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Show UE ailSSEDJlIS MARK. A Despondent 8wede Undertskes to ELnEe Of over an Uninoceit-ful Uninoceit-ful Love ATair. TAKEN IN BY THE 0rriCEE3. Another Incident Added to the Long List of Tragio Chapters that are Eocoried in Zion. Th.it stntucsquc sleuth, Officer Sulli-vau, Sulli-vau, has by bis liery vigilunce, cheated tho constant reader out of a racy suicide ; which should have been 'enacted : at 1 o'clock this afternoon, but which j by reason of tho sturdy attention of the aforesaid patrolman, failed to come off. It was about the hour mentioned that the attention of the oflkvr was called to tho Trlvoli saloon from which a cloud of gunpowder was lazily drifting, and hastening to the side entrance he gobbled a straw-tressed straw-tressed Swede who held tho smoking weapon beneath the frock of his coat. A momeut Inter the prisoner was scaud in the sepulchral confines of tho black Maria and hurried off to tho cooler. "What do you moan by this?" demanded de-manded the stalwart officer. "I vas meaus to kill myself." replied the fellow in rythmio dialect." "What for?" 'Veil, she to me say you vas take to much of my time, and I don't vaut dot you come mid me some more." "Ami you then went off to commit suicide," continued the olllcer. "Dot's wat I buy do gun for," and at this the Swede who was suboequuntly registered as Frederick Ki slmau revealed a g ist-ening ist-ening six-shooter, a messenger irom which had niisd its object and gone into the bar of the Titoii that now presents pre-sents a (leciiVcliv that liTid at-pemance. at-pemance. The would be Htiicide Issitid to be an electrician in the employ of the local company, and, dUapp iutd in his amour, he 'determined to sliutll off. Judge Luney will give liiiu an opportunity op-portunity to shovel a liitlo soil on the streets. |