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_ British Columbia has 130 insane within her borders, all in the Provincial asylum except 13. Manitoba. has 49 in the asylum and 147 not in. New Brunswick has 465 . in asylum and 421 not in any public institu- ‘ tion. Ontario has 3,450 in her five public institutions and 2,405 outside of them. Nova Soctia has 596 in asylums and 867 outside. There are about 100 housed in the County Poor’s Farm already referred to. Prince Edward Island has 128 in asylum and 205 outside. Quebec has 2,254 in her asylums, and 2,296 outside. The North \Vest Territories have 32 insane in all, but no public asylum. The returns of 1881 gave a total of 9,889 insane in Canada, of whom 4,655 were returned as inmates of asylums. Thus in 1881 there was 47.1 per cent. of the total number within asylums and over 52 per cent. in 1891. This indicates pro- gress in the duty of caring for the insane on the several provinces. Taken by provinces, the changes indicating progress or otherwise are :~â€"Br1tish Columbia, from 74 per cent. in asylums in 1881 to 90 in 1891 ; Nova Scotia, from 30 1-2 per cent. in asylums in 1881 to 37 in 1891 ; Manitoba, none in asy- lums in 1881 to 25 in 1891 ; Ontario, from 63 per cent.in asylums in 1881 to 59 in 1891; Prince Edward Island, from 30 per cent. in asylums in 1881 to 38 in 1891 ; Quebec,from 35 per cent. in asylums in 1881 to 50 in 1891. 1.1: is diificult to specify the causes of in- sanity in Canada. in the same comprehensive way. But. analysis of returns by our best alienists indicates that in Canada. heredity is responsible for at least 35 per cent. of the insanity and drink about 4 per cent ; sickness produced about 11 per cent. of the insanity in Canada. Drink has compara- 'vely little effect as a. factor in the develop- ment; of insanity in Canada, CAI'SES OF INSAXITY. As to causes of insanity, the average re- turns from England, France, Denmark, and the United States combined give this result: â€"Heredity, '24 per cent.; drink, ‘24 per cent.; business, 12 per cent; loss of friends, 11 per cent; sickness, 10 per cent. ; various, 19,1»:r 6.9915- All the provinces, with the exception of Ontario, have made great advances in re- spect to providing for the care of the in- sane. The annual expenditure on account of the insane amounts to about $121 per head per annum, according to the public accounts. In the Province of Ontario the yearly cost per patient is about $142. On- tario has adopted the cottage system in Mimico. Nova. Scotia has the country farm system in part. Quebec has the farm- ing out system. W'ith the exception of Nova. Scotia. and Quebec, the principle adopted in the Dominion is State care; and even in the case of these two excep- tions the institutions are subject to the supervision of Government Inspectors. In the United States, the States of New York, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missis- sippi. and both the Dakotas, the principle, of State care has been established, as against that of country care. New York, after long years of trial of it, abolished the country care system, and enacted in 1890 “ The State Care Act.” The corresponding table for Canada. is as follows zâ€"Heredity, 34.5 per cent; drink, 3.8 per cent; business, 5.0 per cent. ; loss of friends, 2.2 per cent“; sickness, 11.0 per cent; various, 43.5 per cent. to tell how many persons given as insane by the enumerators were aments and how many were dements. Investigation leads to the conclusion that some of those given in the census returns as lunaticsâ€"ie, pflsonsin whose case the insanity was ac. [wiredâ€"ought rather to be called as idiots. This seems to be more particularly the case in the Province of Quebee, where the idiots inthe institution at St.Ferdinand d’I-Ialifax, numbering 124 have been classed as insane in three census takings. If there w ere Riven their proper status as aments, and not ranked as dements, the lunatics of Quchec w(Wild be reduced from 4,550, to 4,425. W e ha.» e not the means of discovering the reiabi e frequency of congenital and the ac- quired insanity in Canada, nor are we able As high a price as 8100 was paid in Lon. don not long ago for a Canadian twelve- Penny stamp. “Anumbor of Cherokee Indian girls sup- Ptled‘pha singing at a. church service in New tors on a recent Sundav evening. has 25 ‘pet cent.'of its insané hdfiééd and protected in the ProyincialeAsyIum. The Province of British Columbia stands at the head of all the provinces, having in asylums 90 per cent. of the total number of insane reported in the province. Ontario comes next with 59 per cent. in asylums. New Brunswick comes third with 5'2 per cent. of its insane sheltered and cared for in the Provincial Asylum. Quebec is fourth with just 50 per cent. in asylums. Prince Edward Island has 38 per cent. in asylums. Nova. Scotia has 37 per cent. in asylums, if we include only those who are in the Provincial Asylum and those who are in four of the county asylums which Seem to be specially appropriate for insane, or 44 per cent. if we include those in the other eight county poor farms. Manitoba llow the Demented Are Cal-ed Forâ€"Large increase in the Number 0! Insaneâ€" lIeredtty the Leading Cause of Mental Weaknessâ€"Only a Small Percentage Ga Insane Through Drink. Dominion Census Commissioner Johnson has issued a bulletin of census gleanings dealing with the question of insanity. As this bulletin, and some others of a. like na- ture which may be issued subsequently, will not be printed with the census, those who desire to preserve the information con- tained should do so by laying aside the newspapers containing them. The bulletin on insanity is as follows :â€"()f the 13,355 insane persons reportei by the census enumerators as the number in the Dominion oi Canada in April, 1891, there were 7,029 who were reported as inmates of asylums. Thus over 52 per cent, or somewhat more than one-half, are sheltered, cared for, and supplied with medical attendance within the thirteen or more asylums provided for theirreception, I say “or more” asylums. There are really thirteen worthy of the nameâ€"the Province of Nova Scotia having one of them, but having in addition a system of country retreats, partially intended for the poor and partially for the insane and idiotic. Commissioner Johnson’s Bulle- tin on the Subject. INSANITY IN CANADA. Polite trampâ€"“ Erâ€" I thought so. Have you any st one crusher on the premises ‘2” Bridegroomâ€"“Suppose we postpone set- tlement for a year. Then I shall know Whether I ought to pay you a. thousand (101};er or nothing, f’ Clergymanâ€"“Oh, no; give me five dollars now. I’m a. married man myself.” CIergymanâ€"“VI leave'ihat (Entirely to you sir.” Lady of {be houseâ€"“That is Plymouth Rock.” Queen Elizabeth and Mary Stuart always handled their meat with their fingers. Bridegroomâ€"“Reafly, I have no idea. how much I ought to give you.”A Polite trampâ€"“Madam, may I inquire wizagvariety of fowl thisris ‘3” “ Here is another proof than it pays a man to do the square thing. Three differ- ent, men have asked me who made these trowsers, and I’ve sent each one of them to my tailor to give him an order.” But Mr. Bowser didn’t. do any shooting. After about a. quarter of an hour he came downstairs and sat down to read his paper, and next morning when he got up he got into his new trousers and wore them off down town without a. complaint. It was simply his wayâ€"most every man’s way. He just wanted to vindicate himself, as it were, and having done that to his own set- isfaction everything was all rig‘n t. It was on1y_two days later that he said : " On the shel" in your clothes closet, but please don’ t do anything rash!” “ It will be nothing rash. It will simply be' an act of justice. I will take these monstrosities upstairs and shoot twenty- four bullets into them. Then I will hunt for that tAilor and fire forty-eight balls into his deceiving heart ! If I am not; home by midnight, you needn’t sit, up any longer.” “Don’t look to you? Are you blind? Have you had forty years’ experience in trousers? It’s n. mile and a. half around that knee if it’s an inch ! I told him to Spring the bottoms. Did he do it? 1 might as well stick my legs into a. pair of coffee sacks. Look at the length I By the pipe of the piper, but if I had that tailor here I’d rend him to atoms! He’s made the legs for a. man 19 feet high !” “ The bottoms scarcely touch the floor,” ventured Mrs. Bowser, “ and when you have your shoes on theyâ€"â€"â€"” “Shoes on !" What has that cold-blooded villain of a. tailor got to do with my shoes on or off! Scarcely touch, oh? Why, they drag on the floor four feet behind me! Wits. Bowser, where’ 3 my revolver?” “ Do you take me forathree-story idiots!” howled Mr. Bowser, suddenly breaking loose like a. weak spot in a. reservoir. “ Perfect fit! Look of, ’em ! I told that Borneo pirate not to go above 17% on the knee, and What has he done? There's room there to stablea. mule 1” “Yes,” continued Mrs. Bowser, “you’ve got an elegant piece of goods and a. perfect fitflaBd I cong_mtâ€"-â€"_” ' Cafidle power increased to twenty, while a. deep red flush suddenly showed on Mr. Bowser’s neck. ‘ “Thai tailor is a real artist, and if I were yo_u_ I’d give him all my orders.” “The pattern is a. beautiful one for spring and summer, and the goods are sure- ly impgrted.” “ They don’t look to me to be over 171;. nggmfi have; room to bend your knee.” - No afswer, but a. nervous working of Mr. Bowser’s ears. “Why, they fit you beautifully,” she said as he came to a. halt before her. No answer, but the candle power increas- ed to eightegn. _ He disappeared upstairs, and during the next five minutes Mrs. Bowser got the baby out of the room, set the chairs back against the wall, and made other preparations for the coming hurricane. She was trying to still her bounding heart when‘Mr. Bowser softly entered the room. He had his coat and vest off and was in his stocking feet. He was as pale as a. dead man, and his eyes had a. sixteen-candle-power blaze in them. Only once before had she seen him look that way, and that was after trying for half an hour to button a. N o. 15 collar around a N o. 17 neck. “ I’ll try them on,” replied Mr. Bowser as he held them in different positions, “but woe unto that sun of the goose if he has tri_ed any gum game on me!” “ He may have sent the wrong bundle,vou know,” pieaded Mrs. Bowser. “My dress- maker did that last week, yo u remember. You’d better run upstairs and try them on anyway. Why, they are yours, of course. Here’s your name written on the waist band.” “ I never selected that patternâ€"never! Why, woman, I’d 'be ashamed to to be found dead with those things on! The coroner’s jury would take me for a bun- ko manor 3. horse jockey ! To-morrow there will be a. dead tailor in this town, and don’t you forget it !” â€" “ That’s hardly phssible. When did you select them?" “ Four or five nights ago.” “By electric light, then. Of course they wouldn’t look quite the same by daylight, but I centainly admire your taste. You never selected a. moreâ€"” “ If he has changed on me I’ll hunt him to his grave l” interruped Mr. Bowser. 7“ D13; eh? Letr’s see how; they look. I hap- pened to see the pattern in his Window, and I took a fancy to it. How do you like it; ‘2" “ Tf’n n IDAâ€"1' L-_J--..~_ __.A.L-.__ A» “ It’s a. ver handsome pattern, an} “the materxal seems to be excellent. What’s the matter ‘2” “ By the great horn spoon and Gen. Jack- son 1” shouted Mr. Bowser, as he held the garment at: arm’s length, “ but the human hyena. has changed patterns onime l” \Vhen Mrs. Bowser opened the package and discovered a. new pair of summer trous- ers for M r.Bowser she straightway began to brace herself for the inevitable and to also rejoice and be thankful that he had not or- dered a whole suit at the same time. It was not until after dinner that evening and after she had observed that he was in an unusual- ly pleasant mood that she casually observ. eâ€"d .: “By the way, the tailor sent home a. new pair of trousers for you this afternoonâ€"that is, I suppose they are for you.” “ TIL! 5L0 TA«!---..L-.....L-_1--L TL-.. Family Jar Which Grew Out of a Tallot’s ebedlcncc to Instructions. BOWSBR’S ICE-CREAM TROUSERS. Experience Teachess Needed It. M. QUAD. There is sometimes much profit in little things. The rubber pencil tip is said to have brought its inventor $100,000. The pasteboard trays for shipping eggs have earned the inventor a fortune. A common necdle-threader brings an income of $10, 000 a. year to its inventor, While the “ re- turn ball” with a. rubber string, it is cred- ibly asserted, was worth $50,000 a. year for a. Whiie to the man who struck the notion The Spanish game of quoitsâ€"rayeulaâ€"is played with uupierced disks of iron about three inches in diameter-tejo. The hub con- sists of two curved pieces of wrought iron of an oval shape, terminating in apoint, which is stuck in the ground... The larger of these pieces, the pale, is placed in front of the other, the paletin. To strike the An English court has decided that a. cook â€"ma.le or femaleâ€"is not bound to give an employer notice before leaving, nor on the other hand is the empioyer required to notify the cook before dischargingher. The reason given is that if the cook was forced to remain against her will she might re- venge herself on the members of the family, or, in case of a club, upon her employers’ pations. We owe the hat to Asia, for it was in that country that the art of felting wool was first known, and from the most remote periods the art was carried on by the ori- entals. In India, China, Burmah and Siam hats are made of straw,of rattanmf bamboo, of pith, of the leaf of the Tallport palm and of a large variety of grasses. The Japan- ese made their hats of paper. The English custom of turning over a residence to a bridal pair for the honey- moon is often imitated this side the Atlan- tic, and is considered a. very proper and elegant thing to do. But the lending‘ of houses irrespective of the bridal element is also popular. Not infrequently persons going abroad for the summer offer their en- tire establishment to a friend for the ab- sence. When a. horse is trotting a. 2:20 gait his feet move a. little faster than a. mile in 1:10. As his body is moving at 52:20 and as each of his feet when in contact with the ground is stationary and then is picked up and moved forward to take the next step, the foot must move as much faster than the body as to make the step, which is over twice as fast. Last- year 233,495 persons visit-ed the Victoria. Niagara. Falls Park (on the Cana- dian side), which was nearly 40,000 less than in 1891. The falling ofi was in the carriage travel, the number of foot passengers having increased nearly one-quarter. The new electric railway is likely to cut down the hackmen’s receipts even more this season. Morse’s telegraph was made practical in 1837. The western Union now has 739,105 miles of Wire and sends 62,000,000 messages a, year. The world’s business is transacted partly by means of 246,000,000 messages sent every year. In 1883 there were in Europe 41,150 telegraph offices. The world in 1888 had 7 67,800 miles of telegraph wxres. Experiments with a. bicycle fitted out with a. small chemical tank and fire axe are being made by a. South Boston fire company, The bicycle has cushion tires and, with its whole outfit, weighs about sixty pounds. The tank holds about two gallons of chemi- cal. which amounts as an extinguisher to about twelve pails of water. Breech-loading rifles were invented in 1811, but did not come into general use for many years. It is estimated that over 12,- 000,000 are now in actual service in the lnropean armies, while 3,000,000 are re- served in the arsenals for emergencies. Statisticians say that there are 100,000,000 guns of all kinds in the world. A nearly adult specimen of the Malayan or Asiatic tapir is a. new addition to the zoological gardens at Regent’s Park,London, It is only at very long intervals that speci mens of this interesting animal have been obtained, the first being in 1840, the second in 1850, one in 1882 and the present exam- ple. The antiquity of the fan in the east, par- ticularly in Asia, extends far back beyond the possibility of ascertaining its date. In China and India. the original model of the fem was the wing of a. bird, and at one time was part of the emblems of imperial author- ity. The mountains of Guatemala. (meaning full of tree9)~a.re covered with magnificent forests, and the country takes its name from them. One of 11:9 principal products is gut- ta. percha; dye woods and other tropical trees abound. \Vheat was first exported from the Unit- ed States about; 1750. The world’s product in 1888 was estimated at 2,271,000,000 bushels; The crop of the United States last year was 519,490,000 bushels. Coal oil was first; used as an illuminantin 1826. The United States’ export of oil" In 1889 exceeded 111 value 5545, 000, 000. In the same year the world produced 34, 8:20, 306 barrels. During a. severe storm in Schley County, Georgia, the other dey, the house of A. L. Beckwith was struck by lightning in five different: places and at five different. times. \Vindow glass was first used in modern times in 1577. Now the consumption of plate glass alone exceeds 6,090,000 square feet in England and 9,000,000 in the United States. The head dresses of 1770 were as large that ladies going to balls were forced, to save their headgear, to kneel on the floors of their carriages. Steel pens were first made 1n 1803. The annual sales at present in the Uni ed States are estimated at 30, 000, 000 pens, while the world annually consumes? 3,0 000, 0‘0“. An English firm is using the silk of the wild silkworm, from which is woven a. soft, substantial fabric of a light tussore or 13011- gee shade. It is asserted that the best, strongest and most fibrous material in the shape of wood, now used as a. pulp for paper, is made from spruce logs. The Basilica. was originally 3. Covered por- tico in which law cases were heard and other business was transacted. It has been estimated thal; Great Britain has about 100,000 absolutely “ homeless wanderers. ” 1n the twenty years precedugg 1886'th.ere were 323,716 divorces in Amenca to 208,332 for all Europe. BRIEF AND IN TBRBSTING- The Wives of Siamese noblemen cut their hair so that it sticks straight up from their heads. The average length of it; is about an inch and a half. ' The Press Association learns that much distress has been caused to friends of the late Admiral Tryon by the suggestion ex- pressed or implied that he possibiy commit- ted suicide. A correspondent intimately connected with the late Sir George Tryon writes :â€"The Times of Friday refers to “the melancholy confirmation of the fact that the Admiral made no attempt to save his own life.” Another paper states that the last seen of the Admiral was stand- ing alone on the bridge. Another says the coxswain offered him a lifebuoy, which he refused, with his hand over his eyes, and said, “Save yourself.” Not one of these statements is correct. The statement of Staff-Commander Hawkins Smith and Lord Gilford before the court-martial is thisâ€" The. last words of Viceâ€"Admiral Sir George Tryon wereâ€"“ Now, youngster, save your- self. To a boat.” The next minute the “ Here, father, is the spot where I began ten years ago when I left home. You re- member you thought me a little foolishlgto buy a. peach orchard in Deleware. You said thatit was an uncertain crop, thatthere were too many peaches when we had a good year and none at all in a poor year. Then, too, you objected to peach trees as being short-lived trees liable to many. diseases. You were partly right, but things change in ten years. Well, to make a long story short, I had a pretty hard row to hoe at first. I depended entirely on the sale of fresh fruit and two bad years in succession nearly ruined me. Then I got married and that laid the foundation of my fortune.” “ How was that 1’” “Why, my wife wasagraduate of a. hos- pital in Baltimore and the first season after we were married was a good year and we had so many peaches that we couldn’t sell them and she begged me to let her preserve some and send them to Baltimore to the hospitals. She tried it and it worked first rate. She sold every bottle of preserved peaches she made and I declare if it didn’t just tide us over the winter. Well, the next year I rigged up a. kitchen back of the barn and we both went into preserving peaches in glass bottles. We were at first bothered to get goodenough peaches. There was fruit in plenty, but she wouldn’t touch it unless it was just right and prime A No. l peaches; and that set me to thinking, ‘What’s the use of raising seconds?‘ I de- clare I’d been doing it right alongâ€"same ’s all the neighbors did. Their notion was to get a big lot of peaches and to ship them ed“ as fast as possible for what they would fetch. My wife's notion was to get only the very tip top best and to preserve it and to hold it till she could get a good price in winter. And that’s why I’ve got the best orchard in this state.” Victoria gave a. lurch. Staff-Commander Hawkins Smith and Vice-Admiral Sir George Tyron were precipitated into the sea. They both disappeared together under the water. The admiral was never seen again. The admiral and the staff-command- er were together and alone on the top of the fore charthouse as she capsized. It is untrue that the coxswain ofiered him a. life- buoy. The coxswain was at that time bar- ring-in the ports of the admiral’s after-cabin. Feeling the ship going, he jumped overboard from the stern walk, taking with him a. lifebuoy. The story of American farm life with the above title written for The Chautauquan by Toeodore L. Flood and Charles Barnard, is completed in the September issue. In- cidentally many questions which vex the American farmer are discussed and much light thrown upon the real difficulties under which the farming business is carried on in many states. The following extract {is a. characteristic one : At race tracks persons desiring to bet on the result frequently manage to touch the hump of a. hunchback, believing that this will bring good luck. According to the beliefs of ancient Arabians and Germans, hunchbacks were the pets of fairies. The latter frequently removed or increased the humps, and hunchbacks who had thus been treated by the fairies were supposed to pos- sess some mystic power. They were sup- posed to bring good luck, and this might be imparted to persons who came into con- tact with the humps the fairies had given them. Suicide statistics, as recently published by an English doctor, show that taking the entire population of the world there is an attempt made every three minutes onnan average by some one to take his own life. It seems that Saxony is the quarter of the globe where suicide is the most popular, the ratio there being 469 suicides in 1,000,- 000 deaths. Portugal, on the other hand occupies the first place for infrequency_ of self-destruction, the proportion there being only sixteen to 1,000,000. In Spain, France, Ireland and some parts of England a. tinker is held in such ab- horrence by the common people as to make it almost impossible for him to get a meal or find lodgings tor the night. The reason alleged is that when the blacksmith was 01 dered to make nails for Christ’s crucifixion he refused, but the tinker made them and Christ condemned him and all of his race to be wanderers and never have a. roof of their own to cover their heads until the world’s em . \Vomen have ahandoned spoon-collecting in a. measure. No wonder I Some of them have a hundred or two of every size, shape or design. he latest thingâ€"a. real summer diversionâ€" collecting silver hat pins. You will notice the elaborateness of some of these sharp implements if you take any note of millinery elsewhere than in shop win- dows. Most of these pins would serve for daggers in case of need, being sharp enough and strong enough to dispatch a. man. The decisive step in the knowledge of distillation was taken in Egypt. There were invented the first real distilling apara- tus during the first centuries of the Chris- tian era. They are described precisely in the works of Zosimus, an author of .the third century, from the technical treatises of two women chemiste named Cleopatra and Mary. In the margin of a Greek text of St. Mark are the drawmgs of the appara- tus, and they agree exactly with the author’s descriptions. pale. with the quoit counts one, while to strxke the paletin, which is more difficult, counts two. The Late Admiral Tryou- The End of the Furrow- An occurrence that happened here last . night in the shape of what is called in this E state with a sadly reckless kind of humor 3. E necktie party will reveal the temper of the 1 people in tr is trouble. On Tuesday evening 3 about six o’clock, a man named Lightioot, ‘about 60 years of age, a war veteran and 1an old resident of Denver, went into an Italian saloon and drank a glass of beer; some dispute arose between the proprietor and the man Lightfoot about the pay for the beer. The Italian jumped on to Light- foot, pounded him into insenmbility with a glass, dragged him to the back part of the . saloon, and shot him. Last evening about ,‘ 8.30 an immense mob of men moved towardi the county jail cheering and howling “Hang ‘ the Dago.” When they reached the jail there was probably not less than 8,000 peo- ple in the mob. The leaders made a de- mand for admittance, the j ailor refused, and in a few minutes afterward the attack upon the doors commenced. The attack was made simultaneously on three separate en- trances, the mob using railway iron for bat- tering rams ; sledge hammers and picks were also at work. The guards in charge of the jail turned on a. stream of water from their hose through the wickets of the inner doors, and kept playing constantly on the. workers. The only effect this appeared to 1 have was to exasperate the men and make them work with still greater energy. It took about two hours of battering to effect an entrance, the doors finally gave way, and in a few minutes a thousand men were howling on the inside. The same tactics were adopted in breaking down the doors of the cell containing the mar- derer. He was dragged out taken over to a public street, Santa Fe avenue, and' there hanged on a tree and also riddled with bullets from revolvers. The body hung there for about 15 minutes while the crowd- passed in review underneath it. The lynch- ers then let- the body down , and with a shout started on a run dragging the Italian’s corpse over the ground and accompanied by‘ the crowd, until they reached 17th and Curtis streets where they again hoisted the body up on to a telegraph pole. At this point the police were allowed to take possession of the body and the party broke up. The city was in a disturbed condition all night, and the excitement was intense. It is an easy matter at the present time to congregate a mob, there are so many idle men walking about the streets who are ready to follow a crowd at any moment, all that is necessary is a. leader and you can mass an army of men in 15 minutes. The citizens interested in the welfare of Denver deplore and condemn the proceeding. Of course it is a serious matter for a city of 130,000 inhabitants to have lawlessness so rampant. and be apparently powerless to prevent it. The whole performance, how- ever, is attributable to the unsettled condi- t10_n of affairs in existence. I will be among the unemployed after the first of the month, my employer’s business has flattened clear out, and there is nothing for me to do only draw salary, so the boss concluded to stop that. I tried to convince him that it was entirely wrong, but he would not be convinced. The Denver Hard- ware Co. made an assignment this morning. Apparent Intelligence in Plants- Nowhere is the evidence of design in na- ture moreiemphatically set forth than among certain forms of plant life, which in their various functions seems to approach so near the animal kingdom that the observer feels that there is some strange plant animalâ€" something that might possibly form a. con- necting link between the animals and the plants. In a close study of these plants we see many evidences of seeming intelligence that are not found in some animals, and so remarkable are the actions of certain plants that the impression is forced upon us that we are confronted with intelligence or some- thing strangely akin to it. MANY EMPLOYEES WERE DISCHARGED, wages were cut down; mechanics’ hours were shortened, and a most deplorable con- dition of affairs was created. The side- walks of our principle streets are crowded with idle men, not tramps, but good, hard- working miners, mechanics, clerks, etc. The charitable institutions are feeding hundreds of destitute people every day. How long they can continue to do this I cannot say Freight and other trains are crowded with men trying to beat their passage out of Colo- rado, with the hope of finding the Eastern country in better shape than the West. Every city and town in the state is suffer- ingequally with Denver ; over 1,500 miners have gone out to Leadville alone during the past week, and there are hundreds of others thrown out of employment in the different silver mining camps throughout the State. In the early part of this week, the State Boiler Inspector went into the mountains to inspect boilers; out of 107 locations of boilers that he visited in California Gulch which is Leadville, only three were in use. The banks that are closed have tied up a great deal of money, this has added largely to the seriousness of the situation, it is con- fidently expected that most of the suspend- ed banks will resume payment, but when and upon what terms is a. question just now. point for all towns and mining Camps in the state. There is also a 1.5280 quantity of general merchandise, mining machinery, etc., supplied from Denver to New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Wyoming. Denver has been favored with an exceptionally prosper. ous time for several years prevmns to the present one, and on account of this the de- pressmn in values is felt most heenly, The cause of the crisis in Colorado is attributed to the drop in price'of silvel} The. action of the British Government in closing the Indian mint-s to the free coinage of silver, had an immediate and disastrous effect upon one of our most important industries. Silver drapped to 70 cents and closed a large Ina. jority of our mines; the demand for sup. plies immediately ceased, and orders placed were countermanded. Six national and four Sm'ings banks closed their doors, demands for payments were made upon merchants, which they could not meet, and they were compelled to make assignments or be closed on attachments. Every business in this city immediately curtailed expenses ; ' Scenes of Distress and la‘Vlessncss. A correspondent of the Montreal Witness says :â€"I can give you 8- few facts which will enable people in the E35.“ 9° realize the con- dition of Denver and It 18 only a sample of all cities in the mining states at the preéenb time. This city is Eh? _P?in°iPa1 supply IN A SICK SILVER CITY. A M URDEREB LYSCIIL'D. TEE WE Mr. George Onn, has shippe a sample of put lead mine that ! The Dominic: reported to ha‘ inst. about. five ionndland with son. A party c England last m Thom Luck f1 Onn, on Sam-(h: ofi'. An eighbyear- was run over at Bus“Jihad fatal I 011 Saturday pounds was wit England for shi] _ It is announce There are sev Bamardo’s boys bee Cenml m1 thgmnd pounds prior lien bonds. The em {ayes Wespem ailwa Pfsyment of back he road is tied I crushed while on Friday, and Toronto Genera Mr. Robert 1 moving train Onllia on Mon of his legs bei Valeria Edm driving with he on Sunday eve the horse whicl head. She die‘ memorial for ‘ E. Wade, of Michael Tie: by the broken river, at Palm receiving injut 1y afterwards. competition. were consult The Canadian 8. further inviu ers to visit this the condition 1 Tapper is now tive men. On the trial Cunard steam of twenty-five A train on t‘ The mill own refused to 30¢ bands, who rec from eleven no the advanced 1 is unlikely. The Queen health. to Cardiff, V Saturday, ca! persons. Another de: at Grimsby, I ported from 1 Island hospiu The shippini don has decl This resu1t IS I dock strike of! The appoini naught to snot in the comma: officially anno The Britisl Kinley, fro: ashore at Ca: full of water. Three wom ioualy made In each case 1 knife. It is 1 at his work a Bombay, I: of fatal religi and Hindoo: killed. The fired upon a 1 says that 4 day night thundersto‘ amount of ‘ The Alla: an action f0 hundred p01 men’s Unim with oppres and also th Themmpeti: The Behri at Paris mm Briefly stat; jprisdiction around the ordered. Til the United the seizure 4 ship at Qu Admiral St. England onl on board 111‘ toria, the mean squ in collision ofi‘ Tripoli, patched to for the pa to Englan The bat: and Michi wifh abou‘ Severah Siam wk some time Destmcti special