SAVINGS BANK COMPOUND INTEREST TABLE

One dollar, from one year to fifteen years, with compound interest added semiannually, at different rates.

THE SUM OF MONEY THAT MUST BE INVESTED, ANNUALLY, AT COMPOUND INTEREST, TO AMOUNT TO $1,000 IN A DEFINITE

1,000 00 per cent compound

Explanation.-How much must be invested every year, at 4 interest, so that the proceeds will amount to $1,000 in twenty-five years? Look under the heading "4% per cent," at the right of twenty-five years, and you And $21 47, the answer, etc., etc.

Imports of bananas into the United States increased in value from $6,550,000 in 1901 to $12,433,000 in 1910.

LONGEVITY CALCULATIONS.

According to Buffon, the life of man "can" last six times as long as it takes him to become fully developed; according to Bacon and Hufand, eight times as long. Now, since man is not considered in the anatomical sense completely mature before the twenty-fifth year of age his life, according to the last named two authorities, "could" last two hundred years. But, as a matter of fact, there is no record whatever of such long lives. Among the extraordinary cases of longevity on record and well attested is that of the Englishman Thomas Parr, who lived happily in Shropshire to the age of 152. The celebrated Harvey, who dissected him after death, found his body in excellent condition, and stated that had it not been for his intemperance he might have lived much longer. A census taken under Emperor Vespasian showed in the relatively small territory of Italy alone eighty persons over one hundred years old, and among these two who had reached the age of 140. The census of the United States for 1890 shows 3,981 centenarians and that for 1900 8,504 (males, 1,271; females, 2,338). These figures have only a dubious value, not merely because the vanity of old people in general causes them to claim their age much higher than it really is, but for the fact that the majority of these centenarians are ignorant persons (2,558 negroes, 111 Indians and 3 Mongolians), whose statements as to their age cannot be relied

upon.

It has been calculated that of 1,000,000 men and women who have passed the age of 30 about one-half live to the age of 68, one-fourth to the age of 76, every tenth to the age of 88 and every hundredth to the age of 97 years. Of 1,000,000 only 100 attain the age of 100, 2 the age of 104, and to find a person only one year older 2,000,000 births have to occur; but only among 10,000,000 human beings one grows 106 years old.

The following tables show the expectation of life from various ages and the percentage living to the end of certain periods:

American Experience Expectation of Life.

According to the American Experience Table of Mortality.

Russia, Finland, Sweden and Norway together possess 583,000,000 acres of forests, 78 per cent of the total forest area of Europe.

Per Cent Living at End of Period.

Per cent that live to the end of a term of years, according to the American Experience Table of Mortality.

RELATION BETWEEN DEATH AND BIRTH.

An examination of the proportion between the death rate and birth rate in the various countries goes to show that there exists a relation between death and birth. Indeed, a comparison of the respective statistical tables reveals the fact that all fluctuations in the rates of births and deaths proceed in parallel lines, that is, that every increase in the death rate is infallibly accompanied by an increase of births, and, vice versa, every decrease in the death rate is followed by a decrease of births, so that, despite a few exceptional fluctuations, the excess of births remains approximately the same, at least with regard to European countries, where this parallel course of death and birth lines has been established in the various nations by statistical figures, They prove, for instance, that in the countries with a small death rate, e. g., where it does not exceed 18 in 1,000 inhabitants, the birth rate, too, is smaller than with other nations. England the proportion of death to birth is 16 to 28; in Scotland, 17 to 29; in Denmark and Norway, 15 to 29; in Sweden, 15 to 26; in Holland, 16 to 32; in Belgium, 17 to 28, and in Switzerland, 18 to 28. This shows a mean excess of births of 12 in 1,000.

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It is interesting to observe how this average is also maintained by those countries whose death rate is higher, and which consequently also exhibit higher birth rates in order to keep up the normal excess. Thus Germany shows 20 deaths to 35 births; Austria, 24 to 36; Hungary, 26 to 37; Russia (1901), 82 to 42; Rumania, 25 to 89; Italy, 22 to 88; Spain, 26 to 85, and Portugal, 20 to 82. The historical comparison, too, shows the same parallelism in the rise and fall of the death and birth rates. In the years 1841-'50, for instance, England records 82.6 births against 22.4 deaths in 1,000 inhabitants; proportionately the number falls to 28.1 and 15.9 in the years 1901-'05. Germany in 1841-'50 counted in the average 25.8 deaths in 1,000 inhabitants against 86.1 births; in 1901-'05 the figures are 19.9 against 84.7. And similar are the proportions in Italy, Austria and Spain. In Ireland there are only 23 births against a death rate of 18 in 1,000. France occupies an exceptional position among the nations, recording only 21 births against 20 deaths, an excess of births of only 1 in 1,000.

The forests of the world cover 3,800,410,830 acres, of which 750,000,000 are in Europe and 652,000,000 are in the United States and Alaska.

PROPORTIONATE HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND CHEST MEASUREMENTS. There are tables published as to the weight of man compared with height, but they are purely averages, and not definite at that, for some men at, say, five feet six inches, weigh more than others of the same height. On the weighing machines seen at public places a table is affixed giving the proportionate weight for various heights. The same applies to age. It may, however, be laid down that an adult male, in good health, sixty-six inches in stature, ought to weigh rather more than 140 pounds avoirdupois, and for every inch above or below this height five pounds should be added or subtracted. "Individuals may present a wide range of variation from this," says Dr. J. Adams Allen ("Medical Examinations for Life Insurance"), "but as a rule, 20 per cent, or one-fifth, is almost the maximum variation within the limits of health."

The highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi River is Mount Mitchell, N. C., which has an elevation of 6,711 feet.

Artists have at all times endeavored to discover in the human body the rules of the beautiful, the laws which the forms and proportions of the various parts of the body must obey in order to approach by their harmony the ideal beautiful. Polyclitus, of Sicyon (fifth century, B. C.), a celebrated Greek sculptor and architect, made figure embodying the accepted proportions, which he called "the canon." There are numerous canons of this kind, called either after the epoch in which they were decreed or after the artist who devised them, such as the Egyptian canon, the Greek canon, the canon of the Renaissance, the canons of Michael Angelo, Albert Dürer, Jacques Cousin, etc. In our own times some eminent anthropologists have also, from the mean of many measurements, established what is called the scientific canon of proportions. According to this canon, the normally built body requires the following proportions:

Length of the body seven and a half to eight times the length of the head, nine times the length of the hand and six to seven times the length of the foot. The breadth of the temples should be equal to the length of the face; the breadth of the shoulders double the length of the face. The arm must be three times as long as the head, and the legs four times as long. As to the proportions of the face, the forehead should be as long as the nose, as long as mouth and chin taken together and as long as the ear. The mouth should be by one-half larger than the eye. In woman the lines must be rounder than in man; also, the proportions of various parts of the body differ. Thus, the shoulders should be narrower, the waist smaller and the hips larger than with man. Another very important question in judging beauty is the proportion of a person's length and breadth to her weight. By multiplying the size of the chest by the length of the body and dividing the result by 240, the quotient thus obtained should, with the normally built person, be equal to her weight in kilograms.

MEAN TIME OF DIGESTION OF VARIOUS ARTICLES OF DIET.
One hour-Rice.

One and a half hours-Beaten eggs, barley water, roast game, baked apples and pears, fruit sauce, boiled salmon and trout, spinach, celery, asparagus, mashed peas and beans, oatmeal.

One and three-quarter hours-Cooked brains and sago.

Two hours-Boiled milk, raw eggs, boiled barley, roast ox liver, boiled green apples, boiled codfish,

Two and a quarter hours-Frosh uncooked milk, boiled turkey.

Two and a half hours-Roast turkey. roast goose, roast lamb, suckling pig, beans and lentils boiled in their husks.

Two and three-quarter hours-Pudding boiled tender, chicken fricasse, oysters. Three hours-Soft boiled eggs, stewed mutton, raw ham, beefsteak, broiled perch, sole and turbot, cake.

Three and a half hours-Roast pork, salted butter, hard boiled eggs, old cheese, fresh sausage, corned beef, boiled potatoes, fresh wheaten bread, boiled white cabbage, boiled onions.

Four hours-Boiled and roast poultry, roast veal, roast' mutton, dry bread with coffee.

Four and a half hours-Boiled tender mutton, fresh pickled meat and sauerkraut. Five hours-Very hard boiled eggs, stone fruit, cherries, plums, raisins, almonds, nuts, mushrooms.

Six hours Old pickled meat, fried lampreys and fat eel.

It is to be noted that an addition of m" oll, fat and acids renders digestion more difficult, while an addition of salt, per, mustard, old cheese, radish, sugar and wine favors it considerably.

NUTRITIVE VALUE OF FOODS.

The human body, especially as regards nutrition, has justly been compared to an engine. If a steam engine is to perform a certain amount of work it must be supplied with fuel, and the quantity of fuel must be in proportion to the work to be performed. In like manner man, to be able to act, requires fuel, which we call food, and, like the engine, the person who has to perform a greater amount of work will also require a greater supply of food. Besides, the human engine does not stop for a second in its work, for even in the profoundest sleep heart and lungs are uninterruptedly active. From this follows that as long as we live we are compelled to supply the body with ever new fuel.

Recent scientific investigations go to show that a healthy, vigorous person requires daily a quantity of food corresponding to a heating capacity of about

Railway mileage of the world in 1909: Europe, 204,904; Asia, 61,800; Africa, 20,809; North America, 277,015; South America, 42.329; Australasia, 18,849.