got over l6 rods.
IN each minute in the United States, night
anu DAY, all the year round, twenty-four
uaTrels OF beer have to go down IL, 096
onroats, and 1880 bushels of grain have
come to bin,
III III there were box kept at the City
ilalI III the city Of Cleveland, into which
very minute sum sufficient to pay the in
. teleSt on the city debt had to be dropped,
.ne sum so dropped each minute Of the whole
year would be 81 cents.
now about national finances? Well, sir,
~ tne same way, each minute, night and
Jay by the official reports for the year 1886,
s sle nlted States collected S639, and spent
efol' SlIS more than necessary. The inter
esC on the public debt was 500 a minute, or
~. usv exactly equal to the amount of silver
mined in that time.
NOW; now, In the residue Of figures give, you
t Til remember that they represent SO much
dop every minute in the year. All the pre-
.,sellng figures should be- so considered. And
tioIle1loer also, that we are all the time,
t. e talking about facts connected with
'dg II, whole United States.
IN, me telephone is used 595 times, the tele-
Siapn 100 times. OF tobacco, 925 pounds
raised and part of it has been used in
;;.aahhlhg 6,673 cigars, and some more of
~ uds gone I'D in the smolxa of 9 2g2 cigar
cites. "a ~'~
W. out am afraid that you will forget that
o meare talking about minute, sixty sec
nus s6 OF time. NOT WE'LL then every min
I've se oJO pounds of wool grows in this coun-
ny ~ and we have to dig 81 tons Of anthracite
o ~ and 200 tons of bitumlnous coal, while
sto pig-lron we turn out twelve tons and Of
0|el rails three tons.
sft tn thls minute you have kept me waiting
LaTIoeh Kegs OF nails have been made, twelve
s saiss OK cotton should have come from the
~; ,Vius aud thirty-six bushels of grain gone
s s1So L4S gallons Of spirits, while S66 in gold
IIn H. ~ have been dug out of the earth.
t' ~ we same time the United States Mint
v voilned out gold and silver coin to the
nu niue OF Sl2l, and forty-two acres Of the
away. ~ ' e-''A