The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25
Why They Did Not Love Life.

The published accounts of SOC sui
cides contain queer stories. 1t wilt
hardly be credited that a man would
kill himself because his mule died, but
a report from North Carolina in Octo-
Der says that "Caleb Hobbs committed
suicide on account OF the death of a
mule to which he was attached. The
mule died Friday, and the owner wept
over it until to-day, when he remark
ed that he could not live without his
mule, and mixing a lot of whisky and
it.. He was
through h heart alter MsCTTUUg phfu
visiting card the words: "My Fannie,
no man has ever died for you a
small market gardener in Illinois hung
himself because hls corn was rOtting in
the ground. Another Illinois man
shutf1ed off this mortal coil because he
had lost his best boy and best COW, and
did MT want to live any longer. A
superstitious merchant in New York
cut his throat because a customer sent
him a letter asking for the latest quota
tions in looking glasses. An extrava-
CANT 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 clos
er, and not send her any more money,
as he was DESTROYS of her becoming
more econimical in her ways. A Mis-
souri, father was overcome with shame
on learning that his son had stolen u
watch, and ended his woe by a dose OF
poison.
An nhtn ~ man It.r1 IN,
self because his CLARA" had Tilted him
in the following cruel style:
You may say I am perfection,
Say you love to see me smile,
You may tell me that you love me,
Though you're Testing all the while;
You may whisper LOVING pleadings,
Woo me with n gentle sigh,
But your VOWS like chan Will scatter
Nounl forget mt by and by.
A New Jersey inventor devised a
cOrn-hnsker, which was a failure
because it only worked satisfactorily
on large ears; therefore he suicided.
A San Francisco hunchback left word
behind him that blood rushed to his
head, which seemed to be shrinking
through his shoulders, and his bones
were tangled one with the other rem
dering him wild with pain. The
force Of example is remarkable; a st.
Louis shoemaker shot himself because
he lived within a block of a shoemaker
who severed his jugular vein, and this
deed proved upon his mind. A sailor
tied a rope about his neck and
leaped overheard. His body was
lowed into port before being discover
ed. a Vermont widow hung herself
with n skein of yarn. a Nirginian
made four attempts ia take his life,
and finally committed suicide bv
shooting himself through the head
with u shotgun. The muZzle of the
weapon was placed against his right
eye and discharged by a string fasten-
ed to the trigger aud tied around "a toe
of the right foot. A Pennsylvania
wheelwright used a Ratchet, a knife
and a rope. With the Ratchet he
struck himself three times on the back
of the head, with the knife he severed
his windpipe, but missed the iugular
vein, and with the rope he strangled
himself. An Illinois mechanic hung
himself to II ladder in the bell tower
OF n church and was discovered bv a
frightened sexton. a Californian
spread a blanket on the floor by the
side of his bed, tied a small rope
round his neck so as TO draw through
the loop, and tying the other end
around the top of the bed post, less
than two feet above the floor, lay
down with his right arm under his
head, and strangied TO death.
Public benelactors are not alone confined to
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