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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 101, 8 May 1883, Page 3

' A' very peculiar suicide was committed by" a schoolmaster at 'Mangalore (Victoria) recently. He purchased a -gimlet at a store at Mangalore, and; was very particular in its selection. He. returned homej and actually bored with, the gimlet through his left breast, . piercing the heart, *and thereby ending his .hearty career. • ■ The body of the, old sea dojj.lfiiir Francis Drake, enclosed in a leadea coffin, was dropped into the sea off .Puerto Cabello, in the West Indies. The British squadron on the North American station are about to visit the place, and Vice- Admiral Sir John Commeril is said to have taken up a suggestion that an attempt should be made to recover the remains. : A contemporary says:— There is nothing so effective in presenting the merits of an article as an attractive . acU vertisement ; it reaches many people whose attention cannot be commanded in any other way. It is just as natural for the reader of a newspaper to buy from those people who advertise therein as it is for children to follow a passive of soldiers. The simple fact of seeing a thing every day has an irresistible attraction.