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Docket, a periodical that circulates among members of the bar, points out that Washington, D. C., has (in proportion to its population) more lawyers than any state in the Union, there being one to every 181 persons there. Excepting D. C., lawyers are most plentifully assembled on and near the Pacific Coast. Nevada (with reason) has a lawyer for every 337 people. California, for every 507; Oregon, for every 550; Washington, for every 606. The lower South has fewest lawyers. And Pennsylvania has none too many, with a ratio of one to 1,285. All the lawyers in the country added together total 122,519. And of these New York has 18,473--more than twice the number in any other state.