Show DEATH CAUSED BY TRIFLES San Sen Francisco Fr Call CaU Men and women die every day in id ways w ays as peculiar as incomprehensible The story of the man whO having h ving traveled the world over braved tropic dangers dangere and nd aretice vicissitudes and checkmateS che matea death in a thousand ways and under a thousand different dis disguises guises came home to die by a fall from Ids hIs own doorstep is discounted daily dally in actual life Ufe S SA A Chicago woman talked herself to death not long since and nd act actually actually cut cult off her life span with her tongue and her teeth For over ten yeats she had bad never stopped talking by b night or day asleep or awake A nervous woman anti a great talker al aI always ways she lost her mental balance a decade since and commenced to talk without cessation Gradually growing weaker she yet talked the more un unceasingly unceasingly Unceasingly A particularly rapid and voluble flow of words left her at last literally short of breath She had I talked herself Into eternity Last year another Chicago woman leaning le ning over the rail of her back porch to look into the yard below lost her I balance and fell fen killing herself izi Another woman severed an I artery in her wrist while pealing peeling pota rota potatoes ota I Ioe toes oe and also paid natures last debt A Denver man was not long ago strangled by the loose rope of a clothesline napping Happing in a high wind He was adjusting the line Une which ran on pulleys s set between the back porch and the top of an adjacent building and the loose end of the rope was blown around his throat twisted tightly and carried far out of his reach the end becoming entangled in another part of t tl line Une The unfortunate man was unable to loosen its grim embrace embr ce the high wind being stronger than him himself himself himself self and the pressure caused by the wind slowly strangled him Another man swallowed a bit of the metal with which he was endeavoring to patch up upa upa upa a shabby picture molding and was W chocked to death also This man had served in the civil and ican lean wars warn and had followed the sea for many years Death claimed him after threatening ineffectually many times Umes just at the time when no dan dap danger danger ger r at hand Through two smallpox epidemics and anda a turn or two of yellow fever a South Southern Southern ern em physician rendered magnificent service without even the threat of ill illness ness ns n s for himself Mending the broken baseball of a boyish friend he pricked his finger The leather had evidently eVi dent I become imbued with some poisonous substance which the needle in passing it carried into the unconscious unconscIous unconscious finger Blood poisoning severe agony death resulted Once more the old Persian proverb is irre brought in mind mindA A little child a week or two ago fell into a a tub of scalding water and was drowned His mother had set tubs of scalding water on the kitchen floor every wash day since he had been born Many times they had been full The tub which killed the poor baby only contained a little of the cruel fluid But the th baby bab swallowed just enough to kill him A St Louis man was drowned a little while ago by fall faU falling falling ing head first into a huge barrel of wa water water Water ter set to catch the drippings from the eaves The water was only about two feet deep de p in the barrel but the man unable to recover his footing or to up upset upset set St the heavy barrel was hastened in into inI Into to another world Last Fourth of July Julya a a man was suffocated by the fumes of the fireworks he had ha provided provi ed for fo the th delight of his children He H wanted w nt to no see how brightly the colored flame would wo ld burn so he lighted a littler of the powder in his own room arid and lay watching it flare fiare and flicker tUcker until he fell asleep The door was closed the window but slightly open with a heavy screen between it and the bed The Theman Theman Theman man was aa dead when found suffocated as as slowly ly and surely as though by the aid of the famous charcoal burner of 01 France The murderous pistol which wont go off Is famed for Its deadliness but the flashlight pistol of the amateur photographer has yet to acquire a rep reputation reputation reputation of this order Yet an English girl had her life snuffed out like a candle in the wind because of one of the pistols a month or so ago The room which she desired to snap was w large and dark her charge of flash flashlight flashlight flashlight light powder correspondingly heavy The pistol seemed determined not to behave as it should sh uld After two or throe three Ineffectual efforts to discharge it the girl raised the guileless looking Instrument instrument Instrument ment to her face Bending close to in investigate investigate investigate the interior It went off sud suddenly suddenly suddenly denly A musket in the mouth could not have blown off her heal head more ef of effectually effectually |