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Facts In Human Life

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
April
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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of languages spakeu is tliree tliousatid and sixty-four. The number of men ir about cqual to the number of woiuen. The average of human life is thirty-two years. One quarter die before the age of seven ; one half before the age of soveuteen. Of every ono huudreil, only six reacli sixty-üve yoars : and not more than one in five hundred reaoliea the age of eighty-five yeara, Tliero aro ou tbe eartli one thousand inillion inhabitants. Of theso thirty-three millions three liundred and tliirty-throe thousaud tlireo lundred and thirty-three die every year, imety one thousand oiglit hundred and t'iventv-four die every day, and seven thousáud seven hundred and eighty every ïour, aud sixty every miiiute or oue every seoond The losses are about balanced Dy an equal number of births. The married are longor lived than the single, and above all. those wlio observe a sober ,ind iudustrious conduot. Woinen have more chancos of life previous to the age of fifty yeara than men ; bat fewer after. The number of. marriages is m proportion of seventy-ö! f" !np htfidrgd.

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Old News
Michigan Argus