Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — A Famine Duel. [ARTICLE]

A Famine Duel.

London Lancet. Jacques the, the professional hunger virtuoso of Paris, has sent a challenge to Succo, the famine debaucheof Italy, to the following effect: “I Alexandre Jacques, having been informed that Sig. Succi intends attempting a fortyfive days’ fast in New York, do hereby challenge him once more to fast for endurance under equal conditions.. I, the child of defy the blatant Italian. Succi. Accept my challenge and starve me, or be known forever more as a braggart sailing under salsa odors.”