The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-02

1AAo oakoAS Sb HCI llld
s~tatisticians. estimated in the yea,
1891 the population of the world a,
1.4S0.000,0O persons. More than one.
half of this estimated number was
based upon the results of actual. cen.
suses, and the remainder was care.
fully estimated. We shall probably
not be far away from the truth if we
say that there are now Gin A. d. 1919
1.s00,000.00 persons on the earth.
If In Ammo Domini l a man had
then desired to be hailed in a later
world. he could nave achieved his
desire by then investing the equivalent
OF a modern American cent at five per
centum compound interest per an
num-. the interest to accumulate year
by year for the benefit of future gem
erations.
At the end of the first century of
overwhelmingly. in A. D. 100
the original cent would have grown
to $1.31. At the end of 1910 years
after Ammo Domini namely. at the
end of the year 1910 (last year)-the
orlgina! cent would have grown to the
~stupendous value of 1896, / $50, 600, 000,-
100000. 600. 600. 900. 900, 900. 600, 900,
($29.61S followed by "a 0's.)
This accumulation resulting in A.
D. 1910 from the original investment
of one cent in ammo Domini l is so
vast that no brain can realize what
is n meaning of the enormou GUAM
tity Of dollars just stated. We are
wholly unable to realize the stipend
Gus golden growth Of this original cent
unless we press into our service vari-
u aids to imaginative conception.
Imagine the earth transformed in.
to a huge fiat slab one mile thick.
floating in cnSno Lot n1,or1, 1900
and child now living in the
world - approximately 1900. 900. 900
persons-continuously discharging a
quick firing gun loaded with American
gold eagles in place of bullets for
1000 years. Each gun fires into space
1000 gold eagles per minute, which
drop over the edges of the earth.
The result is that at the end of
1000 years of continuous discharge of
gold eagles from 1900, O00, 900 of quick
nrlng guns at the rate of 1000 gold
eagles per minute from each gun, only
an infinitesimal fraction Of the money
would have thus been got rid of. The
amount to be thus drawn upon being
the $29.619 followed by 81 O's, this
being the accumulated result
or one cent invested in Ammo Domino
l al 1--WE per centum. compound inter-
est until the end of the year 1910.
All this firing away of gold eagles
would have to continue for more than
$1,000, 600. 000, 000, 900 years, in place
of for merely 1000 years, in order to
exhaus the money accumulated in A,
D.. 1910.
This Incredible result is no freak
of fancy, but a solid fact.
Let us make a solid road of gold, he
writes, from the earth to the sum-, a
road which may certainly claim to be
most costly piece of engineering
ever designed. The dimensions Of this
road of solid gold are 90, 500. 900 miles
long, more than $500, 900 miles wide.
n more than 100000 Of miles
thick. An express train travelling
along this road at the rate Of sixty
miles per hour would not reach the
u until nearly 176 years after the
date of departure from earth. This
train would be travelling continuously
for all these years upon its road OF
soid gold. Some idea of the width
n Of the thickness of this golden
ment thai it would be more than 1000
times as wide and as thick as the
diameter Of the earth and by noting
that the railway train is no ordinary
train. but that it Is approximately
1000. 000miles long from the front Of
the locomotive to the back Of the rear
observation car. The distance between
h two rails on which the wheels Of
this train revolve is about 1900
which Is therefore the approximate
distance between the two buffers on
the front of the locomotive.
BY making such a golden road as
this. and Of the dimension stated, we
could exhaust the accumulation Of