CURIOUS MOTIVE FOR SUICIDE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1106, 13 February 1879, Page 3

CURIOUS MOTIVE FOR SUICIDE.

i> is reared of a Chinaman tnat, having lost Ins iimorella, lie liaugeu mmself to avoid the trouble of looking for it. A sni ide bas been committed in Paris under circum••qn.illv ludicrous and melancholy. An honest binder, employed tor more than twenty years in a Jbnen how.*?, bad hncn sent up to the P r'-i Exhibition, his expenses being 'provided uiu of the Lottery Fund. The poor fellow enjoyed himself immensely-, and would doubtless have felt grateful ever after to the Administration which had provided him with so delightful an entertainment for nothing. Unhappily, however, workmen thus favored are expect':! to draw up a report of their experiences for the commissioners of the lottery. Now, the binder had no sooner returned to his native city than bis literary labor began to weigh-on him like a nightmare. He was afraid lie should be expected to give a full account of all the sections <>f the exhibition, with copious observations on the wondrous tilings contained therein. If be did not do this he was convinced that the Government would sue him for the cost of his trip. It was to no purpose that his comrades tried to cheer him up, and even offered to compose his report for him. Lesage—such was the miserable man's name —lost Iris appe tite, grew morose P.r.d sullen, and one d.*y disappeared from his home. His body was shortly afterwards found in the Seine.