The French cabman who recently committed suicide (says the ‘ Pall Mall Gazette ’) runs his classic rivals very close for the most simple and calm taking-off on record. His reasons for the “ rash act,” as we usually call what is probably the most deliberated thing a man does in his life, were half ennui and half professional curiosity, Before he strangled himself with his hankerchiof he wrote: “I leave this world because it pleases me to do so. I have had enough of driving people about in this world. I am going to see if in the other world people drive differently. All I ask ia that no fuss may be made about me.” And this eminently straightforward epistle he did not even address to those whom it might concern. With Yoltairean unconcern he wrote upon the envelope “To anyone,”
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Evening Star, Issue 7254, 4 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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