The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-02
THE MORNING NEVIS SUNDAY APRIL q 1893sIXTEEN PAGES

disease. They are fed with chopped liver.
But they require running water. You
couldn't keep them in u globe, goldfish style.
WHO Is HENRY JAMEsl
Jenkins looked the picture Of mute de-
spair jenkins is able to " ear this look ad-
mirably. He has prscticed 1t a great deal,
being a struggling author.
II was in what you call "a mixed com
pany' to-day he said, land happened to
mention Henry James. Know who he is,
ehW
Novelist, etc"
"Glad you know.
Well, man No. l says: "Who the b is
Henry JamesP l was about to reply. when
man No, 2 answered, He was Postmaster
General a while ago. You're wrong there
says No 8, that was Thomas L. James,
Henry James is that converted anarchist. ,
"What converted anarcAstP gasped.
"'Why, the fellow that ran for mayor OF
New York once was the plying reply.
snow, )" continued Jenkins, 81 can and it
when an intelligent half dozen men SHOW
that they never heard OF one Of the greatest
living authors; but what are you going to
do with a man woo calls Henry George q
converted anarchistp
PRINTERS AND PEPPER.
was talking with the man who ruIs
might lunches" in one of the biggest news
paper offices In New York city He hap
pens to be a bit OF philosopher, and asked
me, apropos of nothing l remember, why
printers are so fond of pepper. | couldn't
tell but added that l had noticed the fact
"Well," said he, ''our food, especially soups
and stews. we have TO fill with pepper till
it's black. II we don't do 1t the
boys get hold of the pepper boxes and empty
them sixteen times at night. We couldn't
do anything but fill pepper boxes. There's
an oyster stew, now. TO healthy natural
appetite it's just ruined with pepper The
boys like it SO. They'd kick If it wasn't as
hot as Pike county tanglefoot. I've been
with printers in seventeen cities of this
country and two on the other side--I used
TO handle q stick myself-and it's the same
every where. Now how do you account for
that"
don't account for il. Perhaps late hours
and heated rooms have something to do
with it. That and the habit of smoking,
just about universal.
No wonder newspapers are so hot in cam
paign times. They're run on pepper.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Theodore Roosevelt is a man who has been
heard from in many departments of activity.
and he's young yet. he has greatly i'm
proved as writer since his first faulty maya
zine articles were published, and now holds
respectable rank in the literary guild. As a
politician he showed that be understood
running ward primaries as well as the boys.
He shows up we'll as a cowboy and grizzly
hunter, has served as an amateur sheriff in
running cattle thieves, and can ride the
hounds like an Irish squireen.
The chances are that Mr.. Roosevelt will be
out Of politics, presently, like a good many
other statesmen, and am informed that he
intends devoting more attention to litera-
ture in the future. The old knickerbocker
| stock in New York is pretty we'll repre-
sented in the profession of letters. Mrs.
Van Rensselaer, Cruger has cast Off the dis
guise of pseudonym and stands confessed
| as Julia Gordon" Mrs. Schuyler Van
| Rensselaer, and her gifted husband stand
well III magazine circles. 1t is in htstori-
cal lines that the descendants of Van
Twiller and Stuyvesant love most to delve.
Every member of the st. Nicholas Society
has his dates and pedigrees at his tongues
end.
Antiquarianism and genealogy ara hand
maids OF history. Look for more historical
work from Theodore.
THE ELEVATOR SICKNESS.
Civilization cures old diseases aud begets
new ones.
Add to the tennis elbow" and the
"writer's wrist" the elevator head For,-
unately it's not serious.
The elevator sickness is a sensation anala-
gous to ssasickness. You know If you've
crossed Lake Michigan in a northerly gale,
that you bear with fortitude the motion of
your end OF the boat when it's on the rise,
but listen for the angels harps when it
sinks. The elevator seasickness rs built on
the same principle. IL is more frequent in
New York and Chicago than anywhere
else in the world. Here half the business
is done in the elevator buildings. The vic
tins, mostly women, often suffer frlghttul
qualms when the car starts on its ownward
plunge.
An elevator man in one of the big Office
buildings says that fully 20 per cent. of the
people who ride up in the machines walk
down by preference, even when the hight is
considerable.
Some of the less impressionable victims
content themselves with Juggling at the rope
boys bob-tailed coat and begging him to
'go slower, please Then WITH NUT
tered prayer or something the boy, who has
heard that prayer before, shakes out a reaf
or two more, and makes the trip in double
quick, aud the victim shuts her eyes and
shudders Frequently she faints away COM
pletely. Experience does not seem to di-
minish the complaint.
THE TOP OF THE MoRNIN'.
How many boys spinning tops did you
step over this morning on your way to busl-
nessg
How many tops are made in the course of
year in this country to supply the natural
waste and wear and losss To make uD for
the tops that get through windows and are
burned up by surly servants and that fall
into the ewigkeit from various causesl
Ten million at the very least, maker of
tops assures me. To make them takes
enough wood to keep the Brooklyn bridge
promenade planked for sixty years at the
current rate of renewals, enough iron to
make a score of thr ashing machines, enough
string to reach from the. worlds fair to
Australia. That's speaking CT ordinary peg
tops only. The expensive affairs are another
matter.
Think of this next time top pegs your
favorite corn.
THEY SAY IN GOTHAM
That Ricnard Croker's sudden display of
immense wealth will 90 far TO end bis infu-
ence with the 'boys - it will provoke conn
parsons with Honest john Kelly and
Hubert D. Thompson.
That Mrs Cleveand-but then, it may
be mistake.
That there is lots OF heart consuming
Jealousy over the selection Of pictures for
the worlds fair.
That the naval parade in New York bay
will be better worth seeing than anything
In Chicago; but that isn't necessarily true.
That dudedom no longer spends its sub.
stance on gorgeous ties, but on elaborate
nightgowns.
That the elder Aston is communicating