The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-15
Oh Tiles OF SUICIDE.
vethods That People Who Want to
Die Prefer.

PREF MorSeiH or lurlo University J5IS Us
,bat drunkards an pc 1ple who ara tired of
I;fc and worn out with its mi cries take to
tenrinc; those to who n family misfortunes
bove made life uncomfortable choose drown
inc 1t is perhaps not so wonderful that
crossed or joal US lavers should resort 10
poison or the revolver. P,otestants a
more apt to f1yto s'licrde THAI Catholics,
ITho again, are less iml atient Of life than
Ievs inclined as that race is to mental
alteration.
Another writer on this subject has OBJ
sawed that a man will, by preference hang
himself. and a woman drown her elf, and
aS a national popularity. it may be men
fiaI1ed that the pc 'centage of those who Sc
lect sharp instruments as a means OF death
Is so great in Engla at it may be said
that the English pc PIE are the greatest
t!cut roat." in Egrope.
MANY persons no had never before dis
,,Iave great original V have distinguished
the nsAlveS bv inyen iuy novel forms OF
sniclde. We have all heard OF the Roman
lady who swa lowed red-hot Goals; the
foreign gentleman who put an end t. him
self with a small private gulllo 9 also &C
ouired posthu nous reacwn. Bat perhaps
the most original, though unsuccessful,
would-b be suicide on record is le Young
lady who knel, down. like votary of Jug
cgruaut, in front OF an ounibus A young
lady deliberately went in front of the
no SEES of an omnibus and knelt down." az
cording to a policeman: who observed her
singular cc-tiues On being rescued, she
stated that ''she wa ted to be killei:" but
she might have selected some method a
once less prosaic and less original of Rrati-
fvine her desire. Many hanson cabnen
would have executed the business without
even beng requested to do 81.
In fiery furnace an ir IN. worker, at Low
> Ell
worknen saw him pitch himself ne dong
into the flames Of a raging furnace, in
WHICH, no doubt. be was, tefore many m
n1epts had elapsad, utterly CONSUMED. The
natural question is, WHY did he do it}
Probably he could not tell the reason him
self, if he were alive
A pleasant way Of quitting the world was
that adopted by Paris al .gr settle, who
e led her small bedroom with Il ,wers, I'd
when her mother went to ca b + in the
morning she fourd he's dead. TINS young
creature understood vegetable physiology
and chemistry tficieaUly to be able to
adapt them to ia al ends.
At Piym nth ma named jolly tied his
feet and hands together and then row
himself into the water, having previously
announced his int ton of committing
suici lie int a particular way.
November is enc ally believed to be the
month of suicides. 1t is ce tainly meIan-
choly m1nth. AS Ton Hoo says:
No warmth. no cheerfulness, no healthtul ease,
No comfortab, feel in any me uber-
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, 10 bees
No fruits no flowers, no leaves. no birds
-.....' .... November.
But Prof Marselli, who has made special
study of this subject, says it is not true that
suicide is more frequeat "in damp, cloudy
and dark weather, such as helps the melan-
Choly pasSlo as" August Is the month in
which the gre a est nu nbsr of suicides takes
place in Paris, 10j Gee lrring in that month
IS against Il in February, the sla kest
mo tn. Last year July was the licidal
month in Paris, and 1t is considered a note
worthy fact that the suicides have increased
since the establishment of the fe5e on the
4 b of that month.
In America, 1.-THE fiowery month of June
is tie tavorite time, the three months Of
summer showing 2,3oS suicides, as against
1,736 in wiuter.
Suicide is so common in London that it
does not excite public feeling; there is so
much mi>eTy in a great metropolis that it
is only wonderful that human beings can
endure it a all. S ne men and women
plunge in the river l order to arrest at
te ton to the condition Of their families.
Policeman" said respectably-ireSs I'd
man, 'wny did you not let me do ite
have a wife nd eight children. | went
ing at her ueedlework, and the children cry
ing for bread. coul see nothing in front
of me but death.
To his wife ne had written:
My dear lit wife, we ust part. But
wherel At the wo"khouse catel No, little
darling, till death do us part was the
p omise we made, and death is the kindest
and St"
Fortunately, he was seized before di APP
pearl for the last time, and ublic ty
given 10 the case by the newspapers re-
suited in upwa d 41i0 being forwarde to
Tie mansion houe fer the benefit of the
M ms wife and family.
ma ure l. tended me to be a man; fate
made me &C err" wer the words wriGt n
on piece of paper left by young French
man VIII, hal b own his b.. n, Ut Nth a
pistol. That young man bad mistaken his
calling; but it would be serious ting for
society If all grocers were to think and act
IL like ma ner
spice OF humor attaches TO the valedic.
tory address of Paris cahman, who stl a l.
gled himself. He wrote: II ave this
W ri becausss it pl ases me to do so.
nave lad enough OF driving people ab ut
thls word. / am goi lg 10 see il in the
other wor d people dive dffere thy. sAil
that l ask is tnat no fuss be mad about me- y
AND with the view of ilsur .ng that the let
ter should not go astray, he wrote upon the
envelope. ITO Any Ole." One would like
to have he reflection Of Mr.. Weller, senior,
upon this untoward event. Bat PROBABLY
DE would conclude that ths Pa ris cabman
came under the sane headi as Cam oer-
wei coachmen, "ssapd didn't cunt.
1 am no longer able sup orr my par
ehts, was the reason ASSIGNED by an octo-
genarisn in Buda-Pesth, for attemi ting to
co unit suicide, This mans name was
Janos Meryessi. He had for the last few
years been beggar, and was 81 years Old
ms 1Ather and mother weressai to be ag d
ITO and ITO respectively. Merry essi wa
rescued by Hungarian member of parl a
meat as he was about to jump into the
danube off the suspension bridge. His
tUory has since bee investigated by tue
police and declared to true.
The Stafford tragedy was unique in the
annals of suicide. For n mother, a mad
or w1olly mad with grief and misery, &
murde. her children and then kill herself, /,
NOT an event without precedent. But for
iather, who appered to lis neighbors, 81
BIS intlmates. and to the doctor who ex
anlned his brain after his death, to bs en-
urely sane, co slaughter his whole family
VIE and six child en- one Of them a we'll
grown lad-to do this out of Affection, and
Win the most anxious avoidance OF any
pain or violence, and the ], w:th nIsv ct ms
just dead, to write letter after letter ex
"a ming his mo ives d mis- means, tc
sratt sensible will, TO pass out am ng his
trends IN order to S cure witne S to the
document, and then return to the charue