Plenty of Room. —Australia has a population of less than five million, but economists declare it could support a hundred million with ease. As a means of showing how far the world is from being overpopulated they assert that the entire population of the United States could live comfortably in the single State of Texas. A Presbyterian minister, performing public worship in the Tron church at Edinburgh once used the expression in his prayer : ‘ I ord, have mercy upon all fools and idiots, and particularly upon the Town Council of Edinburgh.'
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXII, 30 November 1895, Page 675
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91Page 675 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXII, 30 November 1895, Page 675
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