The Nice Journal continues to re« porfc further tragedies both at Nice and Monte Carlo. In. a recent issue it stated that a rich" stranger had blown out his brains at the Hotel de Paris, after having lost all his, for* tune at play, On January 13 it records the case of a commercial clerk at Nice , who, from a similar cause, put an end to his life by shoot- | ing himself through the head. On the same day a man committed suicide behind the Hotel do Longres at Monte Carlo. Public salaries and private wages are absurdly low m Switzerland. The President ol the Confederation receives only L.600 a year ; - few judges get more than L2OO, while there is hardly a bank manager m j the whole country who earns twice i iho latter .sun* ia a jmr, '
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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1216, 19 April 1884, Page 2
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