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Show Juggled Statistics. The human race has added ten years to the life of the average mnn In the last 50 years, an actuary told the life underwriters In Chicago recently. Why shouldn't this sort of tiling go on, he nsks. until man lives to be one hundred? hun-dred? Why not, to be sure? Just as Mark Twain figured about the length of the Mississippi. It was cutting out bends and shortening Itself so much every year. If the same rate should keep on, in the course of a few thousand thou-sand years the Mississippi would be only IS miles long. Kansas City Star. |