Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — Parisian Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Parisian Statistics.

Statistics show that more than 500 r 000 Parisians are employed in commerce, trade, and banking operations, while of the artisan class there are considerably more than 1,250,000. The liberal professions seem to occupy but a small proportion of the population. All combined do not amount to 200,000. The great majority are in public service, which employs more than medicine, law, and divinitygcombined. But after the public service it is art which gives employment, and livelihood to the greatest number of Parisians. Fortytwo thousand get their income from this branch of industry. The doctors come after, but a long way after; medicine, in its branches, supports 18,000 — the branches, of course, including chemists and all compounders and venders of medicine. Then comes the law, with 15,000 votaries, from Judges to the crier. Literature figures very low on the list, for, grouped with science and journalism, it gives employment to only 11,000 people; while all the clergy of all the persuasions amount to but half that number. Ou the whole, Paris would seem to be more industrious, more artistic, less literary, and less religious than the ordinary visitor would suppose; while the proportion in which the working class exceeds those who live on their own income is remarkable, as Paris is the recognized center of expenditure and extravagance for all France. —-—.—. .’