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Temuka Leader, Issue 2126, 18 November 1890, Page 4

Fbmakkabi-E Suioidk. —An extraordinary story was telegraphed frosi s t. Petersburg on Oct. 10. It is probible that no romancer has ever imagined a more dramatic incident. A young piofessor of medicine, Koucharsky, closed a lecture on poisonous acids to his class jo the laboratory of the university by pouring into a glass some drops of one of the poisons, saying as he drank them, “In two minutes you are going to see a man die before your eyes. Gentlemen, 1 bid yon farewell,” The students rushed! up and tried to administer an antidote, but it! was powerless. At the expiration of the time he had fixed, Koucharsky wak a corpse. There is great excitement in; St. Petersburg over the tcsgi.e incident. It is generally believed that the professor ,hai gone suddenly insane, for no motivej for the act, as far ns is known, existed, j lie leaves a wife, of; whom he was Very f«j»nd, and two little children. Ho will be buried with great pomp at the expense of the 0 tot 5 The best medicine Known is B andeh . and Sons’ E uualjfti JiXTKACT. 'Test its emipeht poweiful effects in coughs, colds, influenza ; the relief is instantaneous. In serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be' they wounds, burns, scald in gs, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy —no swelling—no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in sroup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swellings, &0., diarrhoea, dysentry diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with modal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others