The Halifax Comet. — 1894-02-17 (Halifax, West Yorkshire, England)

STRANGE SUICIDES.  .....................  NDER the above heading we. comprehend suicides by novel met as well as suicides i from strange or ridiculous -Motives. the. The most remarkable suicidee. ,stn- of ancient times was that of 4'.F4llOSOPler ErapedoCleS. He: t —ollght -) • death might liot Le -1,.._.a Rog, and that his. ter i'4l°Vll) threw himself into the ~,,°%kount Etna. The fact was not vfli "e't until some short time afterwards, itilti one of ti l. his sandals was thrown up. t:, ft has been paralleled in modern hiln;',,,t in 1834 an English lord threw ...env e't into the crater of Mount Vesuvius. .. stleks u' the founder of the sect of Stoics, \No, ,to have acted up to the principles goia"l-le professed. It is said that as he was of 11911 t of his .school one day, at the age a 411-4etY'sight, he fell down and Put h ger Ont f•• A h ° Joint. When he reached home _ foral,klged. hiraself ; but we are not in bf bi,'Lwhether or not it was in consequevoe ka;rli'a7g a broken finger. Another ren 4piellrbie suicide was that of the Roma %Iv tie,,who killed him.self 'because he had lqiiia':.°,l)oo remaining to him out of a large tint 4". • itEtte s,'.llart who felt himself impelled to 4 lv,aa ' ih,aut e Philosopher spoken of above, but _ Ito a oto travel so far, threw himself A I;sroelting furnace. ohly 11%irs for rettelmian with an unconquerable 'notoriety devised a plan such as 14sten 4 Prenchman could devise. He. blevri himself to an enormous rocket, and Ntriot44,43lf up. Vatel, a cook and corn Sl4%rd i.°4.' the last mentioned, plunged his Zajl in.',.'? his body because fish had not arter;,:'llle for dinner. A Venetian shoeed Matte() Lovat, once, in a fit of i°4:4,lll,Quoraania, crucified himself in a The °"llious manner. Ilki,t'e existed in Paris some years ago a 4 I.llillhioll went bythe name of the Friends 44d t t4q"s• It consisted of twelve members, b: vote cast annually to decide which ttilN.C.,,-84ould commit suicide next in the 0 itil,;'lsf his fellow-members. The numr7l. b .437 g remained at twelve, a new mem-144t0 t11.%110f e,lected immediately after the „wit° fated one. The society kle a tZtor many years and there was , ka 11 or admission to membership. 41.4 (theleant was to prove that. he. was a I)ll4tiet, 11°11r, that he had experienced the l'snti, q "'t mankind the ingratitude of a "5 La the falsehood of a Nvije, ; 4 fi-mkt felt f 041 a._ o,r and that Years an irreme la ~ le vacuity d t ii qa, ou distaste of life. te `ger '3ll II ey oe Ol lent a friend his manuscript . -4 1141 Suicide," and so impressed was 14:Ni 'l. Vith the writer's argument, that ,(I)aaitely siseifafter returning the work he NiA kkava Vtclisd, 1 l'ead of a young lady C.tetV, "ii. who so head over Paine's "Age of ~ til . L suicilLollo, we believe it. does not Ikklt lettl de) that she alsailled herel . lillti)t4'""-' elNuence of neither of these IN4P,,''YEtq so Persuasive as that of the • tit% '''e Phil convinced a 4 4144(14,4 ?s°Plier who so con ilti q%A es, oefore whom he was lecturing, 'vautages of suicide, that a great tttti it's.f them went straightway and corn poet,  If you are  0.43, _ tr ki *W• *1 411 sx. 4 4\ k >— to V". it 4 . ~.„0:1,