Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
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In 1880 there were so, 600, 900 of people
in this country, ana about $50. coo more
males than females, says the Pniladel-
phia Times. That was only because
more males were born, the females live
the longest of the centennarians 1,409
were men and 2,607 were women. The
boys start out nearly 1000. coo ahead and
are in the majority until the 10Th year.
when the girls are a little more numerous.
Sweet 10 is a numerous age, anyhow.
After that, first one and then the other is
IN the majority, the girls gradually gain
ing after SO and leaving the men far be
far behind after rs. To balance this lon
gevily of the females, in almos: every
state d few more boys are born; not many
more, bat almost a(waysa few. Ii is
astonishing 10 see where the census gives
thousands ard hundreds of thousands
OF boys and girls under I year od
there are, with one or TWO oX
captions, always q few hundred more
boys, and only a few hundred more. In
only six Of The forty nine states and ter
rltOries are more girls born, and IN these
states they are very slightly ia excess
from eleven 10 eighty. These exceptions
arc Arizona, De,eware, Florida, Louis
ara, Montana and North Carolina. The
fact that the females are in the majority
m all the original thirteen states but
Delaware and North Carolina, especially
in Massachusetts and New England, has
created the impressionthat there is some
thing IN the climate or in the people that
produces more women than men. This
IS a popular but e~gregious error. In
Massachusetts there were, in 1880, i33
more boys than girls under I year of age.
The males are in the minority in almost
all the eastern states because many OF the
young mn 20 west. AL over the nfsi
there Is an excess Of men, and those who
are not foreigners have been Withdrawn
from the states farther east.
Ia the new states aud territories this is
most noticeable. In Idaho, for instance,
here are twice as many males as females,
but the male infants aIe only a little in
excess of the females. Thc west is
drawing heavily on the manhood Of the
east From his all he old states have
sutT red. Massachusetts seems 10 have
lost more thar any. There are parts e
northern OHIO which are portions It
New England removed Massachusetts,
shows the loss and OHIO sho IS the gan.
Another curious fact is that while IA !
over the country more boys than pirs
are born, IN cities and tow ns there are
more girls. Between the ages of , ana
II inclusive there are 4 $50 more girls
titan boys in New York county, 1 1OS in
Kings county, 2,725 more III the city of
Btltimore. 1903 more in SnH Tx county,
Massachusetts, (Bostop( 2,0U9 more IN
Cook county (Chicagol Illinois; ? l3l
more in the city of st. Louis,
l,97t more in Philadelphia county and
2,Gi3 mOr IN the parish of Orleans. AL
these cities except New Orleans arc in
STATES where more boys than girls are
Dorn. In Georgia there are 1877 counties,
AID in all but twenty six Of them there
are more boy than girls, These twenty
six counties include the eleven large
owns and cities. Strange that not one
of the CIT es should be left out Stranger
still, the excess Of girls is about in pro
portion to population. Savannah leads
of with 528 more girls thsn boys; At
lanta, 3S5; Augusta, 3h4; Macon, 154;
Columbus, 1871; Gainesville, l&3; Rome,
80; Athens, so; Albany, 10; Griffin, II,
and Americas 7. Savannah, though she
has a somewhat smaller population than
Atlanta, has a larger excess Of girls.
This seems TO be peculiar 10 Old cities
Ii is SO with Baltimore, New Orleans,
and New York. The excess is greater in
New Orleans than anywhere else. Is
this a peculiarly of the French? The
facts present a question worth studying.
Are there fewer men in the cities than in
the country?