The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-01
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Thc Average Duration OF Human

The Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York city have published a report on
the average duration Of human life, collect
ed carefully with view 10 aid them in the
business of life assurance. This report
shows the following facts;
People who live in the Middle and East
ern States are desirable subjects for Life AS
surance Companies. They have ienacity
of life that is highly comncndable; and
their repeated payments, year after year, go
far TO swell the income of the assurerS. In
the Western States, during the last five
years, the mortality has materially increased:
while in the Southern States bordering on
the Atlantic, il has decreased. Again, the
mortality among the residents in Southern
States bordering on the Gulf Of Mexico has
increased to such an alarming extent as To
render it almost against The interest Of the
companies to insure the lives of the inhab-
tants 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 a quarter as great, in pro
portion TO the population, as it was before
! 1888. This is undoubtedly owing TO tue
! creased facilities for obtaining the comforts
4 and necessares of life in that State.
( The average duration of human life is
worked out in a very cool and systematic
manner, and proves that the dangerous period
for Young America is, of course, after in
I iancy--the age OF twenty, or thereabouts.
When man gets to be thirty years OF age,
4 his prospects Of further existence ale quite
/ fair, but decreases rapidly from sixty. Some
curious variations are, however, observable
/ in this general rule; for we find in the COM
/ paratiye security Of life at different stages
the apparent anomaly of two points of max
! ina and two of minima, namely, at ages
| twenty-seyen and forty-two for maxima,
aud at twenty-four and thirty five for mini
/ ma. In other words, the value of life or
4 chance of living during the year, increases
/ from the age of twenty four TO twenty
/ seven; decrease from the latter age to that
OF thirty-iOur; again rapidly increases from
( the age of thiTty-iuur to that OF forTy-two,
after which the value again rapidly dccreas-
es, and with considerable regularity To the
close of life. Thus, those OF our readers
who are now in their twenty-seventh, and
those in their forty-Second year, stand a
better chance than less favored mortals OF
seeing the next anniversary of their birth.
Notwithstanding this conSoling reflection,
we would not, however, advise them to 60
too much in the sun, TO drink 10 freely oi
ice water, or to attempt To read President
Buchanan's next message.
For bachelOrS-thOse very lShmaels oi
society, who find everybody 5 hands against
them-wc have little that is consOlatory tC
offer. If they consult the interests of the
Life Assurance Companies and feel any
desire to possess length Of days and live
long in the land, they will at once rush to
matrmony for, though the annual mortali.
~ among husbands at the Younger ages is
excessively high, two hundred apd ninety
three Young husbands under twenty-five
years old dy ing to every sixty-seveu bache-
lOrS of the same age, yet the annual mortal
ity among bachelors above the age of TWEEN
" is from seyenty-four 10 fUrty-one pei
cent greater than that among husbands
At least that is the result OF statistics o
French mortality, aud may hold good 10 s
greater or less extent in the United States
Thus, the duti Of every honest man is 1,
take care of himself ill he IS twenty, then
take q wife, and sicn take out an insurance
policy on his life.
Here are few more of the French sta
tistics, interesting TO women. Is sAeIns thai
, they can exist in the unmarried state better
than the stronger sex, for while One hun