New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-25
SUCCPS INDOMITABLE WILL.
THOSE WHO WATCH HIM BECOME TIRED OUT
WHILE HE is AS PATIENT AS EVER.

THOSE WHO WATCH HIM BECOME TIRED OUT
WHILE HE is AS PATIENT AS EVER
Giovanni succi. the faster, greeted Tribune re-
porter pleasantly last evening and remarked In some
what "leftlnndeds way that newspaper men were
coming to him more regularly OF late
~Oh. that's easily explained. You see 'here Is
more space In you than there was when W" oe
gan your fast replied the reporter.
Suce smiled and reaching over TO his table, picked
up a letter and handed It for inspection III was
signed " Emil Paul, the champion sciei'"o yuan
eater Of the world" and it conveyed cohgr"''ia"o "
Paul's brother martyr in the cause OF sciences upon ms
unswcrvnp mind and s,eadfast WILL Experts disagree
as 10 whether IL is greater scientific acevemeht Ioa
man with forty-tw) quail in his society 10 roh up i
ewes contract his buccal muscles and STOW away
another brace of them in his pharyngeai ceits or u
give his stomach a forty-tve days hohoaN ana run HIS
internal business by psychic force
George Franeis Train, who takes great ih'cics'
in the faster predicts it is SAID. that tnese GA.
,,,riments mark new in scientific discovery
ana will lead TO great results. Another individual
has come to light lately who says he can snuh more
maarial and noxious gases up his nose than any ma
living bnt as this experiment Is being tired on d
large scale I'm Mottst IL is not likely TO prove an
attraction ON the STAGE and the faster Is likely 70 nave
a monopoly of the public eye for some time 70 come,
succi Is falling day by day, his eye has lost JUS
brightness and his mind its snap. He Is losing heSn
all the time but his elixir keeps him up In this nc.
snect wonderfully and his thinneSs mas not rtdohc
emaciation by any means, though he has been no"
twenty DAYS without food. 1t is surprising part Vi
the experiment that Succps strength increases rather
than I>ainishes under the ordeal Yesterday he put
a nickel in the photograph on the premises ana aa-
iusted the tubes to his and the machine pei "
grind out "The Dear Little Shamrock OF lreianu'
Succi was electrified. He threw down the tupes anu
Jumped back again over the railing of his incosnie
with an agility that truly surprising. III was
the first time he ever tried the photograph anoe IL
evidently surprised him.
IL Is proof Of the mans indomitabie ioru'uae
that he can sit in his chair for fifteen mortal houis
every day and talk, talk, talk 10 the huhoieus VI
people who go to see him. The reporters OH giaru
stretch themselves and grow weary, the hedca
students change watch with each other rom ciie
10 time the people sit and look at INN fQr a"i ah
and crow tired OF the monotony, but suc taxes the
terrible strain without g1umbling. and win o a
pluck that is almost sublime sublime, nc S' 66e
an accompanying symptom OF slarva,on, Is
not produced by lack Of food al all Dut " an ap
prehensive and fearful mind which wears se!i I g'
ty its own anxiety. To starve gracefully as 10 aio
gracefully requires courage and faith. and Succ seems
10 have much confidence in his ability 10 cav hos
for forty five days If IL were seiueu Ilns
but anxiety to the result he won't Tor minute
II is weII,known fact that physical force is not
no much dependent upon argeness OF muscle as upon
big nerves OF notion regulated by active mind and
sucCi's extraordinary muscular vigor Ievealed aior
prolonged fasting may be the gsut OF the elixir acg
ducion n weight that has not the effect of arresting
the consumption Of tissue In his BODY lie mas maue
q good many friends already, who come TO see nm
regularly and take a deep interest In his weiItlV
him flowers and think he would make a model nus
band for a hard winter