The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-21
REMARKABLE SUICIDES.

Homer is said to have hanged himself
because he could not solve the 'fsherman's
riddle"
Philip Strozzi billed himself lest the
rack should tear from him the secret Of .
conspiracy. And such things are now hap
| peninG in Russia.
Tbs Rev. Dir. H, rector Of a parish
near Dublin, preached sermon on the
shOrtness Of life, and Immediately there
after hanged himself in his parlor.
jeremiah Clark, organist of ST. PauTs, en-
tered field intending to either hang or
| drown himself He tossed penny to de-
eide. 1t stuck sideways in the mud Mr..
Clark went home and shot himself
Zsno, the founder Of the Stoics, set his
followers precious example. At the age
of 90 he fell aad put his thumb out of
joint. This was hint to him that he had
lived long enough, SO he went home and
hanged himself.
Sir Richard Crofts failed to save the life
Of the Princess Charlotte. 1t preyed upon
him so that one night, while attendingth
wife Of brother physician. he went into
the next room and discharged two pistol
shots into his head.
Every one has read of Vatel, the cook on
one OF the great French estates, who killed
himself with sword because the fish ar
rived too late for dinner. He was a con-
scientious cook-an honor to a profession
that could i'll afford to lose him.
At the battle Of Ross in Ireland young
subaltern desperately wounded was sur
rounded by his comrades. Fly, or you will
be captured, " he urged them. They would
not He drew his own pistol and killed
himself. His motive was not selfish one.
In 1870 british officer tried to shoot
himself in Hyde park. A common laborer
wrenched the pistol from him. The officer
drew his sword The laborer opened his
arms and said: 'ILill me if you like; wish
to die IS much as you Go, but would be
ashamed to Kill myself"
An English subalteTn described for the
sake of science his sensations in suffccating
for one hour and five minutes A French
man dug trench and starved himself to
death in the same cause. Thesixteenth day
he ceased writing; the seventeenth he was
found; the eighteenth he died.
Col. Philip MordaUnt, relative of the
Earl of Peterborough, deserves a place
among immortal idiots. He had everything
the world could give, yet he wrote this and
died: Life has given me a headache, and
want a good church yard sleep to set me
right, as my soul is tired of my body"
What q picture in the annals Of chivalry
is that Of the old Bishop Of Scissors
Jacques du Chastel-who refused to retreat |
with Louis TX from Africa The warrior
prelate put his lance in rest and charged an
army Of his foes. They cut him into mince-
meat. But he was satisfied, for he had a |
perfect banquet of glory.
It was only in 1923 that the shocking old |
"Cross roads Iaw'' was abrogated in Eng !
land. There is a story, and it is beautiful |
if only q legend, that near Boston, in Ian
cashire, a stake driven through a suicides /
body grew into a hawthorn tree, which, |
through the long years, dropped its plying !
blossoms over the dishonored grave.
A German, trying to emulatean English |
man who Ieaped into Vesuvius, dove into e |
furnace. But that was comparatively COM /
mOnplace. A FronchmRn, not to be out
done, tied himself to an enormous rocket |
and blew himself to bits in a blaze Of |
glory. There is something characteristically !
French in this pyrotechnical end.-Chicago
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