The number of patents issued in the United Kingdom between 1881 and 1896 shows the following extraordinary rate of increase:

Total.

$170,500 $4,449,500 $186,600 $1,118,000 $2,042,300 $1,192,900 $383,700 $14,216,400 $23,759,900

VELOCITY OF WINDS IN THE UNITED STATES.

(Prepared by Chief of the Weather Bureau.)

The following table shows the average hourly velocity of the wind at selected stations of the United States Weather Bureau, also the highest velocity ever reported for a period of five minutes :

LABOR STATISTICS.

UNITED KINGDOM.

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS AND PERSONS AFFECTED, BY TRADES, 1891 TO 1895.

(Only Those Strikes and Lockouts were Considered for which Persons Affected were Reported. Persons Affected means Persons Thrown Out of Work.)

WORKING DAYS LOST AND PERSONS AFFECTED BY STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN 1895.

RESULTS OF STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS TO EMPLOYÉS, BY CAUSES, IN 1895.

The following table shows the number of persons, by industries, who at the time of the enumeration of June 14, 1895, belonged to the employé class, and the per cent. that the number of unemployed at that time and on December 2, 1895, was of this total. Persons engaged in domestic and personal service, and those employed in the State, communal, and church service, are not included in this table.

NUMBER AND PER CENT. OF PERSONS OF THE EMPLOYÉ CLASS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT JUNE 14 AND DECEMBER 2, 1895, BY INDUSTRIES.

NUMBER AND PER CENT. OF PERSONS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT JUNE 14 AND DECEMBER 2, 1895,

POPULATION OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE ENGAGED IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES.

[A considerable number of strikes were due to two or three causes, and the facts in such cases have been tabulated under each cause. Hence the totals for this table necessarily would not agree with

those for the preceding tables.]