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Show I IN THE YEAR 1,000,000. jj The Lat Man on Karth Will Kb Smaller K Than a riy. K "The surfneo of the earth is slowly but B surely diminishing, says tho scientists. If All tho lauded portion will lo sub- v merged and the last man will bo B drowned. ft The ice is gradually acenmu1 'ng at V the north pole and slowly melting away S at tho south. Kvontually tho earth's j conter of gravity will suddenly change, i and the last man will bo crushed by the f rush of movables that will quickly ! glide over its surfaco. . There is u retarding medium in apaco causing a gradual loss in velocity in all of the planets. Tho earth, when her revolutions finally cease, will be drawn nearer and nearer to tho sun until the last man will bo literally roasted on" the face of the earth, i Beginning with the year iJOOO A. D. humanity will commence to retrograde, and by the end of the year 1,000,000 man will bo no larger and have no more intelligence in-telligence than a plant louso. In that event there will be no "last man," remarks re-marks the St. Louis Republic. I Tho sun's flros will gradually burn out and tho temperature cool; in consequence conse-quence the earth's glacial zones will I enlarge, driving shivering humanity toward the equator. At last the habl t-able t-able space will lesson to nothing uml overcrowded humanity will be frozen I in a heap. . |