RECENT statistics based on the census show that in Milwaukee, where more beer is made and drank than in any other city of equal size in the world, there are twice as many suicides as in any other municipality of the same population. This induces one of the leading German papers of the West to admit that in all the cities of the country the Germans are, in proportion to their numbers, twice as well represented among the suicides as any other people, and the excessive use of beer is assigned as the cause. "There is no doubt," says the journal referred to, "that the moderate use of beer brightens up and cheers men; but there is also no doubt that too much beer stupifies and demoralizes the drinker, and, if its use is persisted in, makes him melancholy and weak-minded. It is apt to result in certain attacks of melancholia, which comes upon the beer-topera, and in which he bewails himself and his fate, pities himself as a wretched being, and finally lets his heavy head and weeping eyes sink languidly on the table." The same authority, however, considers beer a beverage of exceeding virtue in comparison with spirituous liquors, which, it contends "transforms a man into a blood-thirsty wild beast and violator of the laws."