Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1881 — Expectancy of Life. [ARTICLE]

Expectancy of Life.

Insurance companies are aware of the credulous weakness of those whoso lives they assure, and have, therefore, compiled numerous tables of expectancy of life for their own guidance, which are carefully referred to before a policy is granted. These tables have been the result of careful calculation, and seldom prove misleading. Of course, sudden and premature deaths, as well as lives unusually extended, occasionally occur; but the average expectancy of life of an ordinary man or woman is as follows : A person 1 year old may expect to years longer ; of 10 years, 51; of 20 years, 41; of 30 years, 34 ; of 40 years, 28; of 50 years, 21 ; of 60 years, 14; of 70 years, 9; of 80 year. 4.— Scientific American. From the Atlanta (Ga.) Sunday Phonograph: The editor of the Pikes County News has been cured of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil.