A NEWSPAPER FACT.—The Cheltenham Chronicle lately narrated a story, as
matter of fact, which has travelled the circuit of the press, under the title of " Love, Poison, and Despair." The substance of it is, that a youth disappointed in love, and fall of romantic notions, resolved to dootroy luracalf, and with that deadly intent applied to a chemist for poison; but the shopman suspecting his design, supplied a harmless drug of a cooling tendency. When in the agony and horrors of supposed death, he makes known his deed, and the tragedy is turned into farce by the discovery of the chemist's discreet proceed- ing. This true story furnishes no bad specimen of newspaper facts ; for it is copied, with some immaterial variations, from the fable of a paper by one of us in the London Magazine,* entitled "Confessions of a Suicide ;" which was written as a quiz upon diseased sentiment.
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