Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-12-05
What it Costs to Keep a Hote!.

The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette writes: a .
Speaking OF hotels, do you know how
extensively the accounts of a tirst-class
establishment foot up in the course of a
year? The bills of a frst-class hotel for
supplies aie enough to support good
many small families, especially if they
don't keep dogs and Saratoga trunks.
For example,
|. Twill give you some items from the
balance sheet of the oldest first class ho-
tel in New York. 1t pays $4,000 q
year for groceries, including $4,000 for
-four and So, 900 for butter, (Who
would suppose that its butter would
cost nearly three times as much as its
flour? but SO they tell me- The mar
keting bill is ,O0O-they pay one
man from So, 200, 10 100000 for beet
alone, and the balance of tho hundred
and fifty goes for mutton, veal, pork
poultry, vegetables, fish, &c The milk
and cream cost $4,000, about two-thir,ls
of it being for milk and oue-third for
cream. Eggs cost about $4,000, the
average use being one hundred dozen
daily, or 10000 annually. The gas bill
is 1000 and the coal bill pretty much
the same;, friction matches cost sl.50
"a day or about $500 a year; good
many of these are not used In the house
but lind their way into the pockets of
the patrons. Who would think OF. pay
ing for wooden toothpicks, when any
body can wbittle one with little trouble3
A million are used every year at an cx-
pense of some thing less than q hun
dred dollars. BroNu tissue paper, cut
to about the size of common note sheets
costs about $1,000 a year and some
times more according to the patronage
the house has received. The bill tor
liquors tor the bar-r0om is a, lheaYy one,
but fortunately for the proprietors, the
amount received from patrons is a great
deal more. With all the figures staring
him IN the face, man who can keep
a hotel Is entitled to all the praise of
his fellow citizens, AMI can be 10 set
down IN the list on philanthropists and
practical beIiafaetorsl of his race. zodH
= Too MucII HEN4Too Few EGGs.-
A student at a certain military a cademy
had copied a drawing Of a scene iii Ven
ice, and in copying the title be had spell
the name of the city e,.nice." The
drawing master put his pen through the
superfaous letter observing: ''.Don't you
know sir, that there is but one 'hen' in
Veuiccr" On which the youth burst
out laughing. Being asked what he was
about replied that he was
thinking how uncommon scarce eggs
must be there. The master, in his wrath,
reported him to the colonel in command,
a Scotchman. He on hearing the disre-
spectful reply, without IN the least per
ceiving the point of the joke, observed,
"An' a terra natural observation, too
TuE LITTLE sins, KiiLI.--In some har-
bors it is found that, after q time the
largest timbers arc bored by a little IN
sect, who has pierced the stout oak as by
thread Of fire, SO that it, breaks under
il its own weight and erupptblleess up tlesi mt INTO
So there are men who seem to DO made
OF the strongest stuff, strong enough to
{. wa. '''h. any weight put upon tneni, uue WY '
IN n, time get completely riddled through
with sins, and fall at last by. the sheer
force of moral gravitation. 1t is sad TO
see ship destroyed madripores? How
much sadder to see man. ehewed up
with petty vanities and vices until he
erumbles as from dry rot! Many man
would valianty resist great temptation,
and put his foot upon a visible wicked
ness, who heeds not the, little peccadil-
loes and invisible shapes of evil, which
steal upon him unawares, and complete
Iy honey comb his heart before he is
aware of their fatal gnawing. Beware,
not only ofgreat sins, but of every little tile
fault and foible' Every insect wee WIZ
be the parent of swarm OF vices, ana
the heart that gives room for the mother,
viii be tile TODD OF her inumerable off
spring. a't9ih ''7i.4 ".i'' - ''.'-. ~, ~
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