St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-07
DONE IN A MINUTE,
What Is Accomplished Ever,
Sixty Seconds.


Sixty Seconds.
Cleveland Press.
swell, well, don't fret; I'll be there
in minute"
But, my friend, minute means
good deal, Notwithstanding you affect ia
Mold 1t of no consequence. Did YOU ever
stop to think what may happen in
minute? No. Well, while YOU are muir
derlng minute for yourself and one
LOT me, before you get ready to sit down
10 the business we have in hand, will
amuse you by telling you some things
that Will happen meantime.
In minute we shall be whirled
around on the outside of the earth nv its
dlurnal motion a distance of thirteen
miles. At the same time we have gone
along with the earth, in its grand
Journey around the sun, 1.OSO miles,
Hretty 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, 100000 miles away.
In minnie, over all the world, about
eIgnty newborn infants have each
raised wall of protest at the fates fol-
thrustlng existence upon them. while
-.
with the struggle of life, have opened
thelr lips to utter their last sigh.
In minute the lowest sound youl
ear can catch has been made by 800 vi.
pratlOnS, While the highest tone reached
you after making 2,22S, 900 vibrations.
In minute an express train goes a
mile and Cleveland street car 80 rods;
the fastest trOtting horse, AT 9-13 rods
ana an average pedestrian of the genus
mono has got over Is rods.
IN each minute in the United States,
hlght ana day, all the year round, "a
oafre!S OF beer have to go down 12,OM
Threats, and 1880 bushels of grain have
come to bin.
!, II there were box kept at the city
nall In the city of Cleveland into which
every minute sum sufficient to pay the
interest on the city debt had to be
cropped, the sum so dropped each min.
cents. ' w -
How about national finances? Well,
slr, III the same way, each minute, night
ana day, by the official reports for the
year 1886, the United States collected
s639 and spent S461, Sis more than nee.
eSsary. The interest Oh the public debt
was S96 minute, or Just exactly equal
10 the amount of silver mined in that
time. IL 'i-'''
Now, in the residue of figures l give,
you Will remember that they represent
somuch for every minute in the wear.
All the preceding figures should be 50
considered. And remember, also. that
we are all the time, hereafter, talking
ABOUT iacts connected with the whole
United States.
The telephone is used 595 times, the
telegraph 1876 times. Of tobacco. 925
pounds is raised and part of it has been
used III making 6,673 cigars, and some
more OF 1t has gone up in the smoke of
1892 cigarettes.
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
III this country, and we have to dig
SlXty-0ne tons of anthracite coal and 200
tons OF bltuminOuS coal, while OF pig-
IRON we turn out twelve tons and Of
steel rails 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 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 S12l and fOrty-two acres of the
public domain have been sold or given
away.