The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-01
FACTS ABOUT LIFE,

Merchants Live Longer Than Others and
Clerks Are the ShOrtest-Lived.
The statistics recently published
by a leading life insurance company
contain many interesting points.
Americans live longer than our for
eign- born citizens.
Among foreigners, next to the
Americans, stand the Irish, English
and Germans. in the order named.
Few Germans or Englishmen die of
apoplexy.
Germans furnish the highest per-
centage of suicide
Native Americans are comparatively
free from diseases of the liver.
Typhoid fever has the most victims
in the Northwest and the fewest in
the South. but in the latter section
there is large mortality from other
zymotic diseases and more liver dis
ease. but less kidney disease.
According to the facts collected by
this particular insurance company the
conditions in the South are less favor
able to life than in other parts of the
Union.
The report says:
"From comparison of the various
statistical tables it appears that the
occupation most conducive to longevity
is that of merchants. Next to these
in expectation of life comes farmers,
then follows in succession doctors.
lawyers. clergymen. shopkeepers and
hotelkeepers. 1t may be mentioned
that among hotel and saloonkeepers,
brewers and wholesale liquor dealers,
the deaths from consumption, heart
disease and zymotic diseases are COM
paratively few. while the rate for nerv-
Gus diseases and diseases of the liver
is extremely high. Brokers follow
next to hotelkeepers as regards aver
age length of life, and then mechanics.
while the very last on the list, rank
ing even after those engaged in occu-
pants classed as hazardous and un-
healthy" are clerks and persons en-
gagged in similar wholly sedentary &C.
cupation. The statistics show that
one of the chief causes of short dura,
ton OF insurance for this class is the
prevalence among them of consump-
ton. which causes the death of almost
one-third of the to tai number
AS these statistics are based upon
two thousand cases watched during
the past twenty-six years they are of
considerable value, but they are not by
any means couclusive.-Atlant Con.
stitution.
the present estimated population
d the United States is $4,000, 600. The
annual growth by natural increase
ana immigration is placed at about
l.OOO,OOO. The estimated foreign pop-
ilation is not far below $4,000. 900.
-Consclence is too great a power in
the nature of man to be altogether
subdued; it may for a time be re-
pressed and kept dormant, but con-
lectures there are in human life which
awaken it; and when once reawakened,
IL flashes on the sinners mind with all
the horrors OF an invisible ruler and a
future Judgment. BAR.
me popular Croesus of Spain re-
Gently died in the person of the Mar
gus de Urquijo. His executors have
paid into the Spanish treasury success
ZION duties amounting to EGG, 900 on
ms fortune. which exceeded five mil
lons sterling. This was gained in
nIty years. The owner had begun life
Is Basque village lad, and died a
Senator, grandee and ex-mavor of
Madrid He left f180. 600 in requests
70 charities in his native province.
many OF which he founded himself
ana *zo.oOO for masses for himself