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Show Grim Decimals. Ill a legislative discussion of a bill to regulate and fix the liability of employers hi case of accident to employes, a member, mem-ber, in favoring the bill, made a speech in which he said: "Consulting the statistics on this subject, sub-ject, Mr. Speaker, I find that each laborer la-borer killed in an accident leaves tho following fol-lowing average number of relatives: "Widow, 0.5. "Children, 1.9. "Dependent parents, 0.2." "From which it appears," said a gentleman gen-tleman on the other side of the house, breaking in, "that if it were not for the children, the fatally injured workman, taking his wife and parents together, wouldn't leave one entire relative!" The interruption was ruled out of order, and the discussion proceeded. Youth's Companion. |