Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — When Will the World be Full. [ARTICLE]

When Will the World be Full.

Without asking counsel of Malthusianism, but merely by applying the nineteenth century average of Increase to the future, Mr. J. Holt Schooling announces in tho July Cosmopolitan that "the world will be full” in tho year 2250, at which time it will be inhabited by D 2,000 oflMons of persons, averaging 1,000 to the square mile. This good-humored prediction, however, based on the assumption that tho rate of 1 per cent per year of Increase in tho population of the earth, which obtained during the last century, will continue Indefinitely, is only Incidental to several Important and presumably reliable deductions concerning the movement of the earth's population during the last century. The Bismarck room in the official residence of the imperial chancellor at Berlin has now been renovated and Count V6n Bulow has entered into possession using as his desk a table bearing the inscription: "Writing table of Prince Bismarck, 1878-1890.” Mme. Bordas, once a great niuslc hall celebrity in Paris, and the rival of Theresa during the second empire and for some time after its fall, died recently in her native town of Monteux, in southern Vaucluse, where she was born sixty years ago. General Lew Wallace Is at work upon his autobiography. He made a trip to Kentucky recently to confer with some veterans on certain features of the battle of Shiloh which will be in. eluded in the work.