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Show CONCERNING LONGEVITY. Our modern life insurance tables contaiu very accurate approximations approxima-tions to the average ago attained by civilized maukind; aud being founded upon the best attainable etaliatical information, in-formation, can be relied upon. It would appear that the chances of tbe ' child whoreacheB the age of 10 years , in fair health, for arriving at tho "three score and ten," designated by the Pdalmist as the reasonable limit of life, are four out of ten that iatosay, there are 40,000 men and women alive at 70 yearB of age, out ol every 100,000 who reach the ano of 10 years. Only one in that 100,000 may expect, however, to round out a full ceutury, although ten may live to see 95, and 100 up to about 93. One man in every 100 reaches! tbe age of 90. No leas thao 50,000 attain 65, while more than 25,000 will puss their 75tb year. At S3 there are but 10,000 left, nine out of every ten having dropped out of the ranks. Fully 75,000 aoula alive at 10 ye ira of ago will see -k-i. The fewest deaths occur betweeu the ages of 2o and 28 iuclusive, at which period men aud women should be in the very prime of their lives. Of the 100,000, 750 will die tho first year; then tho mumber of deaths gradually declines to 71S between the ages of 25 and 23, after which they again increase mml lit 51 they reach 1,000 per annum; at 60 they number over 1,500, at 66 more than 2,000. and between the ages uf 73 and 74 they reach their maximum at 2,500 each year. At 75, there b-jing but 26,000 of tho original 100,000 remaining altogether, alto-gether, they commence to decline again. At SO the number of deaths annually is about 2,000; at 87 it ih less than 1.000. For the benefit of those curious in such matters, the following table may be of interest, the estimates being based upon 100,000 children, of either sex, who have reached the age of 10 years: 90,000 will live to attain tbe ageof. 23 80,000 a7 to.uoo " 50 60,000 " " ' 58 50,000 ' " " " 65 10,000 " ' 70 ;io,ooo """ 7( 20,000 " " " 77 10,000 82 6Wu " " $5 2,600 " " " 68 1,000 " " 90 500 " " ri 91 2f0 11 " ' 92 100 " - . 93 2o '-' " " m 10 " .... yo 1 " " " 100 ! The deaths average less than one per cant, per annum of tbe whole number up to the age of 51, although amounting to upwards of one per cent, of the number surviving after the age of 41. Of course thenceforward thencefor-ward the annual percentage of deaths inoreases very rapidly until at 93 it amounts to nearly the entire number of Burvivora. To sum up, modern statistics would divide the averaee human life into three portions of 25 years each, which may be entitled youth, maturity and old age. |