The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-23

the map, nor i'm the city. nor anywhere
save on the omnibus placard. People are
consequently departing every hour. and
several times during the hour for this
undiscovered placethe number of French
men, he calculates. VINO have disappeared
ia a year on this vain pursuit exceeds
5000 and il bchooves the authorities. he
declares, to take some decided stem before
the whole French nation has vanished
IN the direction OF the mythical Place
Courcelles
Lord Chesterfield In his letetr particular
~ warned his son against laughter. as
characteristic Of folly and III manners
true wit or sense he says. never yet
made anybody laugh; they are above IL:
they please the miud and give a cheerful?
ness TO the counteuance Ii is low buffoon-
cry ana silly accidents that always excite
laughter And to these it is that the
Auteurs Gals most often resort All sorts
of Quarrels. between husbands and wives
mothers and daughters, mothers-in- law
and whole families who ruin each others
domestic peace and happiness by constant
disputes over trivial matters. always bring
fuil houses at the theaters. when the Au-
tours Gals turn their hand to dramatic
writing SO many plots have they con-
structed around the question OF divorce
that when the laws We're changed num-
Der of their farces had 10 be remodeled
Two abundant resources of wit more OF
the kind that 'pleases the mind and gives
a cheerfulness 20 the countenance.' are
the law and the government They are
made the landmarks Of protect lion. the
guardians of individual safety, who restrict
all personal liberty under pretense of
thoughtful supervision and make It i'm
possible for man to get started at any
thing before his energy is bound No in red
tape. According to these wits. they for
bid man, even at his own risk, to ride a
bicycle in the city. 20 walk on the railroad
track, to enter a train on the sides he
pleases, without permission from the gov
eminent The humorists have written
many stories about the gentleman who is
arrested and searched at the police station,
where he goes innocently TO deposit a
watch he has found in the street; about
the country policemen who agitate their
shoulders in disgust when a theft is re-
ported to them and say: you come too
late. With the administration, one should
report these robberies before they are COM
mitted;" about the man with a small pet
dog, who is first arrested because the dog
is loose, and on the following day rear
rested because the laws have been chang
| ed and the dog is stin leashed.
Bill Sharp. Alphonse Atlas and CrIstan
Barnard write regularly for the Journal
Alfred Capus publishes several times a
week In the Figaro an amusing dialogue
between a deputy and his son, a senator.
and his wife, or a functionary and his
man servant. which, with master stroke
of wit and wisdom, bring the shortcom-
| ings of the government and the admins.
| tratlon clearly to mind
About two years ago five of the humor-
| lists determined to write novel In col
alteration The first on the list which
was arranged by lot, was to give the story
name and a hero. who, of all the char
| acters, alone must be nVulnerable. The
authors could kill whom else they liked.
bring in as many persons as they pleased,
| or carry the scene to any part of the
| world. Cristau Bernard began the story
| under the title of "X---; An Un-Roman
| Impromptu," and when he had completed
several chapters he passed It along to
Courteline, and he in turn TO the next,
until il had made the rounds a number
| of times and been well wound up. 1t
was published as a feuilleton in Gil Bias,
but not with such success that the public
| begged for more.
Pierre Weber, In the preface, has given
| few biographical notes about himself,
| and his collaborators "If seventy towns
dispute the honor of having been my birth
| place" he says, "it IS not because l am
ten times more celebrated than Homer,
| but only because my name Is a common,
III.
| house with a marble placard over the
| coor. The placard bears the name Of q
! tailor, but It is a good thing to have Ia
| there, for 1t will be so easy some day TO
rub out the name of the tailor and put
mine instead, followed by was born In
| this house Hitherto my life has been
too dull to afford interesting material for
a biography, but, perhaps, later, If any
| thing remarkable happens to me, or IL
| / to a great flipparc 40 ali
my journal" Vebers best books are
| "Vous men Direz Tant," Les Vebers. -
les Enfants s'Amusent," and Limo
| cente du Logis."
Cristan Bernard Is a Jew, who has mar
| ried the prettiest woman In Paris, and
has reason to be gay. lie Is 49, Weber says,
and has been a humorist since childhood.
He used as a small boy to economic the
| 10 sous he received weekly for his pleas
ure and put them back slyly among the
family funds. In order to cause hopeless
| confusion In his unces accounts. He was
! stolen by some Bohemlans and carried off
| TO Italy, but Monseigneur Rampoa dis
covered him and brought him back To
! France. He has written great many short
| stories and a one-act play called LES
| Pieds Nckeles," which has been given at
| the Theater d'Oeuvre. ut seems a small
thing" says Bernard, but If the Theater
| Francois, the Odeon, the Vaudeville. the
| Gymnase, and the Renaissance should all
play my piece at once, and several times
| every night, ] should be as important as
Alexander Dumas fls"
Georges Courteine," Weber continues in
his preface, as the master of wit; he
spreads IL abroad in profusion; no one has
| controlled laughter with such authority
| as he. Les Gaietes de PEscadron sums
| up a good part Of his talent; 'Bourbou-
roche and La Peur des Coups' reveal the
rest They are full of descriptions and of
vigor and logic which place them above
| the comic" Courteline has a fine. delicate.
| shrewd face. Short and to the point"
| is the motto he has chosen
| Jules Renard is tall and well-built. He
has red hair, bright eyes and phlegmatlc
! temperament which keeps him absorbed
with his books.
| OF Georges Auriol, Weber says "He is n
perfect gentleman Of letters. who might
be any age between q and 90 Full face,
he resembles the Prince of Wales, and In
| profile he looks like wild goat. He be-
longs TO the army and has been sent on
several expeditions; that to the Pal-Pi
| Bris was especially brilliant Alone, with
| out escort, almost without food he went
10 see these ferocious savages; he visited
! their settlements studied their customs,
In fact. lived their life, for one whole day.