Show athars in a whon you say to your wife dont fret ill be there in a minute just think that in that minute over all the world about eighty new born babies have each raised a wail of protest at being thrust into existence while as many more human being with lifes struggle have uttered their last la st beigh according to united states statistics for 1886 in that brief space of sixty seconds and the remark is true of every minute in the year we produced sixty one tons of anthracite coal twelve bales of cotton ca worth of gold and turned out in gold and silver coin and sold or gave away forty two acres of land the duke of westminster has an income of thirty shillings a minute As it has taken five minutes to arito this article wo have been whirled round on the outside of the earth by its diurnal motion just sixty five miles and it a cool day for traveling either A minute therefore is a pretty important measure of time when one thinks about it |