People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1893 — MAN PREDOMINATES. [ARTICLE]

MAN PREDOMINATES.

In Uncle Sam’s Domain There Are More Males Than Females. The population of this country is pretty well divided between the two sexes, although according to a bulletin just issued from the census office there are about 1,500,000 more males than females in the 62,500,000 of population. In the New England and middle states there are 45,000 more females than males. In the south middle section, including the district, the females outnumber the males by some 20,000. While in the northern central section or the country as far west as Nebraska, the males are in the majority by over 800,000. In the south central portion this excess reaches only about 200,000. In the western section of the country the predominance of the males is shown by a majority of over 500,000, says an exchange. In the District of Columbia the males number only 109,584, while the females number 120,808; 51.21 per cent, of the total population returned in 1890 are males and 48.79 per cent, are females. In 1880 the males represented 50.88 per cent., and the females 49.12 per cent. The percentages of males and females in 1870 were about the same as those just stated for 1880, or 50.56 per cent, for males and 49.44 per cent for females, while in 1860 they were very similar to those given for 1890, or 51.16 per cent, for males and 48.84 per cent for females. The excess of males over females in 1890 is 1,513,510 as against an excess in 1880 of 881,857. In 1870 the males only exceeded the females by 428,759, whereas in 1860 there were 727,087 more males than females. In 1850 the males exceeded the females by 483,444. The very large excess of males in 1890 is readily accounted for by the greatly increased number of immigrants who have come to this country since 1880, over three-fifths of the entire number of immigrants being males. The Most Gigantic Beast. Few ever stop “in their mad rush for gain,” as Bill Nye would say, to consider the immense size of the great Greenland whale (Balena Mysticetus). Nillson says that “average-sized specimens of it will weigh over a hundred tons!” Think of it, 220,000 pounds of flesh, bones and muscle! At that rate the gigantic creature would outweigh upward of 100 of the largest elephants that ever roamed the African or Asian forests. If killed and sliced into chunks of 500 or 1,000 pounds each his carcass would load a freight train of eleven cars to its fullest capacity. The whalebone in such a creature would weigh more than three of our largest Norman horses and the oil would fill 150 kerosene barrels.