Suicide among Children.—During the ten years ending in 1896 in the State of Prussia alone, 407 children—331 boys and 76 girls—under fifteen years of age, committed suicide. The cause is said to be overstrain in education. The Berlin correspondent of the London Mail, after referring to the success of the German educational system from a commercial view-point, says: “The question is, Has this success been attained by sapping the heart-blood of the nation?” The cause, he seems to indicate, is poverty and low feeding. “In an article in the current number of the German Imperial Gazette on ‘National Economics’ it is stated that in Prussia, out of a total population of nearly thirty-two millions, 8,740,000 heads of families and persons with an independent existence (with their families representing nearly 70 per cent. of the population) do not earn £45 ($225) per annum. This shows that the ordinary workingman is very poor, and as meat of all kinds is terribly dear in Prussia, it is evident that the pupils of elementary schools can not, as a rule, receive the nourishment necessary to sustain them during their hard school life.” But flesh food is no more necessary to children than to colts or horses. As healthy, happy, hopeful children as there are in the world, never or rarely taste meat. Would it not be well to inquire how much beer and skepticism have to do with the matter? It certainly constitutes a sign of the times.