Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-07
MORE BACHELORS THAN MAIDS
Men Are More Numerous
 Than Are Single Women.

Unmarried Men Are More Numerous
 Than Are Single Women.
 From the Cincinnati Enquirer: It appears that people generally are greatly mistaken in their notion that there is an enormous surplus of unmar- ried women in this country. The truth is that no such excess of spinsters ex- ists; in fact, it is quite the other way, the bachelors outnambering the maid ems. At the present moment there are in the United States 2,200,000 more un- attached males than females similarly situated, the exact figures being 5.427,- 767 bachelors against 3,224, ,494 spin sters of ages from 20 years up. Thus it is obvious that if girls do not find husbands it is not for lack of plenti- ful supply of the article. What is re- quired, seemingly, is general migra- tion of spinsters from the north and east to the great and growing west, in parts of which there are ten available mates for every maid. From the last remark, however, it must not be infer red that there is actually an excess of unmarried women in the northern and eastern states. Even in those parts of the country there are more bachelors than sDinsters 20 years old and upward, notwithstanding the theory to the con- trary so widely accepted. No state in the union has as many maidens as bachelors-not even Massachusetts, ho against 226,0S5 bachelors. Massachu- setts is the banner state for spinsters, the bachelors outnumbering them by only two-tenths of i per cent. Next comes Rhode Island, where the excess of bachelors is per cent. The ex- cess of bachelors in the District of Co., lumbia is per cent, in North Carolina per cent, in New Hampshire 9 per cent, in Connecticut 20 per cent, in Maine 37 per cent and in Vermont 54 per cent. In Maryland the bachelor surplus is 19 per cent, in New Jersey 1t is p per cent, in New York it is 26 per cent and in Virginia 1t is 14 per cent. All of these are low percent. ages so far as the superiority of bache- lors in point of numbers is concerned
 Co-operarive Creameries in Ireland,
 In spite of the decided feeling against cooperative creameries in some quarters, they are on the increase in Ireland. During the year 1898 returns were received by the registrar general from 3S7 factories, or 63 more than in 1897, and the hands employed had in- creased by 631. Of the factories, 109 were owned by individual proprietors, 113 were the property of joint stock companies. and 165 belonged to the CO., operative farmers. Nearly three fourths of the total number of facto- ries in the country are in the province of Munster. The quantity of creamery butter produced in Ireland in 1898 was 1S,040 tons, as against 14,700 tons in the previous year.
 Remarkable Escape from Death.
 D. W. Krider of Wharton, Ohio, a member of the Third regular artillery, who was shot twenty-six times in Ine Filipino outbreak in February, and who received the most terrible wounds in the Manila campaign, still survives. He was shot at 1:30 o'clock in the aft ernoon, and because he was thought to have been killed, was not treated by the surgeon until o'clock that night, His escape from death on the field h 5ne of the most remarkable on record.