Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-15
MORE BACHELORS THAN MAIDs
Unmarried Men Are More Numerous
 Than Are Single Women.

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 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 outnumbering the maid- ems. At the present moment there are in the United States 100000 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 1t 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 a 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 spinsters 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, where the figures are 219,255 spinsters, against 2260S5 bachelors. Massachu- setts is the banner state for spinsters, the bachelors outnumbering them by only two-tenths of 1 per cent. Next comes Rhode Island, where the excess of bachelors is 2 per cent. The ex- cess Of bachelors in the District of Co., 3 per cent, in New Hampshire g 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 g per cent, in New York it is 26 per cent and in Virginia it is = per cent. All of these are low percent ages so far as the superiority of baehe- lors in point of numbers is concerned. LAKE IN AFRICAN MOUNTAIN. Explorer eircumnavigates the Entire
 Sheet of Water.
 At meeting of the Royal Geograph- ical society in London an interesting report by Poulett Weather1ey on Lake Bangweulu, in central Africa, was read. The explorer circumnavigated the entire sheet of water His party reached the lake in August, 1896, and established camp at the southeast ern corner, 3,765 feet above sea level. The shores of the lake are absolutely free from shells and the water has no depth. He sounded in many places, but never found more than fifteen feet. It's surface was usually still, 8 very strong wind raising the smallest sea. It appears to be nothing but a flooded district Mir Weatherley thinks it was formed by the water from the great watershed of the Tanganyika plateau. The overflow is checked to the west and southwest by rim of rock, but the east and southeast has no such barrier, and in that direction there is vast swamp from twenty to forty miles in breadth. The Liposochi and Luena to the north and the Chambeze to the east are the chief contributors to the water supply With twenty-five men he explored the island of M ba- wala, about twenty miles long and LOGO yards from the shore, and pro- ceeded toward the outlet of the Lucas pula, ultimately landing at K1rui isl and. After a stay of some time on the island, which they found low, beauti- fully wooded, well peopled and culti- Fated, they passed on to Kisi island. This they found not a bit like the island depicted on the maps. 1t pre- sented most peaceful, prosperous sight, and in common with the other two islands, Kirui and M'bawala, il reared good number of sheep-the broad-tailed kind-and goats. The people appeared to live life Of com 1lete peace and contentment Proceed ing in northerly direction, the party reached the extreme north-northwest corner of the lake. Continuing their journey along. the coast, they discov- cred a narrow peninsula stretching north and south, having on the west sheet of water abuut three miles in width, which extends the whole length of Bangweulu north and south, but is always separated from the lake by the isthmus. There was cotton every where, but not in large quantity, and fhe ha1,lx- -clct h treo 2 hn111, q cd ATs,y1