The Death Kato of Sailors. It may bo a surprise to many to lenni that statistics prove the sea to be safei to live on than the land. Tho late Mr. Thomas Gray, of tho board of trade, marine ma-rine department, London, says: 'I have alwavs contended and am more than ever confirmed in it that a man is safer at sea than anywhere elc in n fairlv good ship, properly manned and carefully navigated, as tho very great majority of British merchant ships "'The death rate of sailors is under j twelve per thousand; the loss of life by shipwreck is about a quarter of this; in f tct there are more lives lost among mi-! uers from accident than among sailors, and manv more among railway em-p em-p oves With regitrd to the general death rate, the fact that sailors as a n e. are healthy when they begin tnc-ir rade, and retire from it before old age nc mcitates them for other work must K considerable, and probably misleading, mis-leading, influence on the figures.-