Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — French Statistics. [ARTICLE]

French Statistics.

According to the “Annuaire Statistique,” recently published by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, the total population of France, a little under 37,000,000 in round numbers, is divided into 12,000,000 inhabitants of towns and 25,000,000 inhabitants of the country. On eliminating from the general total 860,690 individuals (who are soldiers, sailors, students in schools, infirm and diseased, prisoners, or monks not giving instruction), the total of a little over 36,000,000 persons participating fully in social life comprises, with regard to means of existence and professions, 210,200 persons without known professions; 71,300 vagabonds and mendicants; 2.151,900 •tockbolders (including 195,000 pen-

: sioners of the Government); 1,581,400 persons exercising liberal professions or living by them; 3,827,200 persons engagea in trade, transport ana navigation, or living on their products; 9,274,500 persons engaged in various industries or living by them (6,000,000 in Bmall industries, 8,000,000 in mining and manufactures); 18,968,600 persons practicing agriculture or living by it (of whom 10,500,000 are proprietors of their land, nearly 6,000,000 are tenantfarmers, 2,500,0(i0 are agricultural specialists, comprising vine-growers). On entering into detail- of each of the great branches of the National production, it is found that 4,000,000 of proprietors of agricultural tenants (of whom 400,000 are women) employ—as clerks, 82,000 men and 54,000 women; as work-people, 590,000 men and 378,000 women; as day laborers, 922,000 men and 704,000 women; as domestics, 661,. 000 men and 663,000 women; and. on the other hand, that the families maintained by the landed property or agricultural work consist of 8,800.000 persons of masculine sex, and 7.200,000 of feminine; 1,125,000 industrial patrons (of whom 226,000 are women) have for clerks 143,000 men and 50,000 women; 1,555,000 workmen and 1,000,000 workwomen ; 305,000 male day laborers, and 244,000 female: 78,000 male domestics, and 143,000 female. The families living by industrial operations embrace nearly 1,600,000 persons of masculine sex and 3,000,000 of feminine; 784,000 employers in trade and carriage (of whom 221,000 are women) have 247,000 male employes and 71,000 female; 198,000 workmen and 56,000 workwomen; 140,0< 0 male day laborers and 80,000 female; 65.000 male domestics and 188,000 cooks or nursery maids. They support families amounting to 661,000 boys and 1,346,000 girls.