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Show BALANCE KEPT BY NATURE I " Increase of the Human Race Seemi to B Be Regulated by Wars and ,U Other Devastations. .. B ' Every year, according to Bdentliu t who attempt to keop tho general re- H I, ords, at least 80,000,000 human belngi I D8 nro born on UiIb earth and 60,000,000 I h or 70,000,000 die. This Indicates a I dally birth rato of about 220,000 and I t a death rato of 180,000. The daily B it lncreo80 In population therefore li B A! nbout 40,000. Tho total population ot B ffl tho globo la estimated at 1,800,000,000. B co Tho ravagca of wnr do llttlo to lm- B & pedo tho increase Par moro otTeciIrt B b) hnvo boon tho upheavals ot nature. B ev Tho Frnnco-Prusslnn war killed about B Wl 130,000 In seven months. Tho death B roll of tho Russo-Jnpancso reached B "' about 200,000. A slnglo earthquake B la (1737, In India) has been estimated to B havo caused 300,000 deaths. Tho fa- In tnlltlcs of tho Messina earthquake In I to 1008 cannot hnvo been far short ot 100,000. A tidal wnvo In 1S9S drowned I lo 27,000 persons In Japan, causing a I in greater loss of llfo than tho whole I Al wnr wJth China In 1891. Tho earth- sr quako In Japan In 1703 Is said to hare I fl killed 200,000 people. Tho Lisbon " enrthquako In 17SC destroyed SO.OM B lh human lives, whllo 40,000 wero lost la B M tho same year in. earthquakes in Per- I n sin. B an |