The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-12-03
HOTEL LIFE ABROAD.
Humorous Incidents Related by y
Traveller.
A Walters Bill for slaps IN the Face-A,
AI. p. with Delirium Tremens The
Commetion Created BY an
Earthquake.

Earthquake.
Some time ago French waiter etss
attending upon very registering party
OF diners in a private room at Lond6n
restaurant, when an alteration aroge
and the waiter attempting to restore o.
der received couple OF slaps In the
face. He made no remarh at the time,
but when he brought in the bill there
was on it this item. "Deux souiiletA
E5" As the aggressor scanned this en-
try the waiter set his lips and said In u
significant tone. ''lf you find thOHe
slaps too dear, sir. ] will return themf'
once spent remarkable night in n
hotel at Bclg;n,n. owing TO the anttes
of man with dc!iriuin treinens. says n
writer in the London Graphic Tho
Scrvians have an abom,nabe liquor dis
titled froin fefinenied cabbage The
mere smell is enough To turn an English
stomach, but the Eatives swill the stnn
until sometimes IL midles their heas,s.
The killer cf my nights res; was u
member of The Scrviau sisuptschina o.
parliament, who had come to Belgrade
on some place-hunting expedition and
had found the excitement, com
bincd with the cabbage liquor too
much for him Awaling In tho
middle OF the nigh, with f.
Of the horrors he began flinging
boots, brushes. croekcry and money M
the door which separated our two
rooms. went out into the passage
and found throng Of gentlemen In
their nig,itsllrts. Most Of them were
for allowing the flt To spend itself nm
til somebody suggested that the. NJ y
might set fire to the honse Then they
altered their Ellntis, vanished to put On
their neither garments. and rccppeareta
ready for acton A series of thumps
on the delrious ones Goor caused frfns
to open it. when spring was made
upon hin, by half dozen iaen together.
Such yclis ;:s, thc NJ = uttered never
heard fror, any other human being.
and the t;l,lrrs which he got as he Was
carried, kic..iag and foan,ing. down tho
staircase tn the courtyard. were enongb
to make one sauddcr The man's
wooden head seemed to como into col
lision with every knob and angle On
the. way. 1T last his captors got hins
into the stone trough of "a fountain and
turned u wide moutllcd, powerful WA
tercock on him till he was nearly
was drowned. When he could yell pe
longer, bnt only gasp, they tore his
| only garment dripping from his back.
| cuffed him and s,nacked him unmere,-
fully with their huge brown palms.
bound him hand and foot with wisps Of
| nxl Ia;
| tinct into the loose box Of n cowsheA
| ! thought the man must have been
| killed. Great was my relief, therefore.
| when on the very neXt evening De-
held him sitting in the cafe of the hotel
with one of the men who had doetored
him in the approved national fashion.
He looked n little groggy about the
eyes, but was having another ''go" OF
his favorite cabbage stuff
| AS to the earthquake, : was staying
on the Riviera when the famous con-
vulsion of 1883 occurred was awak-
ened by shock which dashed two pic
lures of the wall of my room and upsea
the washstand. While was strili ing "a
match another shock strewed me and
some chairs among some fragments Of
| uTohcH CToCHCiy iiiVi PECsSiCc Ob
mind enough to remember that during
an earthquake you are no safer in tho
streets than you are in a covered build
ing, so ! dressed without mad precipt
fancy, and after desperate struggle
to open my door which had goa
jammcd walked downstairs The
sight was one never 10 he forgotten.
Men, women and children in deshamite
were hud,ilcd in the front hall, crying
shriehing and praying Some ha.
bolted out Of doors with hardly any
clothes on, and had made for the sea.
where they clamorcd to be rowed on,
in open boats--about the worst thing
they could do Among the panic-str,ek-
en- folk was an old gentleman IN
pyjamas, who had come down the stars
three steps at time But on reaching
the hall he exclaimed that he had for.
gotten something and must go back.
Ills friends shouted to him that the up-
per stories were dangerous; but no
turned deaf ear, bounded upstairs
and presently returned painting Tho
thing which he had forgotten was his
set of false teeth!