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Show SUICIDE AND HARD TIMES. Plenty of suicidea are stiil reported M any ot the victims are persons who were of no account in the world, but now and then ws hear of the suicidt ol a man or woman who promipcd well and who might have done well. Failure to find work ia frequeutij tbt-cauae tbt-cauae of the act on Hie male aide, but not always. Domestic trouble usually leade to it among wotut-n. A lew daye ago a Spaniard, a man ot gooii family connections and Uir personal aocompliahmenta, committed suicide in hia boarding house. He bad made a living by singing in opera, but latterly this resource failed him, aud as his prospects in life were growing dark he closed accounts wiln tin world by leaving it. One of hi-fellow hi-fellow boarders testified before tne coroner that tbe Spaniard had frequently expressed a horror of work land said it would be more honorable to die. But moat of those woo lake the last desperate leap do eo because tiiey oannot, or fancy they cannot, tind mians to live. New Yoik swarm-with swarm-with men ot fair capucily who canucl net employment of any sort. As a rule, such rur-n fare worse than, men of a coarser fibre, because they are disqualified for taking hold of the od;i jubn than men ol the rougher cla-i-occasionally pick up. It would be almost suicidal for a stranger to cum to New York expecting to find-:i situation. New hands arenottaki-n on everywhere, but old ones are beiti steadily discharged. Tnere mv possibly be belter times ahead anil cot far off either but at present tm situation ia not by any means en couraging. Scores of families art-reported art-reported an tiering for food, -the charitable Rnmptips aro mnmno nm of fund, and Ihe prospect all aroucd lias a dark tinge, that ia decided iy unpleaaant to look at. jYcw Wrk Sun. |