The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-12-27
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Statistics Of Marriage. Rage

II filff ffs~~. 1890
The influence of per;o,,s ~ r. a.,ten !
marriage is fully establ;sbed ~ U ss:!c,ty g
tistics in England The renort oS yae,ar tha sta
4 tr General OF births, deaths AMI ,ms NesIs-
shows that from the cessation'ot tho e.s
IN 1911 up to 1854, the number &c ,n..a: .a..'ue
was,con'inrally on The increase and az.
the latter year, for the first time IN SO -,
years, they began to decline. A snno;.t;.;.i SsiI
observer, might suppose that rho Eas,.n1,
war, which broke ont in 1854 WAS tho asn oanso
t''i Tins falling fl. But the decrease IN tho
number of marriages commenced in tba s. -,
quarter of the year. before war was' ',roc,. -,
ed and months before the waste of l;ta ca,sad
oy n stliities could afiec. lhe resnIt Tho
real cause must he found eIsewbera Itf;s
u & be found in the fact that in Noyanto,. =
iooo, the price Of wheat rose tn seventy .t,,,o
sh Kings and five pence nor .onartar noori,,
double OF what it had been in 1870 and CON.
siderable more than it had been since lSa-
I ms enormous rise was attended bv a oro.t :
eheck 10 the foreign trade of England esnc.
| cialiy with this country and Australia. mo-
duced by scarcity of wheat here and IN fbst :
colony /; and to these causes. all resolving
tht mselves really INTO one. the decline ;n
marriages is really to be attributed. .1c1 = -
Nor is this the only law deducable from
inc English marriage statistics.
he number of marriages between old mon
ana young women, which might be supposed
10 vary year by year, is annuity als,it the
same. 30 are the marriages between widow.
erS ana splnistels, and between widows and
bachelors. so also the females, married nm
"i age: appear, year after year, to be to the
i''a'es' likewise married under age, in the
proportion OF three to one. In like manner
thc number OF bridegrooms who could not
wrte their names to the marriage register
rarely varied four per cent in six wears
WINE the number Of brides who have to
make their mark exhibited a smaller ratio
50 that II allowance be made for the incrcas-
ing efforts to extend education the re. pro-
poftionWas the same year after year. Another
la" established by these statistics is that. np
20 the age OF twenty five, the number of fe-
mares marrying exceeds that of the males :;
put that after that period the number of
males marrying exceeds that of the females.
mus though women live longer than men.
their marry earlier. .-.-.
There is no doubt that similar cases would
appear in the United States if statistics of
marriages were kept here as they are in
England. Our bills of morality prove that
ine number of death annually bears GER
tam proportion to the population and that
tn's holds good universally, except in years
OF severe pestlence and even then, if the sta
'st,cs OF the entire globe could be obtained,
t Is probable that the law would still be
found to prevail. The number of Ives lost
by accidents exhibits similar uniformity.
In word, in everything which specifically
cems controlled entirely by law may be
traced, which, week bv week month hv,
month, and year by year, average: results.
thus, nature if we may so phrase it, creates
uniformity was of diversity. Annually. in
IA given populations about the same number
u births occur, and always the males slight
y exceed the females, so as to provide for
the greater degree to which the former are
liable to casulties and exposure; annually in
given population, the same number of per-
sons marry; and annually in given popula-
tion death CLAIMS the same proportion of VIC
tins.