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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 23, 1878, Winnipeg, Manitoba I pc or to to r no an from article in the London times by we condense these have to know How Many of brought fully Home to your a j u8ne33 the Rea Ligniti their word billion Kloh is Cance of Vrej indeed few in run fairly grasp it and digest it Tel Lect e and t "ere7 Are doubtless Many cannot appreciate its True i measure of time take one be fhe unit and go Back in thought cond8 Hela Pae of Ages to the first Day of j Ora 3c5 dav3 find in the y la just seconds of time. Every n returning in thought Back again of Grac 1878, one might have a billion of seconds had Toi Bupp used that 9upp elapsed but this is not so. Passed one sixth of il6 Engual ears to that her in if these eventual years for it i St 31.689 years 17 Days 22 hours five seconds to constitute a Hilton of seconds of time. Balsa Sovereign on Tho ground and pile f a Many As will reach Twenty feet then let us place numbers of in close Contact forming a it line and making a sort of Wall Twenty be two suci1 Wjung Edge Kiwalle o each other and forming fun were a Long Street. We must then Sissi tug these Walb for Miles hundreds of Miles and still we shall be sort of the required number. And it is i 51 we have extended our imaginary Wirts a stance Miles that we shave presented to inspection our one sovereigns Flat on the ground Chain each Sov Ono continuous caching its fellow and before we have got Down the last of our Sov we shall have passed Over land and sea Mountain and Valley desert and Plain Sund the Globe to our starting Point and a Are far from the end. To must keep on 763 thne3 round the world to sex of height let us take a Ruoh smaller unit As our measuring Rod. C i see How High a dense pile formed by billion of thin paper leaves would reach. To must in imagination pile them vertically upward by degrees reaching to the Hoiet of our tallest Spires and passing these the pile must still grow higher top Ping Tho Alps and the Andes and the High est peaks of the Himalayas and shooting up from thence through the Fleecy Clouds Nass beyond the confines of our Atton sated atmosphere and leap up into the Blue Ether with which the universe is filled standing proudly up far beyond the reach of All terrestrial things still pile on your thousands and millions of thin leaves for we Are Only beginning to rear the mighty mass. Add millions on millions of thou Sands of Miles on these and still the num bar will Lack its due amount Bee How closely lie those thin sheets of paper How Many there Are in the Mere Width of a Span and then turn our eyes in imagination upward to our mighty column of accumulated sheets. It now contains its appointed number and our one billion of sheets superimposed upon each other and pressed into a compact has retried an Altitude of mass Milos. Trio Dustman. There he goes f a Dusky gloom hangs Over Tho roofs of great London City a Simi Lar gloom fills my room and seems to have touched All the furniture with Smoky age and As i look Down from Tho window into the gloomy Street i see him coming along slowly and crying in a. Voice like a plea for help in Lalli Tiou when the London fog is Gray to cannot Bohim very far off for he too is Gray from head to foot with Ash dust and As lie approaches us to comes out of the Mist like it phantom though in reality he is a substantial Square built deep chested Fel Low Bod with enormous Blucher shoes the solos of which Are Bright with and Clad in a Loose Blouse and trousers that Are tied up about the Knees. The Blouse is open at the Chest and is lifted to the Waist by his big Brown hands which Are tucked in his trouser pockets and his head is covered by the kind of hat that sailors Call a Sou Wester. His Only ornament is pair of ear rings and with his head thrown Unck to saunters along the Street by the Side of his cart repeating in measured tones his cry dust of of dust of sow and then he stops at a House and is has a mate who is us much like him As pea is like into the cellar bringing Forth Tho ashes and re fuse that have accumulated in Twenty four hours and when the cart which is a Square Box like affair is filled he starts for Home with his Load. What a queer Home it is it is on the outskirts of the City fax away from the finer streets and buildings. A Large space of ground is As Gray and Dusty Asun african or Western desert and is broken by Mounds of ashes some of which Are Only a few feet High while others Aro almost As High As As High in fact As the Disma Linle shanties on the Edge of the Reserva Lor in which the Dustman and his Fellows live other Cav to and other Dustman Aro con stantly coming and going dumping one Load and then returning to the City for an other and As soon As a Load is dumped it is attacked by a crowd of men women ant children who with shovels rakes and Hooks turn it Over and Over and raise stifling Clouds of dust. The Reader May think that the collections made by the Dustman Are valueless but such is not the Case. There Are More than inhabited houses in London consuming More than tons of Coal a year and besides the ashes from this creat Quantity of fuel dust Man gathers the other refuse of Tho houses. He is employed by a contractor who agrees with the corporation to re Raore the ashes fitc., out of the City and the contractor divides every Load into six parts As follows soil or Fine dust which to Brick makers for making bricks to Farmers for manure Brieze or Cin sold to Brick makers for burning Buck rags Bones and old metals sold to Marine store dealers old tin and Iron yes Sels sold to trunk makers for clamps Brick and other shells sold for foundations Road building and old boots and shoes sold to the manufacturers of prussian Blue. Sometimes much More valuable things these Are found and the Reader May remember the Romance that Charles Dick ens made out of a London our Mutual sifting Tho different parts of Tho Load that Tho Mon women and children Aro employed they Are As Busy As ants Mere old Dames take a part win v r am a11 of thera Are so covered la dust ashes that they Aro anything a want to contemplate though As a r Are useful honest and industrious members of society. 11 Duartie is what the londoners familiar Call the Dustman and Only a few know what ignorance and poverty he lives. Une would think that he would work him self it a better occupation but his family Lave been Dustman for the generations after him Are not Likely to Hange. City drug store. Trott Melville have on hand a full Stock of drugs chemicals Dye stuffs perfumery and toilet articles. Also Patent medicines Volch we offer to dealers and traders figures. Torn Melville Mckenney s Block main Street. 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