The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-12
4 HOTEL LIZ E ABROAD.
Humorous Incidents Related by a
s Traveller.
4 Walters Blu for Slaps IN the Face-AD
NJ. r. with Delirium Tremens-The
Commotion Created by an
Earthquake.


y. Some time ago French waiter was
attending upon a very registering party
of diners in private room at a London
restaurant, when an alteration arose
and the waiter attempting to restore or
der received a couple of slaps In the
face. He made no remark at the time
but when he brought in the bill there
was on it this item: 'Deux sonff1ets,
IS" AS the aggressor scanned this en-
try the waiter set his lips and said in a
significant tone: eff you find those
slaps too dear, sir, will return themP'
once spent a remarkable night in a
hotel at Belgium, owing to the antics
Of a man with delirium tremens, says
writer in the London Graphic. The
Servians have an abonninable liquor dis
titled from fermented cabbage The
mere smell is enough to turn an English
stomach, but the natives swill the stuff
until some times it adde's their heads.
The killer of my nights rest was
member of the Servian skuptschina or
parliament, who had come to Belgrade
ON some place-hunting expedition and
had found the excitement, com.
bined with the cabbage liquor too
much for him. Awaking in the
middle of the night with fit
of the horrors he began flinging
boots, brushes, crockery and money at
She door which separated our two
rooms. ! went out into the passage
and found a throng OF gentlemen in
their nightshirts. Most of them were
for allowing the fit to spend itself, I'M
til somebody suggested that the M. p.
might set fire to the house. Then they
altered their minds, vanished to put On
their neither garments, and reappeared
ready for action A series Of thumps
on the delirious ones door caused him
to open it, when spring was made
upon him by half dozen men together.
Such yells as the M. P. uttered I never
heard from any other human being,
and the bumps which, be got as he was
carried, kicking and foaming, down the
staircase to the courtyard, were enough
to make one shudder. The mans
wooden head seemed to come into col
Gsion with every knob and angle on
the. way. At last his captors got him
into the stone trough of a fountain and
turned wide-mouthed, powerful wa
1ercock Oh him till he was nearly
was drowned. When he could yell no
longer, but only gasp, they tore his
only garment dripping from his back,
cuffed him and smaclzed him unmerci"
fully with their huge brown palms,
bound him hand and foot with wisps of
hay, and finally flung him quite ex.
tinct into the loose box Of a cowshed.
T thought the man must have been
killed. Great was my relief, therefore.
when on the very next evening be-
held him sitting in the cafe of the hotel
with one Of the men who had doctored
him in the approved national fashion.
He looked a little g1oggy 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 1888 occurred, was aws.k'
ened by shock which dashed two pic,
lures off the wall OF my room and upset
the washstand. While was striking
match another shock strewed me and
some chairs among some fragments OF
broken crockery. mad presence OF
mind enough to remember that during
an earthquake you are no safer in the
streets than you are III a covered build
inc, SO | dressed without mad precipi-
fancy, and after. desperate struggle
to open my door which had got
iarnmed walked downstairs. The
sight was one never to be forgotten
Men. women and children in deshabiile
were huddled in the front hall, crying
shrieking and praying. Some hat
bolted out of doors with hardly any
clothes on, and had made for the sea
where they clamored TO be rowed out
in open boats-about the worst thing
they could do Among the panic-strlck'
en- folk was an old gentleman in
Nv iamas, who had come down the stairs
three steps at time. But on reaching
the hall he exclaimed that he had for
gotten something and must go back.
His friends shouted to him that the up
per stories were dangerous; but he
turned deaf ear, bounded upstairs
and presently returned painting The
thing which he had forgotten was his
set of false teeth!
a R0val Eeer,