Various Occupations

New ScoUand Yard is the largest police office in the worid, aecommodating 3,000 officers. It is estimated that the silk industry oL China employs f rom 40,000,000 to 59,000,000 persons. The quantity of bananas shipped irom the West Indies to the United States amounts annually to between 13,000,000 and 14,000,000 bunches, valued at over $20,000,000. If the United armies of Europe should march at an eight-mile gait, five abreast, fifteen inches apart, it would require nine and one-half days for them to pass a given point. In proportion to itr; population the United Kingdom has a greater number of women workers than any other country and among them no fewer tlian 616,000 are set down as dressmakers. Pearl siifclls need to grow three or four years, but as tl1 possible pear! does not depend on tíie age or ie of the shell the small ones are as ithlessly opened as though no law oü the subject existed. Pearl flshers ave out for money and have no sentiment. The allowance oL lawyers to this country is raiher more liberal than the nllowance of preachers. There are 89,1 12 men and 208 women engaged in practicing law and supposing each to have an average of ten suits on hand ihe litigation going on at one timp ii: ihe United States courts would foot up S%,300 cases.