OCR Text |
Show Somo Interesting Statistic. I It Is said tlint each year 15 people out 1 evrry 1 .onn mnrry. Of wh 1 .MO men who marry blU aro bachelors and 139' widowers, while of each 1,000 women1 only 08 have been married before and 002 are spinsters. Twelve tnarriageB out of every 100 are second marriages. The 1 averago age at which men marry is about 27, whilo tho average at which : women marry is about Zo years. Out of : every 1,000 persons 602 aro unmarried, 815 aro married and 53 widowed. Over j one-half of nil tho women between IB ; and -45 are unmarried. In all countries j about C per cent, of marriages prove! barren. Among tlio English nobility 19 : per cent, aro childless. Married women livo two years longer than singlo ones, although 1 In 70 dies in childbirth. If the mother dies first tho father survives 1 9i years, but if tho father dies first the i survival of tho mother is 1 1 i years as an ' averago. Two thousand four hundred and forty-one births occur in England daily, about 83 for each 1,000 inhab-! itants. February is the month in which tho greatest number of births occur, I June tho month in which occur th? few-1 est. Tho averago number of births for each marriage is 4.5)3. In every 1.000 births 10 are twins. Pall Mall Oazctte. |