Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-14
These Did Not Love Life.

An Oregon youth, aged 10 years,
loved his cousin and shot himself
through the heart after inscribing on
visiting card the words: My Fannie,
no man ever died for yo1." A small
market gardener in Illinois hung him
self because his corn was rotting IN the
ground. Another Illinois man shufied
off this mortal coil because he had lost
his best boy and best COW, and didn't
want to live any longer. A supersti-
tious merchant in New York cut his
throat because a customer sent him
letter asking for the latest quotations
in looking glass. An extravaganza wife
of a poor Colorado doctor swallowed
arsenic because her lenient father, who
had supplied her with money for many
years, had resolved to draw the string
of his money-bag closer and not send
her any more money, as he was de-
sirous Of her becoming more economical
in her ways. A Missouri father was
overcome with shame on learning that
his son had stolen watch, and ended
his woe by dose of poison.
A New Jersey inventor devised
corn-husker, which was failure be-
cause it only worked satisfactorily on
large ears; therefore he suicided. A
San Francisco hunchback left word be-
hind him that blood rushed to his head,
which seemed to be shrinking through
his shoulders, and that his bones were
tangled one with another, rendering
him wild with pain. The force of ex-
ample is often remarkable; ST. Louis
shoemaker shot himself because he lived
within block of a shoemaker who sew
cred his jugular vein, and this deed
preyed on his mind. A sailor tied
rope about his neck and leaped over
board; his body was towed into port
before being discovered. A Vermont
widow hung herself with a skein o.
yarn. A Virginian made four attempts
to take his life, and finally committed
suicide by. shooting himself through the
head with shotgun. The muzzle OF
the weapon was placed against his right
eye, and discharged by string fastened
to the trigger and tied around toe OF
the right foot. A Pennsylvania wheel
wright used Ratchet, knife and a
rope. With the Ratchet he struck him
self three times on the back of the head,
with the knife he severed his windpipe,
but missed the jugular vein, and with
the rope he strangled himself. An Hi
nois mechanic hung himself to ladder
in the bell-tower of church, and was
discovered by frightened sexton. A
Californian spread blanket on the
floor by the side of his bed, tied small
rope around his neck so as to draw
through loop, and tying the other end
around the top of the bed-post, less
than two feet above the floor, had lain
down with his right arm under his
head, and strangled to death. An Iowa
farmer cut his wrists with plane, and
afterwards hung himself to fence five
feet high. The distance was so short
that in order to produce death he was
obliged to draw his knees up even with
his eyes, and hold them there with his
elbows. An old man of so years, living
in Western New York, foretold the day
Of his death, and to fulfill his predic-
ton, cut his throat from ear to ear with
razor which he held in one hand, and
which he had tied with a string so it
could not move when doing the deed.
A California powder-maker made his
exit with giant-powder, and was blown
to shreds. Chronicle.