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Show Karon Kold, who lias been ransackin? the figures of the univeise, sayi that the English is the most widely spread lang- j uajje, beitiR speken by about So.ooo.oou people; German, bv 50,000,000 or 6o,-000,000; 6o,-000,000; French and Spanish, 40,000,000 each; Russian, 55,ouo,ooo. Every advance ad-vance made by a people in morality and healthy employment, and useful knowledge, know-ledge, adds to its tenure of lite. I lie average oflife anion.; the well-to-do is fifty years; among the poor, thirty-two veats. Clergymen average the longest lives stxtv-six years. Idlers are slioiu-r lived than the industrious, and statistics prove that in counltits where consanguineous consan-guineous marriages are pennitted, thete are to be found a greater number of deal mutes and idiots th 111 elsewhere. |