The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-06-22

OF inc earlier Delmonico set, who took
qsath IN while celebrating his birthday.
ne ne swaiiowed thin. sharp piece OF oyster
felicitated himself shook hands with his
companions. ard went home to die with
an irremediablc and horrible decoration oil
the !utest!nes
And that viii recall the case OF the girl
reported two years ago who was struck
IN the eye by flying p.ecc Of s,rel from,
me elevated railway. II was no bigger
man this e N the word death. hut IN
iwenty-four hours il had produced .niiau,.
nation of the brain, and she died.
TRIVIAL THINGS CAUSE DEATH.
The late DIR. Beard compiled lis; OF
deaths from trivial causes, such as the
SLOW abrasion Of collar button, the
punrture OF Il hairpiu, the swallowing OF
q, piece of cork IN a glass of wine. the
pyrote1hn.c display. II may be added that
we decor him."lf died from the effects
OF blood poisoning occasioned by an ul-
ceratcd tooth which gave. him no alarm.
that he cut himself with the sharp edge
OF piece of vclum that he was llumtn
acng and died from the wound. hut that
is tame by the ; de of the well known
merchant III Pitishurg who in helping his
wiie to hang mirror slipped uron the
me step-lndder and severed his jugulai
YEN on The broken edge of the mirror as
ne iell liinumcrah.c cases of death are
recorded OF pcreons attempting to open a
box of sardnes or a hottie of wine
fioissart says the the venerable St.
T;oth.ns of brittany was killed in the
nut OF forester in Normandy while
drinking ack before the fire. \ splinter
shcN out of the il." and penetrated his
ntain through his eye. Iiu, we have at
puh'ture OF the brain through the eye by
p"rasol OF coursc, nature doesn', need
ae,onses when she can KIN so hard-hcadci
a man rs was AcschNlus hv ,irou,, ny a
n .
s ,,,',,, nous IN an age of hypodcrmic
- me bare hodkln of Hamlet
linR Pa. one Of the hloodest of Chlnn's
pniosophers. Is said TO have died Of In
itrtoh by wettng his fingers to turn
M hr leaves OF n poisoned volume.
ladies IN the days Of tho Borglas. who
managed TO plan death in the odors of
cci'tln nosesaNs which they gave Ia their
In a record Of crime made in 1855 10y
one fudwcN there is an account Of "A
Wushman who used postage stamps to
"Ntnte l-msrli ON his enemies. HIS plan
wa 10 infect the gum on "A stamp with
mo germs of deadly disease and III IN
writ" plausible letter to his enemy. in
emS.hs me injected stamp for an an
sMpr. relying upon the probability that
the unsuspaciine victim would apply 1t
Rnlwcll DOES no, furnish uH win tha re-
su'is Of ihis rather tincitnl story
NATURES METHODS SIMPLE.
II Is noticeable INT whenever man allies
himself with death to produce mor,uary
results h abandcns the simplicity of IA.
tiic methods Size usgs a can ui 4, c,,hs,i
salmon. the seed ci II RIPE, luscious orange,
II h'ile mote noaiinc IN the sun.h ne. Il III
Oh succulent, uuurruonc ham. the scratch
oi iaNori'e eat. the very SUNSHINE itself,
w lich she converts IRON IL bets son TO Il
cub to beat You down with when you l.,,s.
expect 1t.
one thinks of the gifted Ada Clare.
wounded in the nose NV a pet Ian dor
with which she was piayng, ana tnr,i
ny ne the horrible death from ny iro-
phobla
ON thinks of the poor artist Montrosc
walking into N. quicksau t., ON u moon
neht night Or his way to serrnnde h. :
lazy love. his llli,a, under his arm.
,'hr fr'heIil'.e rs !. cut.nant bob butcher
struck IN the face by a rattlcsna rs Ne
was climbing up "A steep Gin in search
OF fossils. and unable to defend himself
Tn" docs NOT have to 20 10 the great
events wh,n death hides away in all sun
Nsht and moonht paths and masquerade :
AT the supper tab!r. whore a secretary of
the treasury may suddenly stop and lu,n
liN.d and iig.d bcfor. the brilliant com
iaiy. ana IN" clergyman s.nks down int
silence before his congregation " tn tho
brncdict1on ouly half spoken, as was the
case no, i've weeks ago
l.amacaus, that Rhodan bowman who
went through tho irlecc lniies, an war to 10.
conquest. IS no more "A mysterious fGie
than the $udden end ne of PhiIl ps Brooki
in the zenith Of his power.
But after all II IS In the unsuspectcO
domain of happiness and vitality thai the
means of death are most terrible. What
can be more agonzng than the also of
that child playing in the harvest iieid and
lima ng stho iri-ta.ng ~es's of thc wild
grasses,sfp cough itself to death Ia sl' ic
Of all the resources or science? But SINH
larry We had the other case ci Il party Of
schoo.boys all entinc for some upknowii
reason a common Wild root tl.ai s. deaiils
ard another case of school girls, willie
T. ckirg autumn flowers taing u1.soncd
RiIl Poole. he once famous pre- fighter.
carried a bullet in his heart foi nearly a
week rec we'd in n molcc In StanwlN iiaii.
Nal cloou III. ~ the other II ana, dled 81
a cl.t of his own blood scarcely bigger
Dr. Blake Of Long Branch. died from The
sting OF common fly I'm his llp. iron,
which II malignant pustule Developed. and
tic Of dog which is still alive
cec Hobart who wrote book called
The Master Il tie Emotions" IS said 10
have died n a naroMysm OF lansh'cr oyer
book called Scenes During thf War IN the
Southwest" an account of an American
soldier who Won; into Mexico with Gen
eral Zachary Taylor and WAS nit in the
l0wsd without any other damage than
hat It corrod.d in his stomach and killed
him
forv # dsath. hut We suspect mat lhes"
were after ali but incidents. a ate lob
sior suppor. an omen window. :, dress Dat
on n hlzznr,r nirhl' havn p'aye a,,. morn
Nym Crlnklc.