The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-01-14


Eleventh child ...... ieu.scycuiccnth child .....
or the mothers who bore children last year were
my years Of age.
Among the deaths recorded in New York last year Is
q persons whose at the time Of their death
were given as over 100 years. All except three Of these
were natives VI Ireland OF the remainder two were
horn in New York and In Maryland The best M
thoritcs in vital tstics however slow to believe
the stories OF alleged centenarans. Eleven men aud
women reported Of 100 years and over died in Phia
dclpha during 1919 and Gs0 who had attained tic Of
eighty and
During last Novenbc uhe deaths scarlet fever in
this city numbered ~. against 237 for November 1877,
and In December Oif against 2gg M 1877. For the week
ending Jan the number Of Of scarlet fever
ported TO the Board of Health 22t against - for tie
same week last This disease is now prevailing In
England During two weeks In December 1t caused 40
out Ut 77O5 deaths in 20 English towns and in Liverpool
60 ont o 7O3 deaths and IN Birmingham O. out OF 40
1T stated some time since in prominent medical
Journal Ncw York" says tie London Ncivti Times.
that medical men OF that city found average Of not
than three children In family. Among the higher
classes very few families had more than Ave Children
many had but child. and many had none AZ all
Statistic, adduccd which prove that the decline in
the birth rate Ut New Enelandcrs-whch corresponds
very nearly 10 that Of Francois sodccidcd that the birth
rate of stock ofncopc snow only about uncai that
Writing Of New England In the seventeenth century.
Prof Moc- Colt Tyler says in li- History Of American
Literature recently Iubi,acd The typical household
OF Sew England Of patriarchnl popuousnsss,'
and add. n note The sturdy patriot Roger Clapp Of
Dorchester happy in the possession OF fourteen
children. Cotton Mathcr was not abundant In chil
dren he IN books since Of the former he had only
fifteen. Benjamin Franklin was ono OF seventeen chill
dren William rhps, who attained the honor Of knight
hood AMI became royal Governor Of Massachusetts,
was tie son OF poor gunsmith Of Pcmaqud, aud be-
onlcd to hocN Of twentysN children all by the same
father and mother aud twenty ono Of them SONS"
Smallpox which. thanks to persistent vaccination.
has been almost entirely driver from Sew YORK, Is
working terrible havoc In Ccara. Brazil, where. ac-
corng to the report OF the Captain Of the steamship
city Of Rio janciro the people were AZ last accounts
dying Of It with such rapidly and In such great numbers
that lit was impossible to make collins to supply the
demand The people dug bitches and tumblcd into them
the unshroulcd corpscs eight or ten at time
Moro boys born than girls In the United King
DOM says the London Ts. d" but there more VIZ.
men than men living among Us Its a mere matter OF
counting AMI the result Is that there nearly mil
lion females than males In Great Britain and Ire
mnd Up 10 the OF ten the numbers living Of the two
probably not unequal, ani it's then that the
balance which originally lay on the side OF the males
SHIFTS 10 the other Il must not be concluded that
the change is entirely due 20 an excess Of mortality
among the males II is no doubt true that the actiyc
lives ~ men expose them 10 chances Of accident
amt peril than the scdcury lives at women. but IL must
be- remembered also that the great prepoudcrancc 81
emigration Is Of men. Some women accompany or toi-
low them, hut they relatively few, and the prcuon
dcrauce OF female life among must be attributed main.
y 90 this cause In France, with larger population.
tie excess OF women over m,n Is almost nominal
According to a memorandum taken from the books OF
81 the largest corporations m Lowell the average
earnings girls per week - in 1878 AGAINST $500
u son The price tor board per week in ISIS was 81 70
81 . ~ 1861 that while their earnings were
only S. 10 week than their board the year before
the last year they were g ~ more. Another Mas
sachu>ot- manucurn. corporation reports the yearly
earnings per hand 1870 tor eleven hours work day
.s2i7 80. in 1870 for eleven hours work s3sS - in
1874 ios hours worS. s25d - Meantime the prices
omauy the ss,nua articles which enter into the cost
oi living that is OF food clothing and shelter have
fallen that they are now lower than IN 1850.
~ .iaic plainly" says American. writing ia the
London Dty Noe., that operatives here have nothing
90 gain. but everything 10 lose in strikes at present
American operatives work longer IN week. ant be-
hove do in the number OF hours thnn IS ac'
cnmp.l,d here. As lous they do only as much, AMI
wofN only long. they Will olt-.dp THE manufacturer
here because they have c raw materials at hand, ami
work az an Advantage
"Ihavc ~ This moment" write, Nr Thonss Fletcher
90 tlc Fih VI hsi. at least ihr,o.fourths O.; INV oo
OF American Manufacture, many OF which have boon
boa.ht a. very fancy prise. 10 1t were not an absolute
uDe.-. y should Doe exceedingly foolish 90 buy Amcri
| cam t0... 90 high price % English tool. were 20 D.,
hua-it which woI'i lo te work equally we'll from ma
own practical experience. the difference between th
tyais. tatau English workman does not iu tlc hr.i m
saucc learn whata Cos, is fot AMI adapt the too, To t
/ requirements, an American workman will ~ a rule
usc his brains aul make VIVA, you want without sro.u