The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-16
Suicides in italy.

Italian suicides are aStOnlShingly null
hilarious and capricious. Naturally, in
these times, pecuniary troubles have
swelled the list, but love, jealousy and
abnormal disgust of life, also, are predom-
mating influences Recently, in front of
my house, handsome young girl, fear
ing that she would be Tilted, dressed her.
self in her best attire, jumped from the
third-story window, dashing her brains
out on the pavement: and there she lay
for an hour or more, surrounded by a
gaping crowd, waiting for the "Misericor-
dia" to carry off the corpse, no one pre-
Stunning to touch it before the arrival
of these b!ack-shyouded brethren, who
have monopoly of such matters. Next
came the street-sweeper, who washed of
the blood and brains, and in little
while the event seemed quite forgotten.
1t did not even get into the principal
papers. An enterprising American jour
nal would have lived week on such a
social catastrophe, with infinite inven-
ton of ramance and pictorial illustra-
tions.
Luigi Micene, only son Of a distin-
guished provincial family, shoots him
self on the death of his betrothed, that
his body" as he wrote, "might repose
beside the idol of his heart;;" evidently
without any ideas as to union in a
future existence. Sad evidence of the
prevailing naturalization of the upper
classes, and, indeed, of all in Italy now;
for the lower are to be heard scofiing at
future retribution, and asserting that
when they die, "like dogs, that's the
end Of them. As feminine offset to
the above, young and beautiful sig
norma, after paying last visit to the
death-bed of her lover, goes out into the
street, fixes her eyes on the window of
his chamber, and with revolver
shoots herself through the heart.
Very impractical and un-American,
both As also the case Of the soldier
who blew out his brains because his
parents were remiss in writing to him.
Gotta, student, throws himself under
the wheels of railway train, after fail
ing in an examination. Augosto B., rs
years old, shoots himself for no other
reason than that he is desperately bored
with living. Edward Ferrari jumps
from window and breaks his neck be-
cause he has not money enough to marry,
whilst bride of II years, after ten days
experience of honeymoon, browns her
self in well from serre y at leaving her
home. Two Juvenile maidens, without
rhyme or reason Of any sort, take each
other by the hand, walk into canal
and drown themselves; a well-known in
diyidual kills himself because he thinks
he is too ugly to live; suicides from
chronic illness are not infrequent;
daughter of an eminent family, after
joking awhile with her companions goes
to her room and chloroforms herself,
leaving jocose note of adieu requesting
champagne for dinner in the event Of her
coming to. One of the most beautiful
and accomplished women of my ac-
quaintance was barely rescued at the last
moment from the effects of the poison,
only to emphatically protest against it,
declaring life in itself was hideous to
her, death he1 passion, and she would
succeed in spite Of all watching, in
cutting hers short. Within few days
a Polish lady, having lost her health and
means, poisoned herself, l believe, by
swallowing matches dissolved in wine,
which is a common method of self-de-
stftiotioii here.-fforrnc. CIR. N. i j.
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