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Show POOR GIRAFFE LOVED TURTLE1 Animal's Suicide In Jardln dee Plintes Explained to Satisfaction of Commissary. It Is a Bad, sad story and tho details de-tails will nover bo known how tho giraffe at tho Jardln des Plantcs, the Paris zoo, committed suicide. This giraffe, who hold tho record in her class for height, was neurasthenic. neuras-thenic. The attendants noticed the other day that she looked troubled. She stood In her front yard waving her long neck from sldo to sldo, her eyes In the clouds. Then sho dashed her head against tho side of her bouse, causing concussion of the. brain. The commissary of pollco was notified noti-fied of her death and ho openod an inquest What were tho reasons for suicide? She was ot high standing, four and a half meters. Sho was not Involved in tho troubles of married life, for the simple reason that sho was not married. Perhaps, howover, she waB In lovo. When tho commissary came to this question he felt Bure he was on the right track. From tho .keepers ho learned In fact that tho giraffe somo time previously had fallen In love with a turtle, but the latter showed almost stony lndlfferenco to her ad-I ad-I vances. Sho tried to mnke eyeB at the turtle, but he seemingly paid no attention to ber. The turtle seemed to think there was an Inseparable distance dis-tance between them. Tho Inquest was ended and it only remained for the commissary to notify tho family of the deceased, i |