Show WAITED A cleveland press well well dont fret ill be there in a minato min nto but my friend a minute means a good deal notwithstanding you affect 10 hold it if of no consequence did you ever stop to think what may happen in a minute no well while you are murdering a minute for yourself and one for me before you get ready to sit down to the business wo nave in hand I 1 will amuse you by belling you some things that will happen meantime in a we will bo whirled around on tho outside of the earth by its diurnal motion a distance of thirteen miles at the same time we ahall have gone along with the earth in its grand journey around the sun miles pretty quick traveling you say why this is slow compared with the rate of travel ol 01 hat ray of light which just now re decked from that mirror made you vink A minute ago that was II miles away in a minute over all the world about eighty newborn new born infants have each raised a wail of protest at the for thrusting existence upon ahem whilo as many more human beings weary with the struggle of life aade opened their lips to utter their last sigh in a minute the lowest sound your ar can catch has been made by vibrations ahde the highest tone reached you after making vibrations in a an express train goes A mile and a cleveland street car two rods the fastest trotting adrae 9 13 rods and an average pedestrian of the genus homo has got aver sixteen rods in each in the united states abight and day all the year round twenty four barrels of beer have to 0 o down throats and bushels of grain havo como to bin if there were a box kept at the city hall in the city of cleveland into which every a sum sufficient to pay tho interest on the city debt had to bo dropped the sum so dropped each minute of the whole year would bo 87 cents how about national finances 9 well sir in the same way each minute night and day by tho official reports for tho year 1886 the united states collected and spent more than necessary the interest on the public debt was sag a minute or juat exactly equal to the amount of silver mined in that time now in the residue of figures I 1 gave you will remember that thoy represent so much for every minute in the year all the preceding figures should bo so considered and remember also that wo are all alie time hereafter talking about facts connected with tho whole united states the telephone is used times tho telegraph times of tobacco pounds is raised and part of it has been used in making cigars and some more of it has gono up in the smoke of 2292 cigarettes but I 1 am afraid that you will forget that wo aro talking about a minute CO of time no well then every minute COO pounds of wool grow in this country and we have ta dig sixty one tons of anthracite coal and tons of bituminous coal while of pig iron we turn out twelve tons and of steel rails three tons in this minute you havo kept me waiting fifteen kegs of nails have been made twelve bales of cotton should have como from the fields and thirty six bushels of grain gone into ma gallons pr spirits while 66 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 and forty two aaros of the public domain have been coldor given away |