The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-30
IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSES.
MANIAoAL DESIRES THAT INFLIor
SANE MEN.

center, Pays For His Freak and
Then Relates Other Experiences.
From the Ney York Evening Sun.
Two men entered the cafe, and sat down
at one Of the little round tables. It was il
the evening about 10 o'clock. The cafe was
one Of the most famous In New York.
One of the young men gave the order and
a waiter fetched two glasses, q bottle OF
Apollinaris and massive bottle containing
whisky. The young men poured out u
moderate drink and emptied their glasses
with a mutual Heres luck"
Then they sat back In their chairs and
pulled at their cigars, talking quietly.
Soon one Of the young men began to fidget
in his chair. He measured with his eye the
distance from the table at which he sat to
the nearest chandelier. He picked up the
heavy bottle and weighed 10 in his hand.
He became more uneasy.
"rve got to do It, he said TO his friend.
''or I'll 60 mad"
Then he left his chair and going up to the
cashier he asked him the value OF the par
ticular chandelier be had been cycling. The
clerk told him, the young man touk out
from a roll of bills that amount, put it be-
fore the nstonished cashier, returned TO the
ing into the glass globes.
There was a crash ana then rush. The
young man was seized by dozen men, but
he quietly rubbed his hands together. ele-
waited his shoulders and sat down at the
table
Its all over now he said to those who
had seized him, "the attack has passed. l
had to do it or l would have gone mad.
There is the money to pay for the damage
..vSllxs a.
you ask and | apologize most humbly."
The proprietor OF the resort bad heard the
noise and came rushing In. He knew the
young man and the fire In his eye disap-
peared when he had heard the explanation.
THAT is rather an expensive luxury
said the other young man after everything
had Quilted down.
Yes rather, but it's worth it."
its an evidence of insanity, you know
Yes Every man. according TO some
old fogy, has madman, a poet, q doctor, a
lawyer, a thief and a murderer locked up in
his heart. / have spent great deal of
money in pursuit Of pleasure, but that was
the first time ever gave way to the desire
10 smash q chandelier. You cannot imaR-
inc what pleasure that mad act gave me.
OF course now that have experienced it
well. will never want 20 do so again. Its
like the first kiss.
THE DESIRE TO SMASH THINGS.
81 have experienced the desire to smash
things. ,
II believe every man has at some time or
other, II not to smash things, to do some
thing equally az foolish and rash
Whenever / see man with a basket of
egRs l feel like putting my foot in them.
And when see couple Of hundred
glass globes ranged alongside Of each other
on the elevated railway station / have al
ways the longing to kick every one of them
over and see them smash and witness the
CONSERVATION and anger OF the man in charge
OF them. ,.... ........
II went to the Museum Of Natural His
tory the other day. l had hard work to
keep myself from putting my fist into the
great long glass cases. ! clenched my hands
and felt utterly worn out and had hsavy
pains in my head when finally got through
with the last case. bad young woman
with me, aud imagine, please, what would
have happened had given way TO the i'm.
pulsei II made me shudder TO think OF IL
when got home tony pipe.s~
1.-THE sight OF long rows OF pictures with
handsome glass cases over them always fills
me with the most intense agony. 1t is only
with great difficulty that / restrain myself
from running thousands of dollars OF prop
erty.n
~ have the desire to smash thines much
worse when / have had two or three
drinks" y
80 do l.. A friend of mine got on spree
In Denver and went into every bar room.
You know the cafes there are all very hand
somey mirrorsd. aud 10 every one Of them
he smashed the mirrors. He spent several
weeks in Jail in consequence"
"The desire In itself Ia not insanity, but
giving way to 10, think. 10. don't your
Eyes. And, by the way, how does the
sight OF poison affect youi As for myself,
l am always wanting TO experiment. on my
SELF" e3f ~ S
every man. or nearly every man, now
adnys, think, THINKS he is immortal, and
that. while others die from poison, he could
escape its effects
MoNKEYING WITH A BUZZ SAW.
81 hardly ever see bottle of poison
without wanting to taste IL, at least.
always want 30 monkey with buzz saw, ,
as the saying is.
"Whenever / see rapidly working ma
chinery always feel like putting my finger
in to try to stop ii. And whenever hear
Of man jumping from the Brooklyn bridge
l, too, feel like trying it just to see il
really would be killed. l know that |
would, yet sometimes / doubt IT.
Sometimes when have been present at
a dance or party where the you z ladies
hDpeaE III low ueCh ouu snOrb sleeve dresses
l often shudder after have reached home
when l think what would have happened
had / given away TO the impulse 20 upset a
cup OF hot bouillon on their baro shoulders.
"When go to have my shoes tried on
always feel like kicking the man who is
kneellng over my feet in the face. 10 Is a
wonder to me that BARRIERS, when they are
shaving men, do not cut their thronts.
Often when am shaving myself feel Ii Ike
cutting my own throat. 1t is well that
BARRIERS are mostly men OF ignorance and
good habits"
Every man feels like throwing himself
from high tower orifrom a rapidly travel
ing railroad train.n
II suppose we have these impulses be-
cause we are not altogether healthy
animals"
eve don't sleep enough before midnight.
We smoke too much, work too much, think
too much, worry too much. drink too much,
do everything too much nowadaysn
~ had trouble with my heart recently
and went to see my doctor. young man,
said be. your heart beats too quickly. You
must regulate IL. You must become a
philosopher and put IL all on the devil. say
Devil may care, aud you1l liveaoDger."
CONGRESSMAN TON L. JOHNSON of Ohio Is
greatly distressed when newspaper men dignity
him with the full Thomas. Tom In the name
his mother gave him. Tom" he SIGNS himself
and Tom" he i'd to everybody in Cuyahoga
county, from his humblest motorman to Grand
pa Payne. He has greater personal popularity
than any man in Northern Ohio,