Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-31

doubt engage her mornings. To-day she will have to answer another charge of libel on M.
 Riviere. Whatever may be said of some people who talk big and loud, they often do a great deal of good The new lunacy law amendment bill might very we'll be called now the Weldon act as the new criminal law amendment bill will ever be known as Steads act. It may be sad to have to say so, but legislators seldom listen to quiet talk. The shipping bill, passed few years ago to prevent ship owners from sending to sea unseaworthy vessels, would not have passed if MT. Samuel Plimsoll, in a fit of passion in Parliament, had not called the opponents of his bill s'criminal villains"
 The language was not parliamentary but it
 aroused the nation from it's indifference on
 the subject and the bill passed
 A crazy Briton belonging to the Suicide
 club" of which I did not know the exist
 ence, has published in the Pall Mall Gazette
 the sensations of hanging. He has actually
 tried it before the members of the club. It
 will be a pity if his narrative has the effect
 of diminishing the wholesome terror which
 the rope has hitherto inspired, and I fear it
 may induce some silly people to try hanging
 as substitute for opium. At first there was
 a great jerk and he felt violent pain in his
 neck; but after he lost unconsciousness the
 proceedings became quite pleasant: "He
 seemed to be transported into 8 new world,
 more beautiful than anything imagined by the poets. He was swimming, he thought,
 in a sea of oil. The feeling was exquisitely
 delicious. As he swan easily and without
 effort through the liquid mass he noticed
 afar off an island of the most glorious eme raid green in color. The sea kept every in stant changing it's hue. At one moment it
 was mass of gold as though the sun were
 shinging brilliantly on it. The next instant it was vivid blood-red; but there was noth- ing terrible or disgusting in this new color.
 oa{ oIo fo oil rIoI fIn
 rainbow, yellow and red being the predomi-
 nant tint. He got nearer and nearer to the island. As he approached it there sprang out suddenly from the ground great num-
 Der of people whose faces seemed known to
 him. At last he reached the land. Then a magnificent chorus of voices, human and those of birds, burst forth. He closed his eyes in ecstacy. He foated calmly on to the shore, and lay child in it's cradle slightly weakened from the enervating effect of the oily matter in which he had been swimming At last he opened his eyes. The magic charm was at once dispelled The divine harmony ceased. The faces were still peer ing at him with an expression of eager cu- riosity, but he perceived that they belonged to the members of the club" The pain in his neck was great, it appeared, but he was now in entire possession of his senses. His friends cut him down and he was able to tell them at once his experiences AL though he drew a charming picture of the bliss which he felt, no other member would try his experiment. His look was quite ghastly. To the best of my belief this lu- natic is still at large.
 Politicians frequently complain of nisrep- resentations, but no one in this country, says the Globe, has yet gone so far as to spread a report that his opponent is dead, 'having been poisoued by mushrooms" This has happened to M. Chevalard, a candidate for the department of the Loire, in France. He writes that he is quite well and in the most Christian spirit suggests that his adversaries are quite capable of making away with him if they had the chance. MAX O'RELL.