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Show The Human Race. Some one recently made public the remark re-mark that if the whole human race were divided into families of five persons each, the State of Texas is large enough to supply sup-ply half an acre of land to each family. ,'The statement surprised some people, and not a few of them declared hastily, without performing the necessary calculations, calcula-tions, that it could not be true. But it is true. There are supposed to be about 1,400,000,000 persons living on the globe. - A half-acre to each familv of five would require one acre for ten persons, per-sons, or 140,000,000 acres in all. The area of Texas is more than 262,000 square miles, or nearly 18S,000,000 acres. Consequently there would be a surplus of 28,000,000 left over after every family was provided for, which would be sufficient suffi-cient for four orjfive times the present population pop-ulation of the United States. Not many people realize how little space would be needed to accommodate the whole human race, assembled in one place. Supposing we were to imagine every human being forming one of a vast congregation, seated in 1,400,000,000 easy chairs, each occupying a square yard of ground space. ! As there are nearly 3,100,000 square j'ards in a square mile, that number represents the size of the congregation that could be seated upon it under the conditions named ; and the whole human fomily could be gathered on a tract of 450 square miles or 21J miles each way. ' Less than two-fifths of the area of the little State of Rhode Island would suffice to give comfortable seating room to the whole human race. One-twelfth of the area of Rhode Island would be enough to afford standing room as people stand in a crowd, without crushing to every man, woman and child on the face of the globe. ... . |