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Show BALANCE KEPT BY NATURE Increase of the Human Race Seems to Be Regulated by Wars and Other Devastations. ; Every year, according to scientists who attempt to keep the general records, rec-ords, at least 80,000,000 human beings are born on this earth and 60,000,000 or 70,000,000 die, This indicates, daily birth rate of about 220,005 and a death rate of 180,000. The daily increase in population therefore is about 40,000. The total population of the globe is estimated at 1,800,000,000. The ravages of war do little to impede im-pede the increase. Far more effective have been the upheavals of nature. The Franco-Prussian war killed about 130,000 in seven months. The death roll of the Russo-Japanese reached about 200,000. A single earthquake (1737, in India) has been estimated to have caused 300,000 deaths. The fatalities fa-talities of the Messina earthquake in 1908 cannot have been far short of 100,000. A tidal wave in 1896 drowned 27,000 persons in Japan, causing a ! greater loss of life than the whole j war with China in 1894. The earth- . quake in Japan in 1703 is said to have killed 200,000 people. The Lisbon 1 earthquake in 1755 destroyed 50,000 j human lives, while 40,000 were lost' in the same year in earthquakes in Persia. |