Profitable Professions

In discussions and articles on "The Choice of a Profession" two of the most lucrative professions of all have generally been forg-otten. These are the professions of a jockey and man." At a festive meeting, viz., the aAnual dinner of the Jimcrack club, a former steward of the Jockey club said: "Cases now exist where a jockey receives a salary equal to that of a secretary of state, and jockeys even of the second rank receive, I think, payments which place them in a position, from a financial point of view, considerably ahead, I may say, of the bulk of their emplovers." Besides these salaries (or retainers, as they are called) the jockeys receive the authorized and regular riding fees, and it is no exag-geration. affirms the Pall Mali Gazette, to say that at the present moment at least half a dozen of them are earninp-, in connection with their riding, in the shape of retainers, riding fees and presents, L5,000 a year apiece, and in one or tvvo cases even more. With reference to the earnings of "strong men," Sandow is reported to have said, in connection with the eontest [in which he took part recentèy, that by his defeat he lost more than L4,000, the savings of only two years. If these statements are f acts, and there is no reason to doubt that thcy are, we need not wonder at the large number of would-be "strong men" and jockeys