The International Monte Carlo Committee at Nice has sent to all the European Governments perhaps the most eloquent indictment of public faming* tables that has ever been written. Ik' consists of a complete list of all the suicides who have destroyed ' at Monte Carlo from 1878 to the present" time, and it has been compiled in tk hope of bringing collective action to 'bear upon Prince' phases'n}., o! Monaco,' m whose personal interests the gamins, tables are primarily kept going, The number of poisons who, seeing themselves face to face with ruin, have omitted suioide upon the lovely rook "where" in Lord Tennyson's phrase, "little Monaco basking smiles," during the last - eight years is 1820, a number equal to *bo»t one-fourth of tho whole of Prince Charles subjects. The list states tho name, nationality, and date of death of each suicide, together with, in many owes, their letters of farewell, Th ft K7 rU . f Je yctims wero Man, French, and ; one-tontlJLe German. The English and aMSu . names are, happily, voiy few. Many of these poor creatures, we learn, were unceremoniously buried in pauper graves A unique compliment has been paid to Mibb Mary .Anderson by the l£2 Sorosis, York ladies'dub. monico'sftg&jj.restaurant \ They seps to jjiave had a good time of it' -, aa the breiftet lasted four houra, anil • frtsdom from male observation.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2228, 24 February 1886, Page 2
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223Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2228, 24 February 1886, Page 2
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