The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-24

and the hero expires amid visions of
battle.
Charge, Chester, charge; on, Stanley, on
Were the last words OF Marmion.
LONGEVITY OF LIFE.
"a very large number of deaths are at
tributed to old age" continued the ply
stefan, ''yet few, even of the oldest, die
purely from exhaustion or gradual de-
cay; some positive disease in most cases,
overwhelms the small remains of vitality.
Yet death from actual old age is not inn
possible and must be the sweetest death
of ALA sleep indeed that wakes in eter-
nifty. In regard to longevity, it is assert
ed that the United States is more favor
able to long life than any other country.
If i cannot abide entirely by that opinion,
/ can at least agree that this country has
and can produce ten centenarians to any
one of any other land, and ! think Wash
ington's body servants affirm my state
ment The average of human life
is thirty-three years. One-quarter die
previous to the age of seven years, one
half before reaching seventeen; so those
who pass their teens enjoy felicity re-
fused to one-haf the human species.
In every 1000 persons only one reaches
beyond the nineties; in every 100, only
six reach the age of sixty-fiye, and not
more than one in 500 lives to eighty years.
OF the upwards of 1,000,000,00 900 inhabi-
tants of the globe, one-third die every
year, 81, S24 every day, $3.50 every hour
and sixty every minute. Married persons
live longer than single; tall men longer
than short ones, and women have more
chances of life in their favor previous to
being fifty years of age than men have,
but fewer afterward. Persons who are
born in spring generally grow more robust
than those who come into the world al
other seasons. Deaths are more frequent
by night than by day"
HOURS FATAL TO LIFE.
"Have the hours most fatal to life eve
been ascertainedP
Eyes to certain extent, | have tn
data here of some very interesting con
illusions ascsrsained in 1850 instances o
, death at all ages. The examples ar
! taken from all conditions OF life an,
I during period Of several years II tn
deaths Of the 1850 had occurred indiffeI
emily at any hour during the "a hours
120 would have occurred at each houl
!. But this was by no means the case. Their
! are two hours in which the proportion
! we're remarkably below this-7two min
ma, in fact--namely, from midnight
one o'clock, when the deaths were S3 pc
Z cent. below the average, and from moo
to one O'Clock, when they were 2O9 pr
!. cent. below. From 3 to 6 o'clock A. \
! inclusive, and from 8 to Z P. n. there
! q gradual increase in the former OF q
4 per cent. above the average, in the latter
: 81 per cent.
: The maximum of death is from 5 to
! o'clock A. NJ, when tits 40 per cent. abo'
y the average; the next, during the ho'
y before midnight, when it is twenty-i'
a per cent. in excess; a third hour OF e
= cess is that from 3 to 10 o'clock in Il
i morning, being ia per cent. aboy
q From 10 A. M. to p. NJ. the deaths a
~ less numerous, being 169 per cent belc
!, the average, the hour before noon bel
- the most fatal. From o'clock p. NJ.
~ Up. NJ, the deaths rise 81 per cent. abo
Il the average, and the fall from that no
:; to II p. N. averages 81 per cent, bell
the mean. During the hours from y
IL o'clock in the evening there is mi
mum Of 81 per cent. below the averaI
Thus the least mortality is during m
day hours, namely from 10 to 3 o'clo
q. the greatest during early morning hou
= from 3 to 6 o'clock.