Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-26

Then had the excitement of unpacking it
again when got back. In the afternoon
decided to take siesta, so that my voice
would be nice and smooth for the evening.
I put the bureau against the door, and,
taking down my hair, was soon in profuse
siumber.
At this moment the door was rudely burst
open by locksmith, who said that he had
come to put q new lock on the door and fit a
key to it This did not occupy over an
hour or so, and after that he went away
with the old lock, leaving the door aiar
while he got a new and more desirable lock.
fell asleep again then, for 1 was worn out
with the long and weary miles of railroad
travel.
They Never Rap Upon the Door.
Then came brigh. Young chambermaid
with fresh porous towel for the room. She
put her pass key into the door and turned it
two or three times They always do that,
whether there is any lock on the door or
not Even when the door isn't locked they
most generally sock pass key into the late
kevhole, and rattle two or three pounds of
brass key checks on the outside. They do
not knock-unless they have peered through
the keyhoIe and observed that the guest IS
dead. Then they knock timidly, shrink
and go away.
The chambermaid cannot understand why
a great big man should desire to OCCUPY his
room at the hotel during the day time.
That he should want to write or rest in his
room seems very morbid to most of them,
and q man does have to be pretty we'll worn
out in order to stay contentedly in the aver
age hotel room; but he. does sometimes get
where even a secondhand grave with q lock
on it would be welcome. But the room I
refer to was an aggravation in another way.
I could not get anybody to come when I
rang. People whom I did not care to see
dropped in every little while, but when 1
rang nobody came. a 'terward 1 was told
that had occupied what is called "the-
atricsl ROOM"
Took Nye for an Actor.
1--WE are Annoyed very much" said a
hotel clerk the other day, "by ! certain
kind Of actor-the one who PLAYS the smaller
parts on the stage, and who tries to manage
the universe between times. He generally
plays the part of the associate villain, or
the deathbed, or the unseaied doom, or
something like that, and at the hotel he ap-
pears as its first mortgage. Well, we give
him room that has an electric bell wire, but
it does not connect with the Office. 1t is at
that when he imagines he is ringing his bell
he is really grinding the coffee for break
fast. BY some mistake you were supposed
to be an actor-though anyone who had
ever seen you on the stage would know bet
ter than that-and SO you were given the
theatrical room."
And yet the death rate in Austin is very
highly spoken of. In 1887 it was fourteen
per thousand. In 1888 1t was twelve to the
thousand, and in 1889 it was only ten. 1
liked Austin very much indeed. There is
no malaria there, and the Legislature is
restricted by wholesom, sanitary regula-
tions, SO that Austin is a very healthful and
handsome place. The Capitol building has
a fame that is world wide. 1t is a very
handsome building, resembling the Capitol
at Washington, but built of beautiful
chocolate-colored stone instead OF marble.
1t Is Good for the Physique
The latitude Of Austin is the same as that
OF Jacksonville, Fla, and the climate is
peculiarly copious even at this season of the