MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 356, 5 March 1902, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

Paris, Jan. 11

M. Mougeot, the Secretary of the Bureau of Telegraphs, has returned from Algeria and Tunis and reports that the objects of his trip have been accomplished. Within three months all the military posts and all the oases not yet connected by telegraph will have wireless stations. Tinibuctoo will be connected with Algiers within a month.

M. Mougeot is sending experts to tho Soudan, Congo and Dahomey with a shipload of apparatus. Others will soon be sent to Madagascar, Indo China and Tonkin.

The Government has decided that the African and Asiatic colonies, where the wires are constantly cut by the natives or thrown down by storms, shall be liberally equipped wilh the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy.

Berlin, Jan. 11. Dr Ziiz, the leading Gorman statistician, is satisfied, after many years of collecting materials, that married persons live longer than single persons. The death-rate among married porsons between twonty and thirty years of age is 0.7 per thousand, unmarried 8.4 ; between thirty and forty, married 9.1, unmarried 15.8; between forty and fifty, married 14.2, unmarried 26.5 ; from fifty to sixty, married 24, unmarried 42 ; between sixty and seventy the proportions are married 45, unmarried 71.

These figures prove that the deaths of married persons between thirty and seventy are three-fifths less than of unmarried. The average life of the unmarried persons who passed thirty-one is 58.6, or the married 64.4.