New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-25
TIE JOYS OF HOTEL LIFE.
From The London Graphic.


some time ago a French walter was attending upon a
very registering party of diners IN private room at
tbe waiter attempting to restore order, received a
couple Of slaps in the face, he nanc no cmark at
r. this item "Deux souIies ST. As the aggressor
scanned this entry the waiter set MS Fps ana sad IN
significant tone :" II you find those saps too DEAR
once spent a remarkable night in hotel at Bel
grade owing to the antics Of man with dellrium
tremens The servans have an ab9minabe liquor
distilled from fermented cabbage. The mere smell
Is enough 20 turn an English stomach but the natives
swill the stuff until sometimes il adde's their heads
The killer Of my nights rest was member OF the
Belgrade on some placehuntlns expedition and had
found the Excitement, combined with the cabbage
lie night with fit OF the horrors, he began hlncing
boots brushes, crocNery and money at the door which
passage and found thong OF gentlemen In their night
shirts. Most of them for allowing the tit to spend
set fire 10 the house. Then they altered their minds
vanished to put their neither garments, aud reap
deirOus One's door caused him to open 1t, when a
spring was made upon him by halfa-dozen men to-
from any other human being. and the bumps which he
got as he was carried, kicking and foaming down the
shudder. The mans wooden head seemed 10 come
into collision with every knob and angle on the way
fountain, and turned widc-niOuthed powerful water
cock on him. iii he nearly drowned. When he
sSTmsHt dripping from his back, cuffed him and and
smached him numerically with their huge brown
and finally flung him quite extinct into the loose box OF
a cOw-sled. | thought the must have been
killcdgreat my relief therefore. when on the very
next evening beheld him sitting in the cafe OF the
hotel with of the men who had dOctOred him in
the approved national fashion. lie looked a LITTLE
grocgy about the eyes but was having another COS
Of his favOrite cabbage stuff.
As to the earthquake, ! staying on the Riviera
when the famous CONFUSION OF 1898 occurred I WAS
awakened by a shock which dashed two pictures on
the wall Of my room and upset the washhandstand
While / striking match another shock strewed
and some chairs among some fragment, OF broken
crockery. had presence OF mind enough 10 remember
that during an earthquake vOh are no safer in The
streets than In covered building: dressed without
mad precipsncy, and. after desperate struggle IN
open my dOor-whlch had got iammed-walkcd down.
Men. women, and children in deshabie were huddled
IN the front hall, crying. slrcdng aud praying some
had b0ed out OF doors with hardly any clothes on and
had made for the sea, where they clalnorrd To be
rOwed out In open hOaisab0ut the worst thing they
could do Among the panic strokeH folk was an old
gentleman In pyjamas, who had come down The
stairs three steps at time. But on reaching lie
hall he exclaimed that he had forgotten somethnr and
must 90 back. His friends shouted 10 him that the
upper stories were dangerous but he turned deaf ear
bounded upstairs and presently returned painting
teeth -
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