OF THE 376 suicides who ended their lives in New York last year, by far the greater number were divorced people, says the Medical Review. From a table prepared for the year 1895, it is shown that there were in Germany during that year 2,834 suicides of men either divorced or separated from their wives and 948 suicides of widowers, as against only 286 suicides of married men. It is also shown that 343 women separated from their husbands and 124 widows died by their own hands, in contrast with 61 married women and 87 unmarried. In Wurtemburg, to every million inhabitants, there are 1,540 lunatics among divorcés or women separated from their husbands and 338 among the widows, while there are only 224 among unmarried women. There are 1,484 lunatics among the men who are divorced or separated from their wives, 338 among the widowers, and only 236 among the bachelors. THE QUARTERLY list of American tin plate works, which was published in the Metal Worker a short time ago, shows that on July 1 there were thirty-six complete tin plate plants rolling their own black plates in actual operation in the United States and three in course of construction. The active plants possessed an aggregate of 179 tin mills, having an estimated yearly capacity of about 5,500,000 boxes of tin plates. In addition to these establishments there were thirty-one tin plate dipping works, without rolling mills, possessing an aggregate of 169 tinning sets. At the end of June the production of American tin plate is estimated to have been going on at the rate of over 4,000,000 boxes yearly. During the last quarter the New Castle Steel and Tin Plate Company, of New Castle, Pa., has completed large extensions to its works, making it an eighteen-mill plant. This gives the United States the largest and most complete tin plate works in the world. Its annual capacity is three-quarters of a million boxes.