DlvldlnK Pro4t. "With m. Workmen. At the French Association for the Advancement of Science an interesting account has been given of the successful ap plic!1tion of the system of admitting workmen to a share of profits in the large cotton printing establishments of M. Besselievre, near Rouen. The Pall Mall Gautte, referring to the subject, states that M. Besselievre does not, indeed, give his hands 8 share in the management and risks of his business. He keeps his books to himself, and pays them

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... he wages ruling in the district, like ordinary laborers. But in addition to their wages he has since 1877 distributed among all the workmen who have been in his service for five years an annnal bonus proportionate to his own profits, which has amounted on the average to 12 and in one instance reached 17 per cent of the wages earned by them during the year.