Not Many Bluestockings

The latest ceusnsof Egypt shows tfaat the country is about the only one in the world wbere the men are in a majority over the wornen. The male sex in the khedive's dominions exceeds the female by 160,000, and it is curious to note that this numerical predominance of the male is very evenly spread over both upper and lower Egypt. It is only in the sparsely peopled and uewly recovered province of Dongola that the women are more numerous than the men. Another interestiug fact is that the proportion of Egyptiau women knowing how to read and write is just a Littla