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propriationa; the expenses last year amounted t » tnree hundred ana eighty-one thousand dol< lars. The first patient was received in 1851. Now it contains over nine hundred. An additional building was erected lasl Buramer increasing the capacity to twelve hundred. A.s I walked back to my hotel, I thought how much better the insane are treated at pj 'lit. than they were a centun ago. Then, many were entirely negl ted. When asylum were first founded they resembled jails, both in instruction and in the way in which they were kept. The keeper was chosen more for his muscular power than for his experience or ibility. The unfortunate inmates were shut up in small cell ind often cruelly treated. The buildings now are provided with ev;ry comfort. Tne best doctors and the most xpeiienced ami humane attendants are employed. The influence "1' kindness, recr< ion ami employment have been added to medical treatment ami substituted for terror, force and cruel .

principle underlying a van* A p •*** Provision baa been n le for I tin duel upon lai mall b yield no ralti beyond their du

it v can also be i d \>\ 11. mh-nt -. four n h In t h e s o u t h room

THI NEW MINING MACHINERY.

HI '1 of Mining Engineering, the U J , ;• ingest of the technical department • V^y ol University, within the past year has been supplied with some much n [< d ap: This 1 M ))1 1 in room d j/i tin- I ment oi the Chemical I. '1 him not merely mall modlapted illustr u l«- pi ol ore •lit, 1 i* inU*n I t > crive tin- mininff < degi of familiarity with th

power boiler, communicating i h an horse-power engine made at tin* I shops. In the northi orner ( b room are rowa of shelvi >ng tab] filters, cupl irds, a sink ml h. A raised plat form over a.i i ival i | convenient i floor through which tin per of the Dod\ < r \ Ih machine is BO arranged that it may ( alone or as an adjunct I i pair of on \\ rolls which rest upon tin* tl< nder tl pi form. The product from the rolls will ordinarily pass by a Bpout to the r which raisi the material to tl eiling. Froi tl it is discharged either in i i I icle u n the main floor or int the first com parti >f a r e v o l v i n g scr n. T h • ^i it<» six different lots. All b u t tl th.* very coarse c a n !>«• s e p a r a t e l y w o r k e d u p the jigging machine which washes out th gangue, retaining tin- vain portion. Tl coai fragments which nm»t j hn gh the first screen are returned to tl recrushed. The finest grade | - at the hydraulic separator where it i- ~ d into three part- for further tn itment IJ > tl. n rotating table. Here the wast - ar washed off, the heavier, valuable p

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Each part of the plan pendently, making it p ble to chai tl pri at will. Tim leaden general . w a* ing bott I hopper rata, 1 % tr I her appliani • don north w signed for gold chlorinal tho* t Bide, for ro I in fusing and cupell