Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-24
THE UNMARRIED MILLIONS.
According to the CensuS There Are One-Third More Bachelors Than
 SpinsterS dn the United States.

The fate of the unsophisticated man who declared in public address that there were 100000 superhuous women in Massachusetts" has never been definitely ascertained. It is known, however, that this was his concluding public declaration on that subject, says the New York Sun.
 Without the fear of his fate, another conquer came forward recently to declare that the proportion of uhtnar- ried girls and women was increasing. As matter of fact, it is steadily di- minishinG in the United States and. as q veteran advocate of the extension of the legal rights of women has pointed out, there are now in the United States 2,50o,0o0 more single men of marriage able age than there are single women. the official figures being as follows: Unmarried men, 10,44s, ,153; unmarried girls and women, 7,573,e19.
 The male population of the United States, through the excess of male im- migration, and the higher male birth rate, is more than million in excess of the female. The span of life is, on the average, longer for woman than for a man and the marriageable age for women is several years younger i than the average for men.
 As a consequence of this the number of widows is very largely in excess of the number of widowers, the figures being 2,700,000 and l, ,20o, GOO respective ly. There are more divorced women who have not remarked than there are divorced men, and for all these reasons the number of single men of marriageable age is larger than the number of single women.
 Tn New York it is 240, 0,ooo, in Pennsyl- vania 1s0,ooo, in Ohio 10000, in Illi- nois 100000, in California 15o, ,o00, in l Texas 15o,000 and in Kansas 75, ,0OO. | In Massachusetts the number of un- married men exceeds the number of unmarried women by only few thou sand. In Utah there are 35, 900 unrnar. i ried men and 23o0O unmarried women i or marriageable age. In Washingt the capital, the number of single men is 42,o0o and of single women the same.
 King Edward sThe Silver King"
 The fall in the price of silver still leaves the king the possessor of an l enormous fortune in the plate he has inherited from his mother, both at Buckingham palace and at Windsor castle. The late queen had the great preponderance of her plate at Wind l sor, whereas during the present reign Buckingham palace will probably be the more plentifully supplied. No I valuation has had to be made for probate duty, for the king does not pay the kings taxes, any more than the speaker of the third estate speaks Not long ago, however, an inventory was made at Windsor castle, with the result that the plate, most of it silver some. of it gold, and portion of it. ] such as metal peacock and tA.her or. naments, set with gems was appraised at sum far in excess of million pounds. Edward VII, who has made considerable additions to the collec, tion by the transfer of his own plate from Marlborough house, may well be alluded to among connoisseurs as "the Silver .''-London Chronicle
 EntertaininE.
 Mir Manning-I should think you would hesitate about hiring that girl Miriam; she has been discharged from no less than 20 families during tn. year
 Mrs. Manning-Just think how en- tertaining she will be. Why, I'd have her if were obliged to pay her doublt ages.-Boston Transcript