There are many ways of shuffling off this mortal coii, but not^enough, it seems, for certain unhappy people who find themselves too early tired of life. A women at Torquay recently took her life by tying a rope to the bedstead and lowering herself Jout of the window, where she hung through the small hours of the morning. Hanging, it is said, is the form of death which women suicides prefer. But such a remarkable method of suicide is certainly rare. There was ail extraordinary example of deliber ate suicide at West Dulwich not long ago. A man who was in the house alone, placed a cricket stump across the top of a, manhole, tied his wrists together so that he was helpless, and in some mysterious way hung himself by means -of a rope fastened round his. waist. ■ Then, kicking away the ladder on which he stood to do all 'this, the poor fellow died slowly, gazing the while into a looking glass which he had arranged in such a position that he could watch his own death struggles. Sometimes., in' spite of *all prepautions, the sucicide fails. Nature is too strong for him to conquer. Huaireds of despairing men and women have been brought back from the edge of the grave against their wills, to' live for years forepent their folly and thank t: their t>3nefactors. But of only one man have we heard who was .saved from suicide at the last moment and yet did not live. He threw himself into the river, but death took him before he reached the water, or before he could be drowned, and the would-be suicide died a natural death. A chemists porter at Islington left his home six months ago to drown hims elf, leaving a letter of farewell he? hind, but was seised with a fit on his way to the river, and died in the street. ■

A Confession Mur der.
