The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-27
Can't o Negro sneeze.

The recent absurd statement that the
negro is never known to sneeze, which
has been going the rounds OF the news
papers, led q reporter Of the New York
San to make an effort to settle the dis.
puted question by obtaining number
ofinterviews on the subject from intelli.
gent colored residents of New York
City. Without exception these inter-
views resulted in indignant denials of the
statement that the nasal possibilities Of
tho maS of color were not equal to
those of his white brother. Here Is the
report:
Ex.Alderman and present Deputy
Sheriff seaton, the ebon giant who
guards the lower hallway Of the Equita.
BE building was highly indignant
when shown printed statement to the
effect that negroes weTe never known to
sneeze= With o snort of contempt he
said "Thst's e lie, and know ita
! lie, for I'm g negro, and sn6ezc.-.
The fellow that wrote that must have
been some loafer who had nothing else to
( do. I'll bet can sneeze more times in q
minute than he eyer had dollars in his
life.p
II =Tesssss..ss.ns In Park Park IRsov, IRsov josh and
George and half n dozen other cclored
a.
Igreading Of the obnoxious paragraph,
Iand their black faces wore lighted hy
broad -grins before IL was finished.
ItWell, / knows sneeze,n said ONE
ssAfe, Too" said another, "we all sneeze,
don,tR Josh7n But josh only smiled
md walked away. George said shat he
sneezed sometimes "fit 70 sneeeese hia head head
off.n ,'g'Ya18 sts. ~ 2 s 81 (
In tho Actor House the flourish OF o
iwhiak broom iii Close proximity TO
the reporters ears was suddenly sus-
pended as he mildly inquired or the
artist of tho broom, DO you sneeze? 2"
"Dces sneeze q does Z aneeEe? Why, of
course, sneeze; everybody what has
breaf sneexe. Why, boss, you must be
q iitsle of 70 aak me srch q fool question
as that. s. .siss fs;t s'fss a
AZ TwentyrthiFd street and Sixth
eyeauG Black Joe spbiishes boots but
he stopnsd BIS lWolE in astonishment
when the reporter, or whose boots he
was labo7ing. asked him If gentlemen of
color like himself were able to sneeze.
| IIs'ssslsseze 4 Docs celored gelnmen aneaze 1
Well, nov, dey jefs do for O fac. Why,
deFe amt no aneeEeEe In she Worl' like
nigger eneezsra. Zee sneezed MORN
four million times nyaelf, and even Eiy
TO- tnpnfhg' old baby sneezed that bad
only this mornin' that he sneezed his.
St;mbody was foolin' you, for shuSh,
whom no told you that yarn bout us
cOiored folks not sneezin.'
n ltaty colored youth, who acts as
stable boy Ia one Of the great horse car
stabiss5s, was willing to bet, Man' the
money pisnked DOM, fhat he could
sleezo louder than any white man in
| Ehe city, aud he iknew q felier what could
snseze l6udsr,n me- Suiting his ac-
sions to bis words, he picked up; o whisp
Ilof straw, tickied his nose wiik d terri
bio contogtioa Of the facial muscles,
startled The neighborh ood with q eneeze
50 iuIiu anu ~ yl1i ttizp ~ 5.ivtiS
was sntficient TO act at rest forever she
yexed question.
TO make assurance doubIy suro, the
reporter called upon an eminent physician
Ia an uptown hospital, aud agoussd
him from his paFuaal of q work on his.
tolcgy by tho question, "Can a anegfo
1 sseeze 2''
Certainly, dir; tobe sure d negro may
aneez0 il h0 wants to---Why not %
But 4 mean, Doctor, arc tho nasal
I T5ssssi SssssSs 81 - =5 *. ..
| IreEder hisa capable os ereezing an
OBJ understand; you, Ike the
j Igentleraan who sometime ago canle to
/ ms With The conuHdsufn, sAFe fiies
j engcrs gre Is pursuit of inf0gmag
/ ton. Wei: air. 81 y0u. of cotlIaa.
lgnOtT, HI7eszIRts is one Of the Ccnmonest
examples of reflex aotion. The steTnu4
sapt eopaing In conts set With HE de icaie
aehnes deglan membrane lining tho la
fupdi ibuipfn md fa ea tsia nasi, nets an fFs
L fiiakiS 20 hfRpehes rff tl b iif Il fair vghinf