Smyrna times., 1890-12-17
A Curlous Wager.

curious wager is at present occupying
the attention of such widely separated
classes as our young nOblemen and the
/ Association of Hotel and Restaurant
Walters in this capital. Several of the
/ young sciOnS of the highest Austrian
Arlstocracy, who were accustomed to dine
| in an old hotel of high repute in the
karnthner strasse, took exception to the
practice of the walters, most of whom
| nave seen twenty to thirty years ser,
vice, in dressing their mustaches in Just
The same fashion as the noble swells"
! they had to serve. One of the high born
customers accordingly laid wager,
which was immed ediately accepted, that
within given time the Objectionable
adOrnm"nt should disappear from the
upper llps OF the walters in all tho fash
i0nable hotels aud restaurants in Vienna.
otherwise the prOpoSer himself was to
shave off his own establishment for a
given period.
In order To effect his purpose the latter
commenced by trying to persuade the
hotel keeper in the Karnthner strasse to
forbid all his servants wearing mus
taches on penalty of losing his aristo-
cratic customers. In this case he sue
cecded, butthe walters, who were mostly
married men, one after another gave
at once replaced by younger men. who.
for consideration, submitted to the i'm
posed humiliation.
The same thing happened in a number
Of other hotels and restaurants, and the
wager was nearly won by the lawyer.
when the proprietor of the Hotel Inner
lal, the first hotel in Vienna, fatty re-
fused to comply with the whim of the
Vienna jeIuleSse dOres, whom he told out
right that if they deserted his house he
should readily find better customers
The case was also taken up "as matter
of right and honor" by the Association
OF Waters, which threatened to expel
from the society any member degrad-
ing himself by humoring aristocratie
capriccs in this matter London Stand
ard.
Tumble Weeds stopped the Train.
Probably most Of the readers of the
Oregonian have seen or heard of the
tumble weed, but for the benefit of anv
who have not it may be said that il is n
Oushy plant CROWN" eighteen inches to
two feet in height, having a small root
and the branches all curving inward at
The top, giving the full-grown weed a
-.ooular shape. These weeds grow and
flourish on Summer-fallowed lands in
along the line of the Oregon and Wash
lngton Territory Railroad between
Hunt S Junction and Pendleton. In the
Fall when the summer fallow is needed
the harrows tear up these weeds, but as
they are tough and wiry and are not
broken up much, they lio around on the
fields like balls. The first wind starts
the tal.s rolling, and away they 20 for
the first fence OF railroadcut. The line
above mentioned is not fenced. and a
short time ago these weeds piled into
the cuts on it about Helix, in some
places as high as the headlight of the
engine, and on account of their being
crushed under the wheels and "greas-
Ing the track they held "A train loaded
With stock all night on the line. A gentle
man who was on the train says that the
weeds coming skipping over the banks
into cut in the dusk of evening looked
for all the world like a band Of sheen fol-
lowing their leader into the cut.