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Show tion, 811 clergymen died, instead of 828, the number expected from mortality tables. Physicians died of such diseases 115 per cent, above the average rate. Between Be-tween the ages of 6 and 45 the mortality of Roman Catholic clorgy men compared with Protestant ministers of the same age was as 187 to 109, while between the ages of 40 and 05 the dilference was as 154 to 100, and between the ages of 05 and 85 as 118 to 100. How to explain this striking difference is no easy task. It is suggested suggest-ed that it may be connected with the life of celibacy followed by the priests, also with the rigid penances of Catholio ecclesiastics, eccle-siastics, which, especially in the case of young men, are apt to derange the diges-tivo diges-tivo oreans. Medical Journal. Women in' riding toggery are now so familiar in the up town streets that. they no longer attract attention. Some of them do not even bother to wear wraps, but walk nonchalantly along clad only in their tight fitting cloth habits, varnished boots and high hats. There was a time when a woman in this sort of attire would have attracted a great deal of notice, no-tice, but even the errand boys do not turn to staro at the square shouldered and athletic looking girls who swing about town in their riding habits. They drop in on one another, stop to luncheon or take a cup of tea after a ride exactly as they would in the country. The populace pop-ulace is slowly but surely becoming educated edu-cated up to the manners and habits of the riding set of Now York girls. New York Sun. Death Rate of Ministers. Comparing the death rate of ministers, In respect of the causes of death, with the mortality of other men, tho following results are obtained: Of 86,831 clergymen, clergy-men, 180 died of infectious diseases. The usual experience of an insurance com-pary com-pary would have made the number 239; that is, the mortality of the clergymen was only 79 per cent, of the ordinary death rate. The death rate of physicians from these diseases was 127 above tho usual rate, pointing to the greater danger of contagion in the case of the physician than in that of the pastor. Of lung affections, excluding consumo- |