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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 32, 23 July 1892, Page 8

Of a -famous French actor's dry hnmonr ■many instances . are . recorded, says . the "Players." Meeting one day a pretty actress whose lover had jilted her,: he opened the ■door of her coupe, and did all that was ; in his power to console her. But she would not be ■comforted.' "'No, no," she cried, "I,can never smile again'! I must drown myself'!" " Very well," said -her hearer, calmly shutting the door; "we shall .-meet at the morgue. Coachman, drive this lady<to; the rive." Yet he once meditated suicide himself, and having loaded a pistol, called'id "a, friend and brother actor to receive hia dying; wishes. The friend did not attempt. to ; dissuade him, but calmly jotted down the de* sired requests. Then, while his companion, was writing a farewell letter, he, took up'the' pistol and began ; examining it._ It "wascocked, and the muzzle was pointing straight, at the intending suicide, when ; that ; individual suddenly ducked with remarkable, agility under the table, crying," took "out I The infernal thing is loaded." • .. "