Show SUICIDE the following is an anecdote of dr johnson Jeh boswell bowell once asked johnson if there was no possible po circumstance under which suicide would b be justifiable igno no was the tile reply well says boswell Bo swell awell 14 suppose a man had been guilty ot some fraud that tint th at be he was equally certain would be found out why then says johnson in that case let him go to some country where lie he is not known and not to the devil where lle ile lie he is known lord lindsay in his travels writes that while wandering amid the pyramids of egypt lie he stumbled on a mummy proved by its hieroglyphics to be at least two thousand beir of age in examining the mummy at teri terl ter it was unwrapped he found in one of its enclosed hands a tuberous or balbus root he was interested in the question how long vegetable life could last and he therefore took the tuberous root from the hand planted it in a sunny soil allowed the rains and dews of heaven to descend upon it and inthe in the course of a few weeks to his hia astonishment ment and joy the root fiirst b arst forth and bloomed into a beautiful dahlia damia |