Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-03-15

vibration used to entail a loss of from
$40 to $50 II It occurred at meal times,
as In the general stampede no one
thought Of the ceremony of paying
but q wooden bar Is now always In
readiness to be thrown across the door
way, and check the rush.
The Miners Resiaarant.
Within fifty yards of the What Cheer
House is the Miners Restaurant, which
bids fair soon to be known all over the
coast nearly as we'll rs Its rival. If the
Miners has a popularity, it Is that of
being too pretentious. 1t promises
more to the eye and performs less to
the palate than any other cheap res
tauIrant in the city. It has nm amusing
way Of pretending to believe that Its
patrons are epicures-epicures under a
cloak, it may be, but still epicures-
and the list Of ten cent dishes with
high-sounding titles on Its bills Of fare
would lead q stranger to imagine that
he had strayed into a San Francisco
TrOis Freres or Delmonico's. The
Miners has always a most tempting
display In its windows. Viewed from
the street, its cakes seem all plum, its
hams look like Westphalian, its cold
meats fit food for any Christian stom-
ach in the land. But on the inside
they become cakes and hams of another
color. | tried them OH Saturday, and
they tried me, and so I speak from cx-
perience. It is not worth while re-
counting the tale. | called for every
thing that | had never heard of before,
from Sedan soup to Bourbaki pudding
with sauce q la Gdnbettd, and from
beefsteak Lenten style to mushrooms
with Madeira, until at last the waiter
eyed me suspiclously. Whether he sus-
pected that | was experimenting on q
new mode of sniclde or outrunning my
eXchequer I have not yet determined,
but he certainly thought / was IN
idiot-in which | fully concur.
The Milapese
we will call 1t the Milanese restau-
rant, though that Is not Its name-was
the establishment mentioned In a fol-
mer letter a. being the representative
of its class. It's characteristics rs then
noted are Ice, French bread and Italian
walters, but it makes a speciality Of its
wine, and owes Its fame to that more
than to anything else. A glance Is
sufficient to tell the passer-by that the
Milanese ignores pork and beans and
knoweth not pumpkin pie. Pork and
beans have not so far forgotten them
selves as to associate with frog, and
there is frog Enthusiastically In the win
dow. That frog has surveyed Clay
street through a glass globe for twenty
months to my knowledge. Some say
that 1t has been there longer-that 1t
Is the original Jumping Frog, made
famous by Mark Twain, and condemned
in consequence of Its shortcomings oil
the occasion Of that memorable bet to
DO imprisoned for the term Of Its nat
ural life within the sound of the cooks
spit, and afraid to croak, lest the doing
so should remind the chef Of Its exist
ence. I do not believe this yarn,
though 1t Is certainly q patriarch frog,
but rather imagine it Is intended to
frighten off New Englanders, In place
of the Inscription, "All We who onter
here leave pork and beans behind"
The motto or the Milanese Is "Half
dollar dinners for the million" and its
half dollar dinners r very popular.
The number of mysterious little dishes,
all tasting very good, but which one
has to receive OH faith, from not know
ing what they arc composed Of Is
something marvellous for the money.
After tho soup and fish it Is n "leap In
the dark" until you pull up ut coffee,
which can generally be recognized.
But what Is swallowed IN tho interim
Is seldom fathomed; and If ono could
get that head cook drunk-as | have
heard 1t proposed-and whccdle the
mystery of those middle dishes out OF
him, | don't think that the most suS-
ceptible stomach would feel bad at the
recital. Everything about the Milan
csc Is spotlessly clean even the frog
looks we'll washed; and | would
aooner tal;p one OF Its culinary compo-
sltions on trust than many other res
taurants' openly proclaimed courses.
Wine, howeyer-but the wine must
be reserved for another letter.
JACK HonNER.