The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-12

Our high-pressure civilization has It's
disadvantages aud dangers, which 1t Is
well not to forget. one is that the fe-
verIsh activities it encourages are often
TOO much for the brain, whose tine
structure too often yields to overwork
or undue excitement. This evil Is
.AlarmingIy on the increase, both here
and on the other side of the Atlantic.
Last year the London Medical Times
aud Gazette reported that the number
OF the insane in England had increased
twenty-one per cent. In i've years,
while the population had only in
creased five per cent. In France the
case was still worse, The number of
the5insans Increased forty per cent. in
i've years, while the population only
Increased two per cent. That is to say,
the French are twice as crazy as the
English. Perhaps Frenchman would
retort AS Robert Hill did, when some
fool asked him what brought him to an
insane asylum "whatg will never
bring you here, sir-too much brains"
The Pal Mall GdEette takes up this
subject afresh, and confirms what the
Medical Journal had said as to the
alarming increase OF insanity. m esti-
mates that In England mental diseases
have gained on the population TO the
sxtenCof At least three per cent per an
mum since 1859. The present ratio OF
theinsane to the population, u puts at
one to every four hundred and ten. In
the whole of Great Britain there is the
greatest amount Eofjnsanity in Eng
land and the least in Ireland, probably
because in the former there is the great
est mental activity andFthe most high
living.
In this country 1t Is conceded fact
that insanity has increased considera-
bly, in the last ten years. Nowhere in
the world is the strain on the mental
organization greater or more intense
than here, where the work of gener-
alton is done in year. = ~ rETr5r rT d
"PooR CARLoTTA, ;, resisted strenuous
iy when she was told that she should
be removed from Miramar to the palace
Of Laeken, near Brussels. She said she
would die sooner than leave her villa.
Rer doctors, Riedel. the celebrated
psychIatrist, ofVIenna, and Dr. nleck,
Of Trieste, after making vain efforts to
persuade her, finally gave it up, and
advised the Imperial family to leave
her at Miramar. However, the King OF
Belgium and his brother, the Count OF
Flanders. insisted on her being convey
ed to her old home at Laeken; and DR..
Bnlkens, director of the lunatic asylum
of Gheel, in Belgium, succeeded, during
visit which he paid to the unfortu-
nate lady, in persuAding her to consent
to her removal TO Belgium. The kind
hearted man addressed her in the Flem-
ish language, which she had not heard
for ever SO long, and which delighted
her now. She would not let the doctor
leave her, and made him even sing 10
her number of Flemish songs. When
he incidentally asked her whether she
would not like to return to her native
country, she replied at once in the az
firmative. A few days afterward, Queen
Mary, of Belgium, CarlottA's sister-in-
law, visited her. She came in dAen
mourning, but had to chsnge her dress
before being admitted to CarIotta
whence her suite concluded that Car.
lottR had nos yet been Informed OF her
husbands eXeoution. The interview
between Carlotts and Queen Mary was
highly affecting.