The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-06-22
Life Growing Longer.
Philadelphia Record.

grows stronger" paraphrased & Physi- clan yesterday. "In the degenerate days of the Caesars, when the Roman empire was getting ready to totter and fall, the duration of the average Romans life was eighteen years Now, despite the unsavory reputation of the holy city as fever breeding center, the average age at death is forty years. The United States forge ahead of every other nation on earth in respect to the longevity of their citizens, fifty five years being the average here.
 "Of all the European nations Russia is said to be the most frequently vis- ited by the grim reaper. In some of it's remote corners forty mine deaths in every one thousand inhabitants is the annual rate. And thereby hangs a tale. Russian weather is not of neces- sity more destructive than what Gen. eral Greedy serves up to Americans, nor are our sanitary regulations so far in advance of the czar's; but when you note that there is in the empire but one physician to every 5,400 inhabi- tants, while in this country one out of every GOO affixes & bond fie NJ. D. to his name, you can form some idea of the cause of Americas greater health fulness.
 "These facts furnish food for refiec- tion to the green graduate and impe- cunious practitioner. The medical profession is overcrowded in the new world, and the throngs of physicians are so massed together that it is i'm possible for sn underling ever to scramble up to seat in the room that is said always to remain at the top. But there is 6 great need of practition- CTS in far-away Russia, and if several shiploads of emigrants from this coun- try should go thither, armed with quinine and belladonna, they would doubtless be cordially received in the land of Cossacks and dynamiters. Knights of the scslpel would be doubly welcome, as there is but one surgeon to every 100, ,000 inhabitants.
 "The average Englishman is not SO long lived as his American brother, but with that single exception he approaches more nearly to the psalm ist's threescore and ten than any other inhabitant of the earth. Elizabeth's subjects had a score of years laid to the credit of each, while Victoria's millions reach an average of fifty 1.-two years, which shows & remarkable de- velopment in three centuries. The average Londoner of to-day dies at forty seven, and the hardy Lancashire yeoman lives to be fifty-tour. Frances statistics are truly remarkable, and to the theorist might furnish reasonable proof of the success of republican gov ernment. In the past half century her average has gone booming up from twenty eight to forty-five and one- half years, which is the measure of modern Frenchman's life.
 "It is estimated that the life of humanity has gained twenty five per cent all the world over in the last fifty years. The lowest average that has been calculated is twenty three years, which represents the life expectancy of the Soudanese but even this is high when 1t is remembered that in Geneva in the thirteenth cen- tury fourteen years were all that were allotted to man. The United States census of 1850 shows that TAT per cent of the persons who died in previous decade were over seventeen years of sge; in 1860 the percentage was 7.54, and in 1880 it was 1OS5. The deaths of adults have diminished in 6 continuous ratio, 90 that the pro- portion of infant victims to the whole number of death is constantly on the