Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-25

themselves of their heavy clothing, which greatly hampered them, managed by super human efforts to reach the rocks. A great seq, however, swept over the exhausted fishermen at the moment when safety seemed assured. and when Nicholas rose on the crest of the next pillow battling for his life his companion had disappeared. A huge in- and half naked fisherman on the jagged rocks, and there, slowly dying of exhaus- tion and cold, he prolonged the success full struggle for existence, while the ris- ing tide added to the horror of his situation.
 Were 1t not that Nicholas is powerful young man, 28 years of age, the terrible ordeal must have cost him his life. Yester- battle, for life, he was out of danger, and in few days will be able to leave his bed.
 The Occupation of Women in India.
 [St. Jamess Gazette.l
 The Times of India extracts some curious information concerning the occupations of native India women from the statistical ab
 stracts relating to British India for the past year. It will no doubt cause 8 certain amount of surprise to find no fewer than 17,764 women figuring as ''oficers of mu- nicipal local and village government" A6ukCu bJ OycO$ Oi IuOll 5iot0IS uS oAASoAo of national government" and S65 more s'oficers of independent States and govern ments." A career for the strong minded woman would seem to be at once opened up in India if these figures mean what they say; but, alasl it is not so much strong minds as strong hands and weak susceptibilities which are required by these officers of na- tional and municipal government. Then, again, the respectable total of 94 ,251 women appear in these tables as clergymen, minis | ters, priests, church and temple officers, and only subtle twist of mind or actual ex- perience can bring the knowledge that the women figuring in this honorable section are confined to the last clause of the defni- 1 ton. As physicians, surgeons, and drug | gists, however, without any possibility of | qualification of 8 menial kind, We find 75,- 239 women set down, and the figures derive collateral moral support from an adjoining table, in which 3,464 women appear as au- thors and literary persons, while 5S5 are
 4, ,345 as teachers, 127 as scientific ''persons;;' ! and, strangest of all to the uninitiated, 40,- l 2Sl as actresses. The wives of specified ocs 1 cupation number in one part of this table 1 All ,774 (exclusive of IS, ,S63, 726 agricultur- | iste), and "other wives" number only 3,221,- 366. Where the balance of O,e0O, GOO or
 4O,000, 900 appear is not so far discoverable.
 Mercantile men, as the greater includes the
 less, embrace also 124 ,4O9 merchantile
 women; but the section. devoted to lawyers
 includes ten women only, the sex having Q
 proverbial antipsthy to the ethics of Coke, Lyttleton, and Blackstone: but even
 those ten lady lawyers rather come as 8
 surprise. Among the more laborious occu-
 pations we find 27,741 women employed in
 the construction of houses and other build
 ings, 25S in the building of ships, 204. 33l in
 the connection of drinks and stimulants, 13,799 workers in precious metals and
 stones. 354,721 in stone and clay, and
 5,244, ,206 simply chased as "aborers."
 Altogether, about 36, 900, ,000 women appear tien of classified work-roughly, a little less | than one third oe the entire female popula-
 tion, which includes, of course, an enor-
 nous proportion of infants and young girls.