Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-07-21

AVERAGE DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE
The Mutual Life Insurance Company Of
New York City have published report
on the average duration of human life,
carefully collected with view to aid them
in The business of life assurance. This re-
port shows the following facts:
People who live in the Middle and Eas-
tern States are desirable subjects for Life
Assurance Companies. They have ts-
nacity Of life that is highly cOmmendable;
and their repeated payments, year after
wear. 90 far to swell the income of the as
surers. In the Western States, during the
last five years, the mortality has materially
increased; while in the Southern States
bordering OF the Atlantic it has decreased.
Again, the mortality among the residents
in Southern States bordering on the Gulf
of Mexico has increased 10 such an alarm
ing extent as to render it almost against
the interests of the companies to insure the
lives Of the inhabitants in that vicinity
Perhaps one of the most curious results
of the investigation is that showing that The
mortality in California is not more than
quarter as great, proportion TO the popula-
ton, as it was before 1853. This is un-
dOubtedly owing to the advancing civiliza-
ton there and the increased facilities for
obtaining the comforts and necessaries Of
life in that State.
The average duration of human life is
worked out in ye,y cool and systematic
,',~,nrr,and proves that the dangerous peri
cd for Young America is, Of course, after
infancy-th1 age Of twenty, or theresbouts.
When man gets to be thirty years of age
his prospects of further existence are quite
fair, but decrease rapidly from sixty. Some
curious variations are, however, observable
in this general rule; for we find in the com.
parative security Of life at different sges,
the apparent anomaly Of two points Of max
ina and two of minima, namely at ages
tweDty-seven and forty-two for msxima, and
at tweniy-four and thirty-fve for miniua.
In other words, The value of life or chance
Of living during the year, increases from
The age Of twenty-four 10 twenty seven;
decrease from the latter age to that of thirty
four; again rapidly increases from the age
of thirty-four to that of AZ, after which the
value again rapidly decreases, and with
considerable regularity, 10 the close of life
Thus those Of our readers who are now in
their twenty-seventh, and those in their
forty second year, stand better chance
than less favored mortals, Of seeing the next
anniversary Of their birth. Notwithstand-
ing this consoling reflection, we would not
however, advise them to go too much in the
sun, to drink too freely of ice water, or to
attempt TO read President Buchanan's next
message.
For bachelors-those very Ishmaels Of
society, who find everybody's hands
against them-we have little that is consol..
atory. If they consult the interests Of the
Life Assurance companies, and fee any de-
sire to possess length Of days and live long
in the land, they will al once rush 10 mstri-
mony, for, though the annual morlsily
among husbands at the younger ages is
excessively high, two hundred and ninety.
three young husbands under twenty years
old dying to every sixty-seven bachelors Of
the same sge, yet the annual mortality oil
bachelors above the age of twenty is from
seventy-four TO fOrty-One per cent, greater
that the among husbands. At least that i:
the result Of statistics Of French mortality
and may hold good to greater or less ex
tent in the United States. Thus, the duty
of every honest man is to take care of him
self till he is twenty, then take wife, ant
then take out an insurance policy on his life
Here are few more Of the French sta
tistics, interesting to women. 1t appears
that they can exist in unmarried life bette
than the stronger sex, for while one HUI
bred married men die, one hundred and sew
snty.four bachelors yield up the ghost
whereas, only lightweight spinsters, TAX
their hnal leave. This is for the ages be
tween twenty and thirty. When between
forty and Fifty years old, one hundred ant
seventy.two bachelors and one hundred an
thirty-eight spinsters die, to one hundre
married people of the same age. Indse
vital statistics are Incorporating as 10 tn
matrimonial question. The sum total of al
their figures seem to be, "You must marry.