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Show Juggled statistics. ' v"' The human race has added ten years' to the life of the average man in the' last 50 years, an actuary told the Ufa' underwriters in Chicago recently. Why shouldn't this sort of thing go on, he asks, until man lives to be one hun.-dred? hun.-dred? Why not, to be sure? Just aw Mark Twain figured about the lengths of the Mississippi. It was cutting out! i bends and shortening itself so mucU every year. If the same rate should keep on, in the course of a few thousand thou-sand years the Mississippi would be j Dnly 18 miles long. Kansas City Star. j |