SUICIDE IN BERLIN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2114, 26 January 1886, Page 4

SUICIDE IN BERLIN.

Sncn)K is increabi.ig in Berlin to what imj he called a most ft iglitful extent. In one day lutely theie weio no fewer than t n cisei vt stlf-mmdcr a d' d attem] t d self inu. rter, \vl ie not a single day [ asses without bunging its repulsive story of suicide in c nme fo: in or other. Nor are th"Mj cases of fto (It -V confined to the lower and thf pnoicr classes. There have hfo'i «?pveral i>i«tane<'S <(iitte recently of stoi K]olibf j rs and other .-pecuLators moving ii the upper ranks of societj', who hew thf ir brains out in a fit of despair at financial misfoi tune. Tnesd.iy nl«o brings it- own peculiar tale of the death of an aiii d and respectable couple, owning n viild in the nio-rt fashional>le street of the Wet Ivid. The story i-> that Heir M<uk\rnld, a ictiicd banker, sudd>!ily cxpiied m some imstenous way, and that hi-> widow at once put an end to her life with a revolver. The couple, who had beveral niartied chikhen, had left written instructions for the cremation of their bodies. — Times.

Of nil actions of onr Hfo marriaaro is mo-t mrddlcd with by other people. — Solden. An enslaved and frivolous people require bread and the «rom"s of a circus; «a free nition must have bread and the newspeper. — Loustulot. TiiEO^oriiY has given up its miracles, writes the London correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury. Still retaining their belief in the existence of a brotherhood deep in the mountainous recesses of Thibet, their belief in Mahatinas, who lived for a thousand years, and in their astral bodies passed from Scandinavia to Australia, from London to Calcutta, without difficulty, theTheosophists have, nevertheless, surrendered their early faith in Mmc Blatvatsky's mysterious letters placed by invisible hands in locked cupboards. I saw the other day a drawing of Mine Blavatsky's rooms, showing how she worked the miracles at her occult shrine. She did the business by means ot a cabinet in the room, which concealed an opening into the next. It was simple, but it took in such simpleminded men as Colonel Olcott and Mr A. P. Sinnett. Mr Sinnett has written books descriptive of her powers. But Mmc Coulomb split upon Mmc Blavatsky's ghosts, and Theosophy now has lost its miraculous sanction. Without miracles it is certain to fade away. Importt.d Agricultural Pests. — The Americans now complain bitterly of the 'English' sparrow, as they persist in calling it, and I saw in an American paper that sparrow clubs were being formed lor the purpose of exterminating the little intruders. I might say much from personal recollection of the sparrow in America, but lack of space forces me to pass to the spirrow in New Zealand, where, according to Miss Gordon Cu (Timing's account, the bird has become a positive plague to the colonists, Some jears ago fifty sparrows were imported, and rapidly increased, so that they have overrun the country. Like the Kea parrot, which abandoned vegetable food and took to eating sheep, the sparrow has become a total vegetarian, and lives wholly on grain nnd fruit. In ten days one fruit grower had jive figtrees completely stiipped of their fruit, and a ton and a half of grapes eaten. How to cope with thc c c winged plagues no one know s. Shooting can make but little impiession on their vast numbers, while they flatly decline to go into traps or eat poison. The importation of the rabbit into New Zealand produced similar results. In 1860 aeven rabbits were turned out. Twenty years afterwards seven million skina had been exported, one proprietor having killed more than 180,000, and yet the number continued to increase to such an extent that ono landowner was forced to abandon a sheep-run of 230,000 acres. — Sunday Magazine. • The Land akd the People.'— Such was the subject of an able lectuie delivered by the Rev. George Brooks, London, at Tranent. under the chairmanship of Mr Riddell, Nether Hailes, Haddirgton. The lecturer said it needed no sagacity to see that the gieat struggle would be the soil, and to bo prepared for that struggle they must undei stand the facts of the case. He was radical, and he would go to he root of the land question that evening. Every man had an interest in the soil, and there was land for every man. In the Book of Job the land question was spoken of in terms which were applicable at this time. The Roman Empire had been convulsed over the land question too. Taken in the mass, the people were now virtually cut off from the soil. In Domesday Book the land was in the hands of 200,000 ; now it «as in the hands of a few hundreds. Mr Brooks quoted statistics showing the acieage held by a few individuals, and then proceeded to speak of primogeniture and entail, the effect of the latter being, he said, to keep the land in few hands. He then detailed the remedies he would apply to the existing state of things, and votes of thanks closed the proceedings. TnE Rural Picture in the Northern Highlands. — An intelligent farmer in the uplands of Banffshire write 3 in a dismal strain regarding agriculture in bis neighbourhood. He says: -'What awoeful state the harvest is in. During Friday and Saturday of last week the weather was so tempestuous that no field work could be done, and cutting is ' scarcly half through, uncut crops are laid and twisted in all directions, and harvest is unusually laborious. Along the hill-side the grain will not make meal for farmers and their families, and seed for next year's crop will have to be imported from some more fortunate locality where crop 3 were secured before | harm came their way. Farming cannot survive long under so many drawbacks and losses. How could it be expected that men can live when they do not reap their food from what they sow, and have seed, labour, and rent to pay for too ? If relief does not come in some shape, the endurance of many a farmer will cease. Where are we to seek relief ? Bad season.", high rents, dear labour, and low prices for farm produce, are crushing all the energy and spirit cut of us. Landowners must share in the uncertainties with the cultivators. Vow know how your brethren of the soil are circumstanced ! why should the few have such re\ enues and princely domains, while large thousands of their fellow creatures are starving for bread to eat ?'

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