The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-17
Where Time Flies.


A man whose head is bullying with
mathematical problems has figured
out the disposition of every hour of
the daily life of an average man, and
tells just how many hours a man OF
fifty years has devoted to his toilet,
meals or newspapers. LET us as
sume,n said he, that the sleeping
hours of an average ma will number
eight daily. That is one-third of his
time, so that in fifty years your man
will have slept all told sixteen years
and eight months. The man who is
shaved daily at fifty years probably
had his face scraped not oftener than
three times per week at twenty-five
| wears. while during eighteen years a
razor never touched his face. Say
| that the semi-centarian has averaged
two shaves a week for fifty years, and
that will give 5, 700 scrapes in the half
century. AT an average of fifteen
minutes per shave the time devoted to
this one small element of life will run
up to tifty-nine days and nine hours.
If a man should not shave.in fifty
wears, and then attempt to make up
his proportion all at once, he would
have to shave night and day for
nearly two months.
1.-The average man who is not linn
tied to twenty minutes for dressing,
breakfast and catching his train, con
IN about thirty minutes in getting
inside his clothing every morning.
Half an hour per day for fifty years
would amount to n year. fifteen
days and five hours, so that ii a man
should dress himself at the start in
life for the whole fifty years, he would
pass two weeks beyond his birthday
anniversary, and this means working
t~wenty-four hours per day. A bath
should precede dressing, however, and
twenty minutes a day for that purpose
would put a imam in the tub for eight
months, thirteen days and eleven
hours out of the fifty years. For other
demands of the morning toilet allow
ten minutes per day, or four months,
five days and twenty hours in half a
century. Why, just a single minute
every day spent in hunting for q col
lar button means twelve days and
fourteen hours in the course OF fifty
years.
"Half an hour for breakfast, forty
minutes for lunch and an hour for
dinner amount to four years five
months, fvedays and nine hours of
eating i'll hftyyears of life. The
man who lives away up in the
Twenty-eighth wardand spends
an hour of each day jogging
to and from business in a horse
car may not realize it, but it is
nevertheless true that in thirty years
one year, three months, n day and
six hours of his time will go in that
way. When a man reekons his timeas
worth fifty cents an hour it seems
rather rough to think that it takes
$1S2. 80 worth every year to get to
business and back home again every
day.
millions in Mineral Water.
David Andreas Saxlehner, owner Of
the Hunyadi Janos. died recently
while on his way to Carlsbad. He
was a man of limited education, but
practical in the extreme. After fall
ing in several undertakings, he estab-
lished a national clothing-housen in
Buda Pestti, in which home goods
alone were sold. Louis Kossuth. the
Hungarian patriot, consented to act
as Saxlehner's clerk for several days, in
consequence of which business in
creased enormously. While Sax
lehner was sitting one day in his Of
flee, a peasant entered and complained
that he could get no fresh water on
his farm. He had bored wells in q
number of places, but succeeded in
getting only q peculiarly scented