At a recent conference held at the Health Exhibition, it appeared from some statistics collected by Dr. Ord, that gardeners had a better chance of life than any other class, out of some eighty specified classes of workers, with the exception of clergymen. If 1,000 be taken as the average standard number of deaths within a given period, among all classes taken together, then the number of gardeners who die during the period is barely more than half the average, i. e., 559; that of clergymen, who have the best chance of all, 556; agricultural laborers, 653; farmers, 675; medical men, 1,125. The highest death rate is among persons engaged in hotels, 2205; innkeepers, 1521; brewers, 1361 - significant figures these ! The proportion of medical men who die in a given time, though above the general average, is less than might have been expected from the harassing life they mostly lead, and the special risks they run. - Gardeners' Chronicle.