Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-10-18
7 no Poculiarities of our Race.

number of languages spoken is 1904. The num-
Der of men in the world is about equal to tn. mum.
ber of women. The average of human life is 80
years. One quarter die before the age Of T. One
half before the age of II. To every 1000 persons.
one only reaches 100 years To every 100. only .
reach 6j years; and not more than in 500 reach
es tho age ofS0 years.
There arc on earth 200. OO0O 600 Of inhabitants
OF these, 1893. 1873 die every year: 1880 every
honr, and GO every minute-or ON" for every
ond. The losses are about balanced by an equal
number Of births. The married arc Longer i,rcd
than The single; and above ALL thos" who observe
IA sober and industrious conduct. Tall men live
longer than short ones. Women have more chan
ces Of life previous to the age Of 50ycars than
but fewer after.
The number of marriages is in proportion of -
to 100 Marriages are more frequent after the
cquinoxcs-that is. during the months of June
and December. Those born in spring are general
ly more robust than others. Births and deaths are
more frequent by night than by day, Number of
men capable Of bearing arms is calculated mt one
fourth Of the population.
According to the last census Of Great Britain,
the English people in Scotland numbered 1850
males and IL. 234 females; the Scottish people in
England and Wales, Go704 males aud 1854 f.
males; Irish people in England and Scotland 2lo.-
397 males and 100. $50 females.
| The males in tho three islands ut the soldiers
age Of 20 to 40, amount to o,Uou.UN three hun.
dred thousand men. So that. with good militia
system. and such degree military discipline as
Experience in this country has proved can he Mt
tnined by volunteers England might bid defiance
to all Europe in arms.
| Why THE Democracy SnorLD co FOR PRorEc-
TIVE TARIFr.--We can perceive special reasons
why the Democratic party may now consistently
advocate such IN increase Of duties imports as
Ishal suffice to meet the wants of the Government
without reducing it to the necessity oftwicca year
lgoing into the market to borrow money for its
daily support. For we remember it was the
lprecept of Democracy, in the DAYS Of President
Jackson, that "they who trade on borrowed capital
ought 10 break" and are sure that lover
of his country can willingly see her reduced to a
condition which looks to bankruptcy rs it's natural
and deserved retributon, we can hardly understand
why all true Democrats of the Jacksonian school.
should deprecate such catastrophe as well in
it's in its effects. present the condition
of the Federal Treasury exposes it, and with the
credit of the country, to the disastrous fate invok
ed by jackson. and all who hold to the Justice of
that sentiment should naturally be the most eager
lao remove the grounds which it is affirmed
So long as the Government continues to borrow.
the believers in this Democratic dictum may well
tremble for its honor and safety. the loss of which
under the circumstances designated, would be at
tended by the aggravating thought that that
loss had been the result of criminal folly,
against which the nation might have guarded il it
had kept constantly before its eyes the penalties of
trading on borrowed capital. National InteLi-
gencer.
FATAL AccIDENr-DRArH OF A Prominent CIrl-
zEN.-Our readers will learn with profound regret
of the sudden DEATH by accident this morning of
Mr.. William Bayley. one of the best and most
useful of our citizens. Mr.. Bayley, as is well
known, was by profession a slater and met his