The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-01-24
NO. l..
The Duration of Human Life.

Although the Hebrew poet fixed our
years at threescore and ten, or al the Ut
most fourscore, II is comfort to know
that we may add Ave or six years 10 Inc
fourscore in this part OF tue worid--the
wear and tear of life being smaller In
these temperate climates than under tho
glowing sun of Palestine. We find btu'
| nenbach, in his Physiology, fixing on
eighiy.six as the limit of human lie.
On looking over European bills OF NOR
tali,y, he discovered ,ha. considerable
| number attained this age, but that lew
exceeded it. BY the census ol lsol.
we find ,ha, in Grea, Britain 596,O3O
persons had passed the barrier os three
score years and ten-.hat i29,ooo haa
passed rourscore that 9,S47 had iiveo
ninety years aud more-that 2,u3S al
tanned TO ninety. five years, and that 3ls
had reached more than one hundred
years OF age-two-thirds oil these cen'e-
narians being women. The average
duration Of human life, however, Is only
thirty-three years-one-quaiier dying
previous 10 the age oil seventeen. In
every 900 persons, only one reaches
one hundred years--in every lOO, only
six reach slxty-tise-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 lon-
ger than short ones;but we should lmagIne
this to be mere conjecture. Women have
more chances OF life in their favor before
fifty years Of age than men, and fewer
aiGerward. SIR Henry HaItord was in.
formed by Baron Brunow that there was
a level country Of about one hundred
leagues square, slopingto to the south on
the borders of Siberia, where a year
rarely passed in the course which some
person did not die at the age OF Que hun
dred and ,hir,y-from which it would
seem ,ha, 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 mnlma, namely, from
midnight to one o'clock, when the deaths
are So per cent below the average; and
from noon to one o'clock, when they
were ~ o-4 per Ceut peio"' ioiii 'hieo
to six o'clock, A. NJ, inclusive, and from
three 10 seven o'clock p. NJ, there is
gradual increase, IN the former OF % l-2
per cent above the average, IN the latter
5 l-2 per cent. The marimuns oil death
is from five to six o'clock A. NJ, when
1t is 40 per cent above the average; the
next during tie hour before midnight.
| when i, is 25 per cen. in excess; third
hour Of excess is that from nine TO ten
o'clock in the morning, being II l-2 per
cent above. From ten q. m, TO three p.
M. the deaths are less numerous, being
Is l-2 per cent below the average; the
hour before noon being the most fatal,
From three o'clock p. m. to sevan p.
m, the death rise to 5 l-2 per cent a.
{ bove the average, and then iall from that
, hour to eleven P. m, averaging o IL
, per cent below the mean. During the
hours from n,ne 10 eleven o'clock in the
' evening, there is a minimum OF b IL
per cent below the a, erage. Thus The
least mortality is during the midday
Q hours. namely, from ten to three O'Clock;
: the greatest during early morning hours,
. from three TO six o'clock.