The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-31

you l wouldn't travel If thought there
was any danger"
"Tu quoque," retorted the schoolmas-
ter lis not true repartee."
Il shall have to take your word for
that" returned the Idiot, "since / have
not a Latin dictionary with me, and all
the Latin / know is to be found in the
quotations in the back of my dictionary,
like status quo ante, in vino veritas and
ct tn Brute. However, as l said before,
I'd like to travel, and I would if 1t were
not that the sea and / are not on very
good terms with each other 1t makes
me i'll to cross the East river on the
bridge I'm so susceptible to seasick-
ness"
You'd get over that in a very few
days" said the Genial Old Gentleman,
who occasionally imbibed. II have cross
ed the ocean dozen times, and I'm never
seasick after the third day out"
"Ah-but those three days" said the
Idiot. They must resemble the three
days of grace on note that You know
you couldn't pay If you had three years
of grace ] couldn't stand them, 1 am
afraid Why, only last summer l took
drive off in the country, and the mo-
ton of the wagon going over the thank
We marms in the road made me so sea-
sick before I'd gone a mile that l want
ed to lie down and die. / think / should
have done so If the horse hadn't run away
ana IOIceu me TO Ilue Dack nome whether
I wanted to or not"
you ought to fight that" said the
Doctor. by and by, if you give way to
a weakness of that sort, the creases in
your morning newspaper will affect YOU
similarly as you read 1t. If you ever
have a birthday let us know and Wen
help you to overcome the tendency to buy
ing you a baby jumper for you to swing
round in every morning until you get
used to the motion.
1T would be more to the purpose. =
replied the Idiot, IF you as a physi-
clan would invent a preventive of sick
ness. I'd buy bottle and go abroad at
once on my coin collection if you would
guarantee 1t to kill or to cure instantan-
eously."
There is such nostrum," said the
Doctor.
There is, indeed" put in the Genial
Old Gentleman who occasionally imbibes.
i've tried it,
And were you seasick2" asked the
Doctor.
II never knew" replied the Genial Old
Gentleman. TT made me so i'll that I
never thought to inquire what was the
matter with me. But one thing is certain.
I'll take sea voyage straight after this .
I'D like to go by rail-" said the Idiot.
after a moments thought.
THAT is a desire quite characteristic
of YOU" said the Schoolmaster. TT is
so probable that you could. Why not
say that you'd like TO cross the Atlantic
on a tight roper"
Because 1 have no such ambition .
replied the Idiot. Though it might be
fun if the tight rope were trolley wire
and one could sit comfortably in a spa
cious cab while speeding over the water.
/ should think that would be exhilarating
enough. Just imagine how fine it would
be on a stormy day to sit looking cut of
your cab window as far above the surface
of the raging and impotent sea, skipping
along at electric speed, and daring the
waves to do their worst-that would be
bliss"
And so practical" growled the Biblio-
maniac.
bliss rarely is practical" said the
idiot. bliss is a sort of mugwump bless
ing-too full of the ideal and too barren
in practicability.
We'll" said Mr.. Whitechoker, II don't
know that we should say that trolley
cars between New York and London never
can be. If we had told our grandfathers
100 years ago that cable for the trans
mission of news could be laid under the
sea they would have laughed us to scorn."
That's true" said the Sehoolmaster
But We know more than our grand
fathers did"
"Wen. rather.' interrupted the idiot.