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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
Statistics Of Suicide.

ALBERT RHODES in the current number
of the Gainry has an article on "Suicide, "
which. if it contains nothing very new.
gives some interesting statistics, moi
always over accurate. He notes first the
growing disposition to seek death on slight
provocation, growth to which Il cult.
waited understanding offers no resistance.
American reports of the causes of sui
eide are justly characterized rs inaccurate.
In this city there is an aversion to record
ing the occupations of gamblers and
abandoned characters when they commit
suicide, or to reporting suicide from
drunkenness i'll persons of high social
position. In the three years 1902 there
were 3o9 cases of suicide, the last year
showing a very heavy increase over the
first Clerks furnish the greatest number
of cases; poisoning is the favorite mode
Of seeking death, and Paris green is the
tavorite poison. DIR. Allan McLane
Hamilton says that in 1872, of fifty moi
soning cases twenty-five took Paris green.
and the others chose either opium, car
bolic acid, or other irritants-in short.
that most of them took violent and pain
full poisons.'' There is a very simple
way of accounting for this it is easier to
obtain Paris green, carbolic acid or opium
than to get prusslc acid or strychnine A
large number of the suicides in New
IoIh are causeu by misery, particularly
among foreigners recently arrived. They
embark Tor the new country on the flat
ering representations of cmigrant agents
in foreign ports, and disembark at the
Battery TO find themselves deceived.
Without money, friends or employment,
and perhaps sick from want of food and
change of climate, they seek relief from
trouble in death.
According to the censuses of 1850 and
1860 there were 491 suicides in the former
and 1913 in the latter year. These returns
are, however, so manifestly incomplete
that it was not worth the trouble of ana
lying them. 1t is safe to say that the
mail-rcader OF the World could CLEAN from
the exchanges of one onth from $50 to
200 cases.
METHODS OF sELF-DEsTRUCTIUN.
The following table shows the methods
OF selfdestruction adopted in 10000 cases
there are only q qQ3-hy zach sox.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
An 0Id-Time Heroic Sacrifice.

A Madrid letter in the St. Louis Globe
Democrat says: The guide told me an old
time incident that occurred not far from
Valencia In one of the triumphs of the
M0ors over the Christians band of SOL
dicrs secured the country to recruit for
the Alhambric monarch's harem. In so
doing they espied nunnery, which was,
of course, their especial adherence, and
they Immediately galloped toward it to
secure the prizes it contained, doubly-
jealous since it was for their religion as
we'll as sovereign The nuns looked with
horror upon their approach, for the
rumors of their hateful errand had pre-
coded them, and hastily consulted among
themselves as to what they could Co to
avoid the degradation and sacrilege
Their only chance was to make them
selves unattractive, and one among them
proposed that they should cut off their
noses, that which surely nothing could
make them more ugly. This was ap-
proved by the others Though ii is to be
supposed with more or less hesitation,
since it was not only painful, but would
make them repulsive forever after); and,
when the Moors reached them, the many
beautiful Spanish maidens inclosed in the
sacred walls had, thanks to their courage,
become sufficiently unpleasant objects to
avoid being exposed to the threatened
dissertation.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

The uncertainties of life and railroad
travel were well illustrated at Oakland on
Thursday morning, the principal actor
being a well-known merchant of New
York city who was about to return TO his
home. He had purchased through tickets
the day before, and, moreover, had as
sumed the protection on the journey of
the wife and two children of friend in
this city, who were to start from this side
of the bay and meet him at the Market
Street Station, Oakland. He was prompt
ly on hand at the hour of the trains ar
rival, but, supposing it would stop for
some little time and being engaged in an
animated discussion with friend, he paid
little attention to its movements. Sud-
denly his friend. more observant, cried
out: Your train is goingr' and, look
ing hastily around, there it was. sure
enough, moving out of the station at con-
siderable speed and he some twenty rods
away. Though it was evidently hopeless
to pursue he broke for the receding cars
without exchanging the ordinary civilities
of parting with his companion; but
though the " time" he maze is confident
" supposed to have eclipsed any former
record, he fell behind rapidly and had to
abandon the chase. In frantic haste he
tore around and found the station master
asnd demanded the price at which engines
were customarily detailed TO assist per-
sons in making their connections"
1.-TWO hundred and fifty dollars" bland
ly remarked the official. "Donep' said
the New Yorker. An engine was fired up
and run out, the belated one ;umbled up
the side, and away they went like the
wind A stern chase is proverbially
long one, and this was no exception to
the rule; but a dispatch sent back to Oak
land during the day announced that the
train had been caught; the lady and chill
dren-Tho had wondered where their
protector was and feared for his safety
comforted, and the unfortunate occasion
ofall the soluble relieved from his anx-
iety and the fear that he should be forever
disgraced by his apparent cold blooded
population of a sacred trust.-.Saa Fran
cisco Chronicle.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
CAUSES OF SUICIDE
AS usual. there are provoking errors

AS usual, there are provoking errors in
the table, since Mr.. Rhodes gives it as one
of "5,114 suicides in 1885," while the
total Is D, 134. The percentages in the
GALAXY are made up on the basis of 5,114
and consequently have been changed.
INCREASING SUICIDE RATE.
1t is found" says Mr.. Rhodes, 81 that
the number of suicides has been steadily
increasing for many years, more rapidly
relatively than population and mortality
In SaxOny, Denmark and Sweden they
increase in the proportion of from two to
five for each million of inhabitants per
annum. The percentage of annual in
crease in France is 1866 in Bavaria, 1 II !;
in the two Mecklenbourgs, 70, and in
Prussia, lao" A more Trustworthy
showing is that afforded by the official
statistics of France, as follows;
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
A New and Strange Poison.

A correspondent of the st. LOUIS Globe
Democrat writes from Berlin, Prussia,
that Prof. Liebreich, who was charged
with the examination of a most danger
Gus poison named "incassa," by the
African Society of Berlin, reported at the
session of the Anthropological Society as
follows:
Having succeeded in producing an ex-
tract and then crystals from the plant to
be examined and to operate with the lat
ter, it soon became evident that it was a
poison of the most fearful efficacy. Per-
haps there is scarcely another poison
which, even in most minute quantity, acts
on animal bodies in the same torturing
and violent manner. 1t IS a fact remark
ed under the skin, produces fearful
bilious vomiting. The animal is fully
conscious. Upon being called it moves
the head and wags its tail until it sudden
ly breaks down and expires. The cause
of death is then found to be paralysis of
the heart, it being filled with blood. Ii
seems at times as if the effect of the
poison would have abated and the animal
recover, but such Is not the case. This
poison being employed in some of the
courts of Africa to establish the guilt or
innocence of parties, there are most prob
ably some instances in which it proves to
he harmless. However, it can occur only
when possibly by larger quantity the
emetic effect is SO violent that the poison
as well is thrown up. From the small
piece of poisonous bark given him to ex-
anime he could not arrive at any conclu-
sion as TO The nature of the plant pro-
ducing the " incassa," though he noticed
that the Echtlin poison produced by the
negroes in Jamaica is similar in its eff
feet to the poison here described. 1t is
patent that poison, slow though mo
deadly in its effect, was resortcd to by the
negroes to kill their masters, when the
post-mortem examination established like
wise the fact that death had been caused
by paralysis of the heart, and it being
filled with blood. On the other hand il
is well known that the effect of the va
rious Asclepian extracts is similar on ami
nal organisms, so that, perhaps, we may
rightly infer that the poison may belong
to the Asclepians
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

While the population of France has in
creased 20 per cent. since 1896, the num-
Der of suicides has grown from 1,739 to
5,114, an increase of 1914 per cent. The
increase is greater among men than
women. From ia for a million of in
habitants in 1S36-1840, the number of
masculine suicides rose to 219 in 1866
1869, or 90 per cent, while the increase
in the number of feminine suicides during
the corresponding periods was only from
there is noted an increase. (Mr. Rhodes
should have thought of looking up the
population tables) In the ten years end
ing 1871 there were recorded 757 cases to
1851, S51; to 1861, 1871, and to 1871, 791.
SUICIDE IN CITIES.
Suicides are much more numerous in
the cities than in the country, in proper
ton TO the population throughout Europe
The following table shows the relative
proportion for 1,000,0 900 of inhabitants:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
METHODS OF sELF-DESTRUCTIUN
The following table shows the methods
Of selfdestruction adopted in 1000 cases
there are only g.g98-by each sex.

Upon this point Mr.. Rhodes notes a ten
dency towards violent methods on the
part of men and pacific methods on the
part of women. He might have gone
further and accounted for these prefer
ences. If the woman hangs, browns or
poisons herself it is because there is, under
ordinary circumstances, no possibility of
revoking the step once taken, and the
methods are practicable. If she does not
adopt the pistol it is because she does not
understand the use of the weapon and
cannot easily obtain it. As to cutting her
threat she lacks the resolution for what is
complex and continued act, as compared
with the simple and instantaneous one of
stepping from off a chair, leaping from a
bridge or swallowing draughl Of poison
besides, what a nasty and unbecoming
corpse she would make.
One wouldn't be fright when one is dead.
AGE OF SUICIDES.
On this point Mr.. Rhodes figures
(taken from the eighth census-nine cases
evidently omitted) are presented in more
complete and convenient form:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

The following pretty optical expert
ment is sent to Nature by Prof. F. E.
Nipher, of ST. Louis: Observe a white
cloud through plate of red glass with
one eye and through green glass with the
other eye. After some moments transfer
both eyes to the red glass, opening and
closing each eye alternately. The strength,
ening of the red color in the eye fatigucd
by its Complementary green is very strik-
ing. The explanation of the phenomena
is, of course, well known, and many modi-
fications of the experiment will readily
suggest themselves.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

In memoir by Ludicke he shows
that the atmospheric pressure diminishes
with the waxing and increases with the
waning moon The pressure is less at
The perigree than at the apogee, and in
eneral the effect of the moon upon the
atmosphere is the inverse of that which 1t
produces upon the ocean. The observa-
lions on which his results are based ex-
tend over eight years; but the actual effect
of the moon upon the baromctric pressure,
although undecided, is yet exceedingly
small
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
Tho Common.Sep.e school.

AS newspapers call Prof. Jones' School OF
industrial Instruction, at Evanston, ILL.,,
grows in numbers every week. Chicago
papers report fifteen acccssions from other
schools Jan. 3, seven on Jan. 10, and twelve
on Jan. II. Students now at other institu-
tons are engaging rooms for next term
Think of teachers spending all their time
IN teaching scholars, one by one, instead OF
hearing rectations. Think of scholars adj
vancing independently, instead Of like
Chain gangs! This is common sense.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

DR.. Bathurst Woodman, in an article
contributed to the London Sanitary Record,
directs attention TO the fact that ginger
beer, though usually considered a very
innocent drink, contains II percentage of
alcohol about half as large us that found
in the malt liquors in common use among
the middle classes of society in England,
and equal to that in many OF the cheaper
ales made in that country, and the beer
drank in Germany and other parts of the
Continent
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

ScHENcK's PULMoNIo sIRur, SEA WEED Tonic
AND MANDRAKE PILLs.-These deservedly celc-
brated and popular medicines have effected a rev.
olution in the healing art and proved the fallacy
of several maxms which have for many years OBJ
sructed the progress Of medical science. The
false suppositiOn that Consumption is incurabe'
deferred physicians from attempting to find renie-
dies for that disease, and patients afflicted with it
reconcied themselves to death without making an
effort to escape from n doom which they supposed
to be unavoidable. 1t is now proved however.
that Consumption can be cured, and that it has
been cured in a very great number Of cases (some
of them apparently desperate ones) by Schenck s
Pumonic Syrup alone; and in other cases by the
same medicine in connection with Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both. &C
cording to the requirements of the case.
DIR. Schenck himself, who enjoyed uninterrupted
good health for more than forty years, was sup
posed at one time to be at the very gate Of death,
his physicians having pronounced bis case hope
less, and abandoned him to his fate. He was
cured by the aforesaid medicines, and, since his
recovery many thousands similarly affected have
used DR.: Schenck's preparations with the same re-
markable success
Full directions accompany each, making it not
absolutely necessary to personally see Dr. Schenck
unless patients wish their lungs examined. and
for this purpose he is professionally at his princi-
pal office corner Sixth and Arch streets. Philadel-
phia, every Monday, where all letters for advice
must be addressed. Schenck's medicines are
sold by all druggists
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
Fun on Ice.

On any pleasant winter afternoon the
man or woman desiring to witness or par
ticipate in some genuine, old-fashloned,
healthful sport and exercise may be graf
ffied by visit to the locality known by
the attractive appellatIon of Bay View
Marsh. At this time of the year almost
every hour Of the day, between daylight
and dark, finds crowd OF rosy-cheeked
lads and lassies enjoying that delightful
sport, ice-boating, for which the clear
strip of ice extending about half mile is
finely adapted.
The swift and graceful glide of the ice
boat unattended by any labor save an
easy shifting of the ruddcr, 10 very agree
able to those who have seats upon it. and
the sight of q pair of the boats in a race,
scudding powerfully along with the wind,
IL an interesting If not an exciting scene.
A well-trimmed ice-boat, With runners
In good order, when the wind is at all
favorable, will sail at the rate of mile In
two minutes, and on the Bay View Marsh
full mile has been made In one minute
Of time. Puffy breezes are particularly
annoying, however, and render the sport
rs laborious as pleasurable Little prac-
tics il required in guiding, and the sport,
generally considered, is FIRST class. With
asteady wind blowing boat of ordinary
capacity will carry four persons at the
speed of fast trotter very easily and
without jar or annoyance, afording loads
Of fun to all who participate Hitl0aukss
Neacs.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

ECoNoMY-You will save money by using
Proctor d Candles Original Notified German
Soap. 1t will not waste nor become soft
like ordinary yellow soap when used in warm
water, nor is it cheapcned with articles inju
rious to clothes. Remember, you obtain full
one pound bar if you purchase their brand.
To protect their brand from imitators
Proctor Il Gamble patented it, and the patent
was sustained in the United States Courts.
Examine the stamp on the bars when you
buu Take eir 81 aD only
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

FKRsoNAL.-W.J NcEzroy.-sAs q gem
eral family remedy for Dyspepsia, Torpid
Liver, Constipation, etc, I hardly ever use
anything else but SIMMONS LIVER REGU-
LATOR, and have never been disappointed
in effect produced; it seems to be almost
perfect cure for all diseases of the stomach
and bowels.''
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

be much heavier because of their greater
excitement, more notable vicissitudes of
fortune and larger population of disap-
pointed and penniless pcople.-N. Y.
| World
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

MATHEMATICS is a science with many
parts bureau with an elaborate series
of drawers The foundation of all is
arithmetic, and in the almost countless
compartments of this drawer is contained
the whole of the science as it pertains to
financial and commercial transactions,
small and great, simple and complex II
Is only as one branches out i'm surveying,
navigation or astronomy that any use is
made of so-called higher mathematics. I"
Every man and every woman needs to I'M
derstand arithmetic. 1t comes in use con-
stantly. 1t is only one among ten thousand
who has any use for any other department
of mathematics.-Chieago Erentng Jour.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

GENTIAN WAS our grandmothers' hobby for
a tonic, and no bitter would be considered
complete without it; hence it enters into
nearly all. But experience has proved that
it is Injurious to the stomach if frequently
used A far better tonic is found in GtIarand
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

A PHILOSOPHER says: "I never yet
heard q man or woman much abused that
was not inclined 10 think the better Of
them, and transfer any suspicion or dis.
like TO the person who appeared to take a
delight in pointing out the defects of a
fellow creature
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

Attention is called to the fact that the
chcwing-gu privilege of the Centennial
is not vet disposed Of
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

OK the Sd of January Michigan farmers
were blowing their fields. On the 10th
they were using crowbars to dig the plows
out Of the burrows. Is 1t any wonder that
we all love America?
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

There is no necessity for commenting
upon these statistics or attempting to ac-
count for the divergences that display
themselves at certain eras of life Gen
orally speaking, women are to the age of
thirty much more liable to commit sui
eide than males; for the next twenty
years there is no appreciable preponder
ance on either side; in old age One-half
more men than women destroy them
selves.
CAUSES OF SUICIDE.
From M. Legoyt's statistics taken from
the official reports of various European
nations, the following table is derived,
table not nearly explicit enough:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

DR.. PIERCE's PLEASANT PURGATIvE PEI
LETS are SO compounded from concentrated
principles, extracted from roots and herbs,
as to combine in each small granule, scarce
thartic power as is contained in any larger
pills for sale in drug stores. They are not
only pleasant to take, but their operation is
easy-unattended with any gripping pain.
They operate without producing any con-
stitutional disturbance. Unlike other ca
thartics, they do not render the bowels cos
tive after operation, but, on the contrary,
they establish a permanently healthy action.
Being entirely vegetable, no particular care is
required while using them.
$500 Re,yard is offered by the proprietor to
anyone who will detect il these Pellets any
calomel or other form of mercury, mineral
poison or injurious drug
They are sold by Druggists.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
AND Patti has paid s1a 800 for a flu

md Pattl has paid VI, 300 Tor Fur
cloak May we ask what fur,-Bu1alo
Erpress. No. She's sable to pay for it,
so mind your own affairs and let er mine
hcrs.-N. y. Commercial Advertiser
Wh-otter fuss over furriner. PhitadeL
phta Chronicle.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05

WENDELL PHILIIrs once said: 81 paint
with large brush-lor the multitude"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
RheumatIsm a Symptom OF other Dbl
cases.


The alarming extent Of chronic rheuma-
tism in the country has led to persistent in
vestigation. 1t has lately been ascertained
plicated diseases of the liver, kidneys, PAN
creas, blood, absorbents, etc. In other
words, that rheumatism is a symptom. 1t
is also found that, by the removal of the
complicated disease, the rheumatism disap-
pears, as a result which seems to substantiate
the theory. We all know, to our sorrow,
how fruitless the ordinary treatment of this
disease has been, and we now hail with joy
the dawn of this new discovery. We all
know that the symptoms of these diseases
are generally present in cases OF chronic
rheum atism, but few have supposed the
disease to be an effect
To remove these diseases the surest remedy
can be found in the SHAKER EXTRACT OF
RooTs OR CURATIVE SYRUP; 1t appears to
be working many cures. We refer to the
article sold by Druggists and A. J. White,
New York.