gdom be turned
into a republic. A constitution was accordingly drawn up, and under its
terms a president, with a council of six, is elected every six years, all
adults, male or female, casting a ballot. No salary is paid either to the
president or the members of his council.

WEIGHTS OF THE SEXES AT DIFFERENT AGES.

MEN ARE FATTEST AT FORTY.

Average Weights of Humanity Differ
More Markedly in Relation to Age
and Sex Than Is Supposed.

If all the men and women, boys and girls, and infants--black, white,
yellow, brown or red--in all parts of the world, could be weighed on the
same scales, the average weight would be nearly one hundred pounds
avoirdupois. Six-pound infants and three-hundred-pound giants contribute
to the average.

Upon the average, boys at birth weigh a little more and girls a little
less than seven pounds. For the first twelve years the two sexes continue
nearly equal in weight, but beyond that age the boys acquire a decided
preponderance. Young men of twenty average 135 pounds, while the young
women of twenty average 110 pounds each.

Men reach their heaviest weight at about forty years of age, when their
average weight will be about 140 pounds; but women slowly increase in
weight until fifty years of age, when their average weight will be 130
pounds. Taking the men and women together, their weight at full growth
will then average from 108 to 150 pounds; and women from 80 to 130 pounds.

SPENDS TEN MONTHS GAZING INTO MIRROR.

WOMAN'S AVERAGE IN A LIFETIME.

German Statisticians Assert That a Man
Requires Only Seven Months for This
Employment.

German statisticians, who have long been noted for their tendency to turn
their searchlights on subjects that might better be left alone, have made
another little incursion into the field of woman's vanity. In short, they
have been calculating what part of a woman's life is spent in looking at
herself in a mirror.

She begins as a rule at six years. From six to ten she has a daily average
of seven minutes. From ten to fifteen she devotes a quarter of an hour to
her glass.

At twenty she certainly spends thirty minutes daily admiring herself, and
when past twenty a whole hour.

The statisticians are tactful enough not to say when a woman begins to
take less interest in her personal appearance, but women more than sixty
years do not, they say, spend more than ten minutes daily at their
mirrors. All this time reckoned up--it is a si