San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-01
BITS OF SOCIOLOGY.
Compiled for the Globe-Democrat.l

In the swamp districts of Hol-
land I-2 per cen of the conscripts
are rejected for being under 81
inches in hight.
Of 1000 men who marry,33
marry younger women, $40 marry
women of the sane age and 50
marry older women.
The highest death rate from
BIights dis ease are in Shanghai,
100 per 1O,OrO; frankfort, 40, and
Amstt I'd m 100
The annual ave rage of Grim nails
trie l in Germany for all offenses
is 222,6O4, in Italy 127 ,372, in Great
Grit lin 6S,43S
Tn, greatest average height in
any European army is found in
the Norwegian, 81 inches; the
least 10 tt Italian, 65.
The prison population OF India
is only thirty-e:ght per 100000
population, or less than half he
AutiS VI uIt dl Dlltdlu.
The British soldierre Gel 1es daily
as "a ion A ounces Ct food: Bis
cult, ~ ounces; meat, Ia; peas or
beans, Z; sugar, 2; cocoa, /.
In the cholera plaques since
1S4S the death rate has been tol.
erably uniform abort 40 per cent
OF the cases terminal ing fatally.
During IL e present cen tury the
food supply OF the principa ma.
tlons has increased in a much
greater ratio than the popula ton
In all countries suicide more
common among men than
among women and am ng unmar-
rled than moLg married persons.
In ali countries the rate of sui.
cides is increasing. In 1880, in
Europe and America, there were
1856; in 1885 there were 1902.
Suicides are not more numerous
IN France than in other countries.
In 1887 there were EOS suicides in
Fra &c and 2oS in Germany.
More women than men go blind
IN Sweden, Norway and Ireland;
more men than women in the rest
OF Europe and the United States.
The United States leads the
world in divorce, in the twenty
years preceding 1886, there being
32S,7I6 to 258,3 1872 for all Europe.
According to Bradstreet, the in
come OF American life insurance
companies rose from Sc, 45o, 900 in
\ 1861. to SIo9, 5oo,o 900 in 1885.
The amount of iron in the human
blood IS about an ounce to the 100
pounds, or little over a quarter of
an ounce to the individual.
An enumeration of the population
OF Aggerhus, Norway, on 1868,
showed that $50 couples had been
over eighty years married.
French paupers are provided for
by the funds arising from a ten per
cent tax on theater tickets. This
tax averages $40, 500, 900 a year.
The average weight of the Eng
lish brain is As. 5 ounces; of the
Esquimau, 43. 9, but compared
with weight of body the difference
is small.
In England, France and Ger
many the ratio of multiple births
is IS twins per 1000, and 100
triples and quadruples per ,ooo,-
900 births,
In 1885 London had $4,000
houses, with 4, I2o, 900 population.
1t covered an area of IS, 900 acres.
There were 1880 miles of streets.
In the United States the average
life for farmers is 81 years; for law
yers, 81; for merchants, 4S; mech
anics, At; seamen, 40; laborers, A.
According to the latest returns
given by Mulhall, Russia has
prison population of 1885, SAG; Italy
60,S2S, the United States 56,25S.
In Great Britain the actual num-
Der OF persons engaged in agricul-
ture IS 2,56I 900; in manufacture,
$3.50, 900; in commerce, 1855, 600.
The meeting of 2ooo over 10
years Of age is annually held at