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Sijrnor Snccl. Who Makes A Ratlier Com-

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Day
17
Month
September
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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torUble llvelihood iinu a decidedly un comfortable existenee out of starvutlon, is back to America. He was bom in ltaly thirty oven years ago und life bas convinced hhn tliut auy man can do well without food for at least tliree weeks if lie mukcs a business of it. Ile flrst trled starration in ltaly, but the pólice there only thought it a hIow and new-fangled way of coinmitting suicide and wanted to shut liim np in a mad house. Bignor Succi thcn lied to África, where be declares he fasted for GO days and diil not reach liis limit then. Succi has already made several long fasts and he is now goug to try it again In New York at the end of thi.s mout h. Wben the tast occurs Signor Succi wishes a commlttee of phjlidttH and anotber of non-prnfessionul gentlemen to watch liim constantly and he invites any one else to do the same. He has a secret. Of course everybody who fasti for a record has a secret, and Signor Succi takes the form of a bottle of red liquid whlch he calis an elixir of life. He takes two or three drops of it every day and it keeps him In perfect trim. During his comln; fust he will take nothing else beslde a bottle of mineral water a day, exercise, howerer he takes a full measure of, particularly fenciag. He does not go into a stuor and only sleeps at night. Altojether the experiment will be Interesting from all points of view.

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Ann Arbor Courier