Show electric light At sulia special totsc to THE ST louii loom feb 27 tho hotels ara filling up wi vi h delegates to the andua convention ot of the 1 national at lonal electric light association which W aich opens here haro tomorrow amoni among those e already ar rived are L B Still 1 I 1 of 0 Pitta pittsburgh bui calvert townley of the same city th dr r belt ball ot boston P C myers and william H brown of new naw york capt william brophy of boston aud aad E A armstrong of f new T ersee all ail are prominent in the councils ef the organization t the convention promises to be the larg lareesa eat gathering of electricians eyer ever held in this country con sparing sport lag creita E felti telti special to TUB ST louis lonia feb 27 tom allen alien and tom kelly kell y accompanied by frek watson left for new orleans today the two former will second ed smith against goddard not much interest is mavil manifested ested locally in the southern carnival and the delegation deleza tion from this city will not be large i I 1 will ill eater Fol politic luel special to tux feb 57 the annual sea aes sion aion of the state council of the order of united american mechanics opened at america hall at ton ten this mo moraine rn it is understood that among the he matters to be considered is one looking to the organization taking an active part in politics fredia aba poor special to ans T E I 1 HOME feb 27 there was a striking scene on oa yester yesterday dayi which was the octave of the papal jubilee at the he t church of san ban lorenzo in where the holy father received his episcopal consecration five hundred poor people of both sexes assembled in inthe in the class room of the edifice and were ware presented by the central execl tiyo a commission with complete suits 0 raiment funds for which were contributed by ane members embers m of the romanina society they were wr re then conducted to the tabla of the eucharist Suc Such barist arist and after the celebration of mass they were given a dinner in one of the large halls balls ot oi the town A striking feature of this part of the pro gramme was the fact that the penniless guests were waited upon and served by ladies and gentlemen zent lemen of the highest rank of the roman nobility A french statistician who has teen been studying the military and other rec records with ath a alow view of determining abe height of f ap men at differ different edit periods bas ij I j some wonderful results lie he has not only solved some perplexing problems in regard to the past of the human ra race de bat buti is salsa also enabled to c calculate alc its future anti and to deter determine m no the exact period perio a when man will wall disappear e ar from the earth the recorded facts extend over nearly three centuries it is found that in 1610 the average height of man in enrobe Europ ewas was ia 5 meters or say five feet nine inches in I 1 1790 90 it was five feet six inches in ill 1820 0 it was five feet five inches and a fraction at the present time it is five feet three and three thre e fourths inches it is easy to deduce from these figures a rate of regular and gradual decline in human stature an and a then apply this working worling backward and forward to the past and to the future by this calculation it is determined that the stature of the first men attained the surp surprising g average of sixteen feet nine inches truly there were giants on the earth in those days the race had already ire ady deteriorated in the days of og 09 and goliath was a quite degenerate offspring of the giants coming down to later time swe find that at the beginning of our brathe era the average heighton height of man was nine feet anil and in the time of charlemagne magnett it was wap eight feet eight inches but the most astonishing result of th this Is scientific study comes from the applice application a of the same inexorable law of diminution to the future the calculation shows that by the year A D the stature of the average man will be ba reduced to fifteen inches at that epoch there will be only lilliputians Lilliput ians on the face of the earth and the conclusion of the learned statistician is irresistible that the end of the world I 1 will certainly arrive for the inhabitants will haye have become so small that they will finally disappear finish by disappearing di pear ng as the french idiom expresses it from the terrestrial globe |