It is said that seven, suicides is the normal daily average in New York and vicinity. Facts collated proved that poverty, which is usually considered a prime cause for self-murder, does net figure the motive in the majority of these suicides, for most of the persons are those in comfortable circumstances.
According to a traveller an intense prejudice • exists against the introduction of electricity into Turkey. The only application of electricity in evidence in that country is the telegraph. Large sums have been offered the Government for electric lighting and telephone privileges, but all have been refused, ,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1194, 18 January 1895, Page 26
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