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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 32, 8 February 1890, Page 4 (Supplement)

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Take your pencil and follow me, .'JJjfJJJ figure out vvnab will happen to the i . *~" , VJ™ of babies that will have been borij. - " last 1,000,000 seconds. I believe that is about the average— •* v " c every time the clock ticks.' ~ One year hence, if statistics don't be» 10 us, we will havo lost 150,000 of these lib.* 8 ' prides of the household.' A year later 53.000 more will be keep- | ing company with those that have gone beAb bhe end of the third year we find thab * 22,000 more havo dropped by h. ■ wayside. The fonrbh year they have become rugged little darlings, not nearly so susceptible to infantile diseases, only 8,000 having succumbed to the rigors imposed by the master. . , . By the time they have arrived ab the age of twelve years but a paltry few hundred leave the track ouch year. After threescore years have como and gone we find less trouble in counting the army with which we started in the fall of Of the 1,000,000 with which we began our count bub 370,000 remain ; 630,000 have <rone the .vay of all the world, and the remaining few havo forgo, ten that they ever existed. . . At tho end of eighty, or, baking our mode of reckoning, by the year 1969 A,D., there are still 97,000 giey-hafced, shaky ola grannies and grandfathers, toothless, hairi.ss and happy. , . ~, In the year 1904 our 1,000,000 babies with which we started in ISB9 will have dwindled to an insignificant 223 helpless old wrecks, 1 stranded on the shores of time.' In 1992 all bur, seventeen havo left this mundane sphere for ever, while the iastremaining wreck' will probably, in seeming thoughtlessness, watch the saads filter through the hour-glass of time, and die in the year 1997 at the ageof one hundred and eight. What a bounteous supply of food for re

flection !