Clarifying a world of rooms and endless inhabitants
The article muses on vast figures of volume and population, imagining 990 million people over 1000 centuries and 100 worlds, yielding 16 by 16 foot rooms per person. It then shifts to Mrs. Cleveland’s autumn carriage drives and a humorous anecdote about Hector in the White House and a Chicago Drummer's tale of a saloon brawl and broken glasses.