St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25
Jewish Vital Statistics.

"LIfe-of Christi" gives some interesting
vital statistics regarding the Jewish ma
ton. A series of measurements made
on an extended scale in Russia, in 1845,
show that persons of Jewish lineage are
slightly inferior in height to most other
nations, their average being about five
feet four and half inches (64.46,) while
other races range from five feet, six
inches to over five feet, eight inches
(66.15 to 68.10,) in height. These meas
urements show that the Jews are no
tlceable on account of their length of
body. In the African race the trunk
only consists of thirty two per cent of
the entire body; other races range
from thirty-feur to thirty-fve per cent ;
while in the case of the Jews the body
is thirty-six per cent of the whole frame.
As the body is the seat of vitality this
condition is largely in favor of the jew
lsh race, as it regards their powers of
endurance and their prospects for long
life.
Statistics also show that the Jews are
more fruitful than other races, the num-
Der OF births among them averaging
twenty eight, to twenty-five among
other races or one hundred and twelve
Jewish births, to each one hundred of
other races. The statistics of longevity
place the average period of Jewish life
at forty-six years, that of other races
being thirty-four; difference of about
thlrty-three per cent in favor of the
Jew. The number of still-bOrn children
in population of one hundred thou
sand averaged eighty-nine among the
Jews, as compared with one hundred
and fOrty-three of the other races. Out
of a hundred children of other races,
only forty-fOur attained the age of four.
teen years; but of Jewish children fifty
reached the same age; so also while
out OF certain number of children
born, twelve of other races reach their
sixteenth year, out of the same number
twenty Jews would attain the same
age.
The births among the Jews show a
marked distinction, there being one
hundred and twelve boys born to each
one hundred girls, while among other
races, the proportion is one hundred
and five boys to one hundred girls. The
Jews have been remarkably exempt
from pestilence, typhus and drOpsy, and
in the dark ages their exemption from
plague drew upon them the supersti-
tious hatred of those around them. In
latter times they have been similarly
exempted from cholera and other cpl
denies. They are susceptible to skin
diseases, but the testimony of physi-
clans represents them as singularly ex-
empt from scrOfula, consumption, and
especially those diseases that are pc
culiar cOncomitants of vicious and de-
praved lives.
Such facts and figures as these are
eloquent teachers to those who have
ears to hear. Oppressed, exiled and
down -trodden for eighteen centuries
scattered among all lands and hated of
all nations; without king, priest, sacri-
fee, or any political head or religious
center how is it that they maintain
their existence, their nationality, their
influence, and, on an average, live a
third longer than their oppressors, their
neighbors and their associates
If human life is valuable this ques-
ton should be answered. If twelve
years added life in the prime of man
hood to a lace that are eternally dosing
and dOctoring and travelling around the
world in search of health; then it is
worth our while to learn why the jew
ish race ever Outlive the races that sur
round them.
What is it that distinguishes this peo-
ple9 Simply an old parchment roll,
written in language long called
dead" That roll contains a record of
the origin of their nation and of other
nations; that roll, ages ago, declared
that they should be scattered in all
lands and among all peoples, without
king, prince, priest or sacrifice, because
of their transgressiOns but that roll
has in it Il law given, they say, by AL
mighty God from the summit of Mount
Sinai "a law which regulated not
merely their political and organic ex-
istence, which is now interrupted, but
which regulates their food, their cloth
ing, their births, their marriages and
their burials; which touches their So
cial, sexual and personal habits at every
point, and the observance of which dis
tinguishes them from all the swarming
peoples among whom their lot is cast.
This roll, this book, the distinguish
ing characteristic of the oldest, the
purest bloOded, the strongest and the
longest-lived race which walks the
globe, said by infidels to be a pack of
falsehoOds and absurdities, concocted
by priests and knaves, and imposed
upon superstitious fools-has kept that
people in existence, through the wreck
of eighteen hundred years, in which the
mightest empires have perished from
the earth, and now gives them thirty
three per ceHt more life than their Gen
tile, infdel, dram-drinking, pork eat
ing, law-breaking neighbors. 1t has
trained them in such morality that the
most loathsome diseases of civilization
are unknown among them and that in
the first hundred years of the existence
of the United States of America, no Jew
was ever convicted or executed for tax
ing the life of fellOwman!
Let infdels compare this record with
that of the Red Republic and La Com,
mune in France, and inquire how it il
that the contrast between the two is 81
sharp. And let men who think life i.
worth anything to them, ponder the
words recorded in that ancient book
: "My son, forget not my law; but le
, thine heart keep my commandments
for length of days and long life, ant
peace shall they add to thee."-Prov
A: l, 2.
= Whoever gave man that law, knew
! what man needed to make him health
full and long lived. Have the skeptic
> of to-day any Improvements to suggest
If so, they are in order.-Ihe AymOry.
Remembered but Twisted Little.
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