Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-19
THE DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE

IhE UUhA11UN OE HUMAN LIFE.
Although the Hebrew poet fixed our
years at threescore and ten, or at the ut
most, fourscore, it is a comfort to know
that we may edd five or six years to the
fourscore in this part Of the world-the
wear and tare of life being smaller in
these temperate climates than under the
glowing sun of Palestine We find Blu
menbach, in his Physiology, fixing on
eighty-six as the limit of human life
On. looking over European bills of NOR
tality, he discovered that considerable
number attained this age, but that few
exceeded it. By the census of 1851, we
find that in Great Britain 500, O40 per.
sons had passed the barrier Of threescore
years and ten-that 1885, 900 had passed
fourscore-that 9,847 had lived ninety
years and more-that 2,038 attained to
ninety-fv years, and that 319 had
reached more than one hundred years of
age-two- thirds Of these centenarians
being women. The average duration of
human life, however, is only thirty three
years-one quarter dying previous to
the age of seven years, and One-half be-
fore reaching seventeen. In every 200
persons, only one reaches one hundred
years-in every 100. only six reach
seventy fve-and not more than one in
500 lives to eighty years of age. The
married are longer lived than the single,
and tall men, it is said, live lorger than
short ones but we should imagine this
to be mere conjecture. Women have
more chances of life in their favor before
fifty years of age than men, and fewer
afterwards. Sir Henry Halfore was in
formed by Baron Brunow that there was
a level country of about one hundred
leagues square, sloping to the south on
the borders of S IBERIA, where a year
rarely passed in the course of which
some person did not die at the age of one
hundred and thirty-from which it would
seem that cold is favorable to longevity.
Persons born in the Spring are general
ly more robust than others. Births and
deaths are more frequent by night than
by day. With regard to the hours most
fatal to life, we learn from Mr.. limbs
that there are two minima, namely,
from midnight to one o'clock. when the
deaths are 83 per cent. below the aver
age; and from noon to one o'clock, when
they were 90 3-4 per cent. below
From three to six A. NJ, inclusive, and
from three to seven p. NJ, there is a
grandual increase, in the former of 23J
per cent. The maximum of death is
from FIVE to six A. NJ, when il is 40 per
cent. above the average; the next during
the hours before midnight, when it is %
per cent. in excess; third hour Of ex-
cess is that from nine TO ten o'clock in
the morning, being III per cent. above.
From ten A. NJ. to three P. M the deaths
are less numerous, being 15k per cent.
below the average; the hour before noon
being the most fatal. From three O'Clock
P, NJ. to seven P. NJ. the deaths rise TO
1.2 per cent. above tie average, and
then fall from that hour to eleven P. N
averaging 6 2 per cent. below the
mean. During the hours from nine TO
eleven O'Clock in the evening. thereis
minimum of 19 per cent. below the
average. Thus the least mortality is |
during the id-day hours, namely, from
ten to three O'Clock; the greatest during
early morning hours, from three to six
O'Clock.
DIR. Johnson used 10 say, that a habit
of looking Oh the best side of every event
is better than thousand pounds a year.
Bishop Hall quantity remarks, "For every |
bad there might be worse; and when a
man breaks his leg, let him be thankful
that it was not his neck" When Fene-
Ions library was once on fire, "God be
praised!" he exclaimed, ''ihai it is not
the dwelling of some poor man!'
On Friday last. a young lady was
fined five dollars in Albany. New York.
for splitting in another ladY's face. Snnnks