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Show ADOUT OLD AGE fENSIOU'J. Then Are 3,086 Perscn In This Csun try Over 1C0 Years Old. Romany has expended $13.5000,0fif for ngo pensions, to say nothing ot 555,700.000 for sickness and $232,750. 000 for accidents. It Is strango that , this matter has not attracted tuoro at j tentlon In an advanced country like j tho United Stntes, which pays out moro than $142,000,000 a year to army and navy pensioners and hnrf" spent $3,264,130,257 In that way slnco "SGI According to tho Circle, tho census figures show that in 1300 thero were 3,080,408 persons of 05 or moro years In the United States. This was four per cent, of tho whole population. Ol these. G00.92G wero of 70 to 74 years; 300,000, 75 to 70 yours; 1S2.30I, SO tc 84 years; GG.3S9, 85 to 89 years; IS.-CSC, IS.-CSC, 00 to 04 years; 4.S38, 95 to 99 years, and 3.0S0, a hundred years and over. Among tho 3.0S0.49S persons ol Gi" years and more, thero wero 1.01 1,-0.")1 1,-0.")1 married men and 521,220 married women, 410.50.". wUHwors, 905.13C widows, 89,152 br.cheloiM and 90.858 spinsters. |