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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-04-19 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE GLOR' OF A CHINAMAN IS HIS PIGTAIL. It is curious that  what at first was the token of Chinese aubjugation at the bands of the Tartars, the pigtail has now become the pride and glory of the race. Cut 01l the queue of a Celeetial, and suicide is the only honourable course open to him. If he is specially term ions of life, holm er, he may don a tabs, article until his hair hoe grown again. While at work the coolies wear their pigtails wound up on the back of their Leads . but when they have occasion to present themselves before you, it is invariably unwound. For a Chinaman to appear in your presence with his pigtail in a knot would be eluiyalent to your entering a drawing-room with a hat on and your trousers tucked in your boots  A. lourto physican informed a pretty lady patient, who wm suffering from chronic sore thrwit, that the only cure for it was a beard. "Theta of no interest to me," she replied ; "I've got no beard:' "True," he replied gallantly, "bet you can me mine as often as you want to." They were married a few months later.  —;7lllevc---B—Leas misery" has been defined to be haying a cigar and having nothing to light It with. TER INFLUENCE OF TUB Slat.Nrr.---lor a few pence we can purchase a piece of magnetised Wel, and by its help we can learn some very interesting things about it. We will Lay it upon a table, and above it place half a shest of smooth writing paper, supported on each side by pieces of firewood of the same thickness as the magnet. A pennyworth of iron filings will corns pieta the apparatus re aired. Scattering these iron filinge over the paper so Moo lightly cover it, we shall soon aee, particularly if, to aid the process, we gently tap the paper, that the various atoms of iron are arranging them• selves in symmetrical curves of great beauty. The two poles are distinctly marked by the greater accumulation of filings over them, and from them proceed splendid feather-like lines which embrace and interlace with one another in a most curious manner. In the whole range of physical experiment there is nothing more beautiful, /oohing to the simple means employed, than these feathery diagram; of an invisible force and we tract that our readers will not be content with mere verbal description, which can do such scant lattice to the reality, hut will produce the curves for themselves. We see here clearly defined the marvellous Influence which the magnet exerts upon the neighbourhood around it— an inliorn, e which by some mysterious power will penetrate all kinds of obstacles. We can put this to practical proof by interpoaing between the magnet and the sheet of paper a board, a look, or even the human nand, when the curves ran he made visible all the same. We shall presently see how this strange force is taken advantage Of in the articulating telephone.—viewaft 41 . Lo x OF iNwrintm—lt has been observed, and there is a world of homely, even of legislative knowledge in the obxervation, that wherever you seen dower in a cottage garden, or a bird at the window, you may feel aure that the cottagers are better and wine than their neighbour..
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-01-26 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A RAILWAY  CARRIAGE.  At the Thames Police.court, London, William Stewart, a gentlemanly-looking man, was recently charged with attempting to commit euicide in a railway carriage on the Great Eastern Railway by shooting himself with a revolver. At half-past three o'clock in the evening a train from Fenchurch-street arrived at the Bow Railway Station, when Robert Barr, a porter, on going to one of the firstelaaa carriages, found the prisoner lying on a seat quite unconscious, a revolver lying alontreide him, four of the chambera being loaded and one or two discharged. Barr at once communicated with the stationmaster, who found that the prisoner had been wounded in the ehoulder. He procured a cab, and the prisoner waa conveyer' to the London Hospital. The prisoner was given into custody, but was unable to make any statement, as he was unconscious. A gentleman from the hospital having spoken to the nature of the wound, hir. Saunders committed the prisoner foe triaL  MR. THOMAS HANMER, the local honorary secretary of the Shipwrecked Mariners' did Society, recently attended at the office of Mr. John Herron, shipowner, Liverpool, to present on behalf of that society a silver medal and s cheque for £3 to Hugh M•Kee, late third officer of Mr. Herrou's ship Alumbagh, for bravery displayed by M'Kee in assisting in the rescue of nineteen men, being the entire crew of the British barque Csrnatic, while the latter ship sae in a disiressed condition in a terrine sea. Mr. Herron had also received a silver medal coda framed address from the Liverpool Shipwreck arid Humane Society, and these he iresented to Miners Several of the members of the Alumbaglis crew took part in the rescue, and awarda have been made to them, but not so far presented on account of the men being away from home. In these eases the awards consist DI medals and some varying from £2 to £4 each.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-03-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT DENTON. A determined attempt to commit suicide was made oa Saturday night last, on the river bridge in Stockport•road, which dividea amton from Reedbury, by a omit named John Smith 32 years of age, who inn moulder, of Stai ybridge. It appears that Smith firer out his throat and then threw himself from the bridge into a field below, a distanoe of about 2S feet, and afterwards waded through the river, and ten got on the road again where he was found at about a quarter to eleven by a boy named Joseph Malpas, who at once went for a esistance The man woe removed , td the hence of Mr. William Malpao, Ardern Arose 1 which is close by, where every attention was given I to him, mei n mess,nger tea. pro.aptly despatched I fur Dr. Smith, of Dredbury.who,however, retuned to I attend. They then sent forDr.Cbambero, of Denton, I who at once went and dreised the wound. He wao I removed to the Stockport Infirmary on Monday and up to the time of going to press was progress, ing favourably. The manse of the rash act, by all aceounto, to that he liao been out of employment since the end of last year, and was in a despond- : lug daze of mind. He new states that be is very sorry for what lie has thine, It is expeoted he will nave sufficiently recovered in about ten days so as , to be brought up at the Stock county court. The place where he threw himself (coin the bridge was tinted by crowds of Feople during the whole of Sunday.  RUSSELL SCOTT MEMORIAL SCHOOLS, DENToa.—The report of the examinati m con• dueled by Her Maj,sty's Inspector of Schools, (The Rev. John Lomax, MLA,) has just been received from the Education Dopartinent, and will couiSrm the high character already ens joyed by these &Ironic Of the kilned Department, in which no fewer than 97 per cent of the children passed their examination with credit, toe Inspector reports ...rho tote and discipline are excellent, and the instruction is remarkanly intelligent and successful." The hightest payment which can be earned for singing. needlework, and the class subjects of English and Geography haw been awarded, and what is especially satisfactory, the school has received the "excellent merit grant." Toe highest grant is made in respect of (I) organisation, dincipline and moral training, (2,) the inielligence employed in instruction; and (3,) the n,ral quality of the work,—ln the Intents' Department equally good results have been obtained, and the highest grant poexible to as in his awarded. Toe Inspector reports LlSUB:—“llaviug regard to exoelleot discipline is this Department, and ti the very great 0010 that has beets bestowed upon the In structiou, as sell as to the rant, that the School has but eecently been e,tablotne.t, 1 think that the merit mark ',ELoelleut" may twisouably be &minted.  SelteicE et'
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-11-01 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER AT EIORTOIL—AMaut seven o'clock on Saturday evening, Frank Longue a traveller in the employ of I. and W. Lees, hat manufacturers, Stockport 0001* misted suicide by cutting his throat, in the back yard of a dwelling house in Nellie-street, Gorton. He had a razor in his right hand and a razor cam in his left hand. It appears that the death of hie wife which took place some time ago, preyed upon hialmind, and he was very distressed in conaequence and he was heard to remark that he would join his wife soon. The deceased leaves a family of sin children, the eldest being twelve years of age, and it is feared they are unprovided for. An incovet was held at the Junction Hotel, Hyde-road, Gorton, on Tuesday afternoon on the deceased. From the evidence given by Mrs. trnsworth, of 7, Nellie-street, Gorton, it appears that on Saturday evening, whilst sitting in the house, she heard moans in the rear of the premises. She sent her son for a neighbonr, who went into the bask yard, where she found a man lying on the grotmd. Thinking he was drank they sent for a police. constable, who on his arrival found that the man was lying in a pool of blood, with a razor in his hand, life being extinct. Through papers found in his poeaession the body was identified. The deceased was a traveller in the employ of Mears. T. aod W. Lees, of Stockport. He left home on Saturday afternoon, stating that he was going to see his medical man, and was not seen alive again by his relative.. About three weeks ago he lost bin wife, and aince that time he has been very strange in his conduct. The jury 'attuned a ser• diet of "Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity."  "
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-09-13 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDE OF AN ACTOR.  Mr. W. Carter, coroner, has held an inquest at the County-terrace Tavern, New Kent road, London, on the body of Anthony Kendall Wyke, 42, art actor, reaiding at the Falatinate, Gurney-street, New Kent-road, who committed suicide by drinking a quantity of carbolic acid. May Murdoch Blake Wyke, wife of the deceased, deposed to the deceased having been under medical treatment fore year and a hall, and to his having had no engagement for the lost three years. This resulted in the family being ha great straits, and the worry at last affected deceased's brain. He scarcely slept for weeks together, and latterly had several times said that the wonble was more than he could stand ; he would have to get out of it. 'Witness did not think he would really kill himself, bet feared their pecuniary circumstances were driving him mad. On the previous Friday he and she went out a little way to accompany o friend, and the demand began raying and shouting, and wringing his hands in the wildest manner, and this continued during the night. At an early hour on the Saturday morning he made his way to the kitchen and poured some carbolic acid into a glass and drank it off and than became insensible. By the Coroner: He knew where the cube ic said was. It had beea tent previously by the landlord for scouring their apartments out witn. It had no laid l on it. He had not been to bed all night, but she rover thought he was in any danger of fakirs,' his life or she would has kept closer, watch on him. Mr. J. J. Phelan, surgeon,deposed to being summoned to attend the decanted, wino expir ed half an hour after he arrived. He eaw the glass (produced) and found the deceased had swallowid carbolic acid, which wasa very powerful irritant and poison. The deceased had been under his carton and at for ei,hteen months, and witness knew that he was suffering front worry chiefly, and considered that the not was the result of mental derangement. Mr. Frederick Hawley, solicitor, a brother-in.law of the deeeneed, also gave evidence showing that his mind had given way umber his 'Mar or,tu cc The Coroner, in summing np, said he hal had lime al oases lately of suicide by carbolic acid, and strongly commented on the ease with which all sorts of poLou could he obtained. ghe jury returned a verdict of "Suicide meets: derangement,"and thought a rider ought to be added dealing with the sale of poisons. The Coroner It is perfectly i seless, and lam utterly DoWel, lees to help you lathe matter.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-11-08 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SHOCKING SHICIDE.-111r. J. G. Hilton, &whitest and surveyor, has committed suicide at his office, N 0.3, Victoria-street, Westminster, London, by shooting himself through the heart with an old-fashioned Lint pistol. He had recently been much worried by overwork, and it is supposed that in a moment of mental aberration be destroyed himself. ST Portadown an indignation meeting has , been held, and resolutions passel condemning the authorities for failing to provide the necessary protection oath, ' meeting in the Town flail on the previous Wednesday I night. the meeting was held in the yard of 51r. Shemmel, it being the only place obtainable. One man raised a dissenting voice and was ejected. The yard W. surrounded by police and military daring the bolding of the meeting. Great excitement prevailed, but no disturbance occurred. A T the :,,heffteld County Court a breach of promise case has just been tried before a jury in whi, It damages were laid at £lOO. The plaintiff is a domestic servant, The defendant, a dealer in suet, courted her for some months, the marriago was fixed, and ths plaintiff. gave up her situation. After parting with him one night she did not see or hear of him again till she saw his marriage in the papers. The jury awarded he £75 damages, and the indge oertifferf fur cotta.  How TO Avow THE /HMATOCS EFFECTS OF Prior. lANTS.-- Experience shows that mild ales, port wine, dark aberriea, sweet champagne, liqueurs and brandy are Eli eery apt to disagree, while light wines, and gin or whisky largely diluted with soda-water, will be fond the least objectionable. PRO'S FRUIT SALT is pects liarly adapted for any constitutional weakness of the liver-, It possesses the power of reparation when digestion has been disturbed or lost, and places the invalid on the right track to health.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-09-20 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CHRONICLE BUILDINGS, FLEET ST.,LONDON,Ets _  Sni-)ITKMG TRAtiEDY Al HOMENIUN,  The inhabitants in the neig ho rhood Or liallanceroad, Homerton, London, were recently alarmed by terrible cries proceeding from No. 2, in that road, which were no loud and continued that it was deemed necessary to s 'ninon the police to the local ty. Police-cOnstable Cree.l, Nis N, upon his arrival, took into custody Sam: el Stockham, V e resident or the house, for throwing his child, Amy Elirabeth, aged one year and nine months, on a fire which was burning In one of the rooms. Another officer found that the wife of the prisoner (Mrs. E. A. Stockham) bad been stabbed in the left breast, and an infant, aged two days, was suffering from a word on the head. Mrs. Stockham informed the officer that her husband had thrown the child Amy on the fire in the bedroom. He had also inflicted the wound upon her by stabbing her with a table-knife, and then he snatched the youngest child out of the bed and threw it violently on the floor. Her husband, who was in a very excited state, went into the back bed-room, which was entered by a door leading from the one in which the first part of the tragedy was enacted, and attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself. In order to do this he had procured a piece of clothee-line about four yards in length and made a loop at one end, which he placed round the handle of the door, drawing the cord over the top. These preparations were witneseol by his wife with the utmost consternation, and she cried loudly for help. Her husband having completed his preparations, had actually suspended himself by the rope before help arrived. The terrible shrieks of his wife had the effect of rousing the neighbourhood, and Mr. Tame. Holmes, of Assett-road, Homerton, arrived just in time to cut the unfortunate man down before life was extinct. Police-constable Creed entered the house Immediately afterwards, and took him into custody. Dr. White, of Portland-I,lov, was called to the policestation at Hackney to examine the prisoner, and he certified that he was euffering from melancholia, and advised his removal to the Hackney infirmary in custody of Police-constable Cuddy. The same medical gentleman also attended to the wife of the prisoner, who was euffering from an incised wooed on her left breast, and the infant was suffering from bruises on the side and back of the head. The other °Gild, Amy Stockham, was examined by Dr. Aveling, divisional eurgeon, awl he advised her immediate removal to the Hackney infirmary, which was done. She was suffering from burns eta serious character on various parta of the bead, hands, and body. The prisoner was subeenuently taken before • magistrate and remanded.  ENAVANTnIiIL
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-11-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SOURCE OF MAITOMETB INSEIRATION.—The the money ! —THE Ts.; TylonsAND Immoral" he conviction of being inspired of God was not retched by said. klahomet till after a protracted trial of mental throm. fumbled in vain for my weapon. It bad been in the At times the distress was so great rie even to suggest pocket of my coat—in the pocket next to the beautiful escape by suicide. There were periods at which the lady. excitement took the shape of a tram -or vision. Of " Here it Is," came her sweet voice, these we know but little. Some Christian writers have I looked towards her, and to my utter ama-ement and described them as epileptic eel urea, and have connected horror, there she stood; between me and the coach-door, them with the symptoms noticed in his childhood. Such with my pistol, which she had skilfully abstracted from swoons or reveries are said sometime, to have preceded my pocket, pointed straight towards my heart. I the "descent of inspiration " even in later life. What "Hood over the money !" continued the ailvery voice, the nature of these eestacies we it is difficult to con"or you are a dead man." lecture. It will suffice to let tradition speak for itself, Here wan a terrible—a sudden ours for my foolish and leave the reader to draw his own conclusions conceit. "At the moment of iffipiration iso the I understood it all now tradition runs) at. iety pressed upon the Prophet, and The disguised man and the woman were not strangers his countenance beau. troubled. Sweat dropped mm to each other they were husband and wife, partners in his forehead, and he would fall to the ground ats in a crime, belonging to the gang of burglars which bad lately trance. ' inspiration,' he mid, cometh to me in two infested many parts of the St de. I woes. At times Gabriel speaketh the word unto moot Between "two fires," as it were, with a pistol pointed one man speaketh to another, and this is easy. At other j at me on each side—my retreat by way of the coach-door times it is like the ringing of a bell, it penetrateth my cut off-- will not deny that I was much alarmed, heart and rendeth me: oat this allicteth me the most.' For an instant it seemed as if the courage which I hpi In later life he would point to his grey hairs and expected would support me under any circumstances was my that they were the wintering effect of the curlew about to desert me. I terrific suras."—Mahomet and Mum, by Sir Wiliam By a atrong exertion of the will, however,! recovered Jim, my eel f-poseeasion. A
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-07-11 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDES IN AUSTRIA.  Several cases of suicides in Austria are reported by a Vienna correspondent. In one instance, a cadet aged 20, living in barracks in Vienna, put the muzzle of his gun to his chin, and, pulling the trigger, died instantly. Another case is that of an artillery lieutenant at Cattaro, who blew himself to pieces by firing a large cannon against himself in a ratheringenious manner. In a third case a young man and a girl jumped into the Danube together. A fourth suicide was that of a sculptor, who hanged himself. These by no means exhaust one day's list of tragedies. At Prague, two young lovers, aged respectively 16 and 15, fastened themselves together with a rope, and then jumped into the Moldau. At Pesth, a fashionable master tailor ended his troubles by hanging himself to a bedpost, while a waitress at Braun shot herself with a revolver. A son of a rich Vienna merchant, aged 21, and a clerk also took their lives with revolvers. The latter gives as his reason Ins inability to support his parents owing to the smallness of his salary, while the other was the victim of a so-called American duel.  THE German Emperor has presented to the Sultan of Turkey a fine team of four hdrses. They will be taken to Constantinople by General Von Hobe Pasha, Master of the Horse to the Sultan. The General has been for some time in Germany purchasing horses for the Imperial Stud in Constantinople. The financial situation of Greece has become very bad. The shares of the National Bank, which a few months ago stood at 4100 f., have fallen to 3600 f. The customs receipts for the first four months of 1885 amounted to 6,351,282 f.. being 1,885,782 f. less than in the corresponding period of 1884. A Errartra erected to the memory of the late Mr. George Wingfield Digby, of Sherborne Castle, at a cost of £l4OO, has been unveiled at Sherborne, in front of the Grand Abbey, by Sir Richard Glyn. Mr. J. K. Digby, on behalf of the family, expressed their thanks for and appreciation of the memorial.  AN important scheme of postal acceleration affecting all parts of the United Kingdom has been adopted. Letters posted in the Metropolitan district up to seven o'clock p.m. will henceforth be delivered in the course of the same evening.  Now READY, Part 1, price 64., of the New Serial Issue e The  Fautily Physician. A Manual of Domestic Medicine. By EMINENT PHYSICIANS AND SUPGEONS of the