Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Men Will All Be Midgets. [ARTICLE]

Men Will All Be Midgets.

A French statistician has just cot; ( to the conclusion that the race of n:< n is c ntinuaily decreasing in height, am; that it will not be long before it wil: wholly vanish from the earth. By th t. calculation it is determined that th. stature oil the first men attained tn, surprising average of 16 feet S) inchis Coming down to later times, we fim that at the beginning of our era tin average height of man was 9 feet, aim irt the time of Charlemagne It was feet 8 inches, a fact quite sufficient ti. amount for the heroic deeds of the paladins. Hut the most astonishing result o this scientific study comes from tin application of the same inexorable law o. diminution to the future. The ea! i ulatibn shows that by the year 400 A. D. the stature of trie average mai will be reduced to 15 inches. At thu epoch there will be only liliputians or. the earth. And the conclusion of tin learned statistician is irresistible, thai “the end of the world will certainly ar rive, for the inhabitants will have become so small that they will finally disappear. ”