Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-12-16
THE LIFE OF A MILLION.

hldfcU Oh dn EnSllSll generation
through life, He starts with the as
snmed fact that 1,00o,0O0 children
are born. and of these he informs us
that 1l,715 would be boys. and
4SS,255 would he girls. This dis
proportion of the sexes is very
speedily reduced, for the evils with
which infants struggle in their
cradles are more fatal TO the boys
than to the girls. The most fatal
five years in the life of the genera
ton is that when they are entirely
dependent on careless nurses or
ignorant mothers, for one in every
four of the million, or 101.3S7 of the
boys and 12l, ,795 of the girls will die
before they are five years old The
million is thus reduced to 736.S1S.
The next five years the deaths are
few, and they are fewest of all in the
third five years. that between ten and
fifteen. This full growth of child
hood seems to be the healthiest pc
riod i'll the whole life Of genera
ton, but somewhat more so for bows
than for girls Then follow five
years of somewhat more liability to
disease and death This liability is
still further increased in the next
five years by consumption and other
ailments incident to the period when
growth had ceased. But in this
whole march of twenty years through
childhood and youth our million.
which have decimated twice over in
five years Of babyhood, loses but
l02,773 Of its number. and an army
Of young men and women in almost
equal proportions, and 634, ,054 in to-
tai strength. marches over. the divid
ing line of the first quarter of cen
fury. During the next ten years
less than one in ten will die, and
there will still be 56S,993 living at
thirty five years of age, when two
thirds of the women will be married.
The next ten years will be more fatal
than the last. and of those who saw
thirty-iive 66,07S will fail to reach
forty five, and of the million who
started, only 29l5 over half a million
will attain that period of life.
From that point the rise of the death
rate at each decade is terrible; 62,052
died between twenty five and thirty
five; the number increased to 66.07S
between thirty-iive and forty five;
but between forty-five and fifty five
the deaths rise to Sl,S00; and from
fifty five to sixty-five 12,OS6 will have
fallen. The number who will set
out over the next reach Of ten years
is 309,020. But the march for the
next ten years is Balaklava charge
into the jaws of death, but nearly
one half of them lin actual numbers
149905) will be left behind in the
grave before those ten years are
over. and only l6l,16 reach their
seventy fifth year The remnant
rapidly diminishes and at eighty
five only 3S.575 remain. Another ten
years and there are on the field only
2l53 people of venerable age, of
whom nearly nine out of every ten
will pass away without reaching the
centenarian's fame. The number
which will probably cross the
thresnh DID of . ,cond centur.s d.
but none of these reach 40: for the
last of the million will probably
come to his grave in his 1OSth year.
DEsIccArIoN.-A new process. re-
Gently invented to prevent staleness
of eggs is spoken of as the crystaliza
ton process. BY its agency the
natural egg is changed into an am
Der hued vitreous substance. which,
while reduced in bulk, has impaired
to it the property of remaining in
edible condition FOR years, and rc
sisting the deteriorating effects OF
climate. What is more singular than
this is that when thus treated the
eggs can be transported to any place
without injury, and can afterwards
be restored to their original condition
when desirable by adding the water
which has been artiticially removed
from the shell. This simple process
is called 'desiccating" Companies
have been organized in New York
and st. Louis for this purpose. 1,
is said that neither salt nor extran
eous matter is employed in produc-
ing "desiccation." The egg is mere
ly reduced, by the removal OF the
water, to consolidated mass of yell
and albumen. The now process:
should be thoroughly tested, as mos
of the methods of preserving eggs
which have been presented to thu
public have resulted as we'll as prs
serving the eggs.
WHITE OAKS. Anyone who ha
learned anything at all Of New
Mexico has heard Of White Oaks. L
has become celebrated Throughout
the world as having near it the rich
est gold mines that have been dis
covered in the West. Specimen
showing wire gold and nuggets wer'
among the most prominent attrac
tions at the Denver Exposition, an'
from this camp were exhibited tin
two largest masses of free gold or
there shown.
Recent developments of the mos
important mines, the Homestakes
Little Mac and Henry Clay, hav
confirmed beyond all doubt the iirs
impressions as to their value. TN
ore bodies are found to he man!
times greater than even tn
most sanguine had predicted, and IL
the deepest shafts the character o
the mineral is steadily improving,
Mr. Sam Thompson, of Clarksvill,