Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — DEATH OF THE LAST MAN. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF THE LAST MAN.

Scientists Tell of the Ways in Which Human Life May Expire. The St. Louis Republic has collected the opinions of a number of scientists concernihg the probably fate of the last man. They say: “The surface of the earth is slowly but surely diminishing; all the landed portion will be drowned. “The ice is gradually accumlating at the north pole and slowly melting away at the south. Eventually the earth’s center of gravity will suddenly change, and the last man will be crushed by the rush of movables that will quickly glide over its surface. “There is a retarding medium in space causing a gradual loss of velocityfin all of the planets. The earth when her revolutions finally cease, will be drawn-nearer and hearer to the sun until the last man will be literally roasted off the face of the CBiT*tll “Begining with the year 3000 A. D. humanity will commence to retrogade, and by the end of the year 1000000 men swill be no longer and have no more intelligency than a plant louse. In that event there will be no ‘last man.’ “The sun’s fires will grad ally burn out and the temperature cool; in consequence the earth’s glacial zones will enlarge, driving shivering humanity towards the equator. At last the habitable space wiU lessen to nothing, and overcrowded human ity will be frozen in a heap.” Whun In the crowded thoroughfare* of city life you see young maidens with cheeks fair as country roses, give them credit for using Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. The hello girl at the telephone exchange has much to answer for.