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Show "In a minute," is an expression expres-sion frequently heard. A minute seoms a very small and f unimportant unim-portant fraction of time, an3 be-causo be-causo of that idea most people waste a good many in tho course of a day. Yet think what can bo donb in tho shurtspace ofa minute. Take traveling asv1m example, In a minute tno aver-ago aver-ago pedestrian walks sixteen rods, a trotting horse and an oconn "groy hound" covor half n milo and nn express train clips oif a mile. That is pretty fast traveling, but nothing to what this old world is doing. In ono minuto it whirls us around on the outside of the earth by its diurnal motion some thirteen miles, and it speeds us on in tho same space of time 1.0S0 miles on its gVand tour :ucunl t! sun. But ovon that is slow work compared with what a my of I light does, feu in one short I minuto it flashes through 1 11,000.000 miles. A minuto is a good deal aftor all. |