Show OF THE WORLD bame interesting figures concerning the entire population of the world are given io in an article recently published bythe by the denver republican the subject is 1 naturally exceedingly difficult because in regard to many countries the statistician Is placed very much in the position idu of the curious guesser of the number of weds seeds in a watermelon yet the figures given are accepted as sufficiently accurate to give an n approximately lair idea of the reseat present size ize of the human family according to wagner and buapan the german savanis savants sa our globe r inhabited by of human be inep they are distributed as filloon asia alia europe africa america oceanic islands and polar regions australia the fact to la conveyed in another form in order to make maae it more clear it the entire population of the world were 1000 1000 the distribution in the various geographical divisions would he be this thi asia europe 7 africa ill aulerich Au AUL terica erica 8 82 oceanic islands and polar regions gloni re 6 5 australia 2 that is more than one half of the human family dwell in asia and nearly one quarter in europe about one inhabit africa while only one twelfth have found their way to the he american cantine cantlo eats lats the tot 1 I 1 laud land area cf f the globe is calculated to be square miles distributed abu asia aola america africa europe australia oceanic islands and polar regions A glance at these theme figures reveals atle fact that while america Is nearly four times tie the size or of europe thin latter continent pup porta more than double the population of goiti contra central and south america combined vt vast as the he population of the world tog la it atia to really insignificant when sub bub bactad to mathematical fancy work for instance every man woman and child childre we are told might be fenced in on a square twenty two miles each eaon way and thou theu have the comfortable standing room of a square yard each an expert on the bicycle would be able to make the tour round the whole assembly in about three hours and a half hair A box 1140 yards each way would hold every inhabitant of the world and yet some people have been led to imagine that the globe to la overpopulate ed and that it is ia necessary necea aary for the support of the race that a few millions be killed off occasionally to give more room to the survivors before the figures of expert statisticians such theories are evidently unable to stand aland |