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Show It is with pleasure, we welcome the Wind River Mountaineer to our exchange ex-change table after an absence of a few months. It resumed publication on the 2d. instant. Mr..J. N. Ludin is again at the helm and he promises to make it lh oly for those who have been trying to work injury to the paper and property, dnring his two years absence. He says: "We want to have it distinctly nnd pos-itively pos-itively understood now and from this time forth, that we don't propose to tolerate any more monftey business. Everything ninst be open and above board, straight goods and a yard wide. If there is going to be any skullduggery, skulldug-gery, political or otherwise, the Mountaineer Moun-taineer proposes to be in it, right up to the armpits. This our ultimatum. Govern yourselves accordingly" Rock Springs Review. From a series of researches and calculations cal-culations by M. Kaveusteiu, a French geographer, it appears that over population popu-lation of the globe and the beginning of human decadence may be nearer at hand then most of us have supposed to be possible. The present population, 1, 40000,000 individuals, is distributed over the continents and islands, exclusive exclu-sive of polar region-1, in the proportion . i-i--"'iiiifi tr "-'"'iiliili ni.iinrn mile. Dividing the entire land surface, sur-face, 40,350,000, square miles into three regions, this author Puds that fertile lands occupy, in round numbers 2S,000,-000, 2S,000,-000, square miles, steppes 14.000,000, and deserts, 4,000,000.- He estimates that the maximum riumbfr of persons that can be supported throughout the respective regions Is 20T per square miles on fertile lands, 10 on steppes, and 1 per square mile on the desert. Ihe present average for India is ITj, for China 205, for Japan LM0. The in vestigator concludes that the greatest number of persons the entire land surface sur-face can sustain is 5,!i'.U,000,000. The total increase in population is now S per cent per decade being 8.7 in Europe 6 in Asia, 10 in Africa, 30 in Australia nd Oceanica, 20 in North America, and 15 in South America, and t this rate the earth will have acquired all the inhabitants it can maintain in about ISO years, or in 2072. Quito curiously, this date is about that fixed by geologists geolo-gists 'for the exhaustion of Great Britain's Bri-tain's ccal supply. |
