The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-26
HOTEL LIFE ABROAD.
Humorous Incidents Related by a
Traveller.
a Walters Bill for slaps IN tho race-An
nj. T.. with Delirium Tremcns-Tho
Commotion Created by an
Earthquake.

Some time ago French waiter was
attending upon very registering party
OF diners in private room ut London
and the waiter attempting to restore or
der received n couple of slaps in the
face. He made no remark ut the time.
but when he brought in the bill there
was on it this item: "Deux soufllcts.
G5." AS the aggrcssor scanned this en-
try tho waiter set his lips and said in n
significant tone: IF you find those
slaps too dear, sir, will return theml"
once spent q remarkable night in
hotel Mt Belgium, owing to the antics
of a man with delirium trcmens, says a
writer in the London Graphic The
Servians have an abominable 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 n
member of the Scrviap sliuptschna or
parliament, who had come to Belgrade
on some placc-hunting expedition and
had found the excitement, com.
bined with the cabbage liquor too
much for him. Awakinr in the
middle of the night with fit
of the horrors he began flinging
boots, brushes, croclscry and money at
the door which separated our two
rooms. | went out into the passage
and found throng of gentlemen in
their nightshirts. Most of them were
for allowing the fit to spend itself, un.
e. oil hot ., NJ ID
might set fire to the house. Then they
altered their minds, vanished to put on
their neither garments, and rcappeared
ready for action. A series of thumps
on the dclirious ones door caused him
to open il. when y spring was made
upon him by half u dozen men together.
Such yells as the M. p. uttered never
heard from any other human being
and the bumps which lie 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
lision with every knob and angle on
the. way. At last his captors got him
into the stone trough of fountain and
turned wide-mouthcd, powerful wa
tcrcocl on 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 smackcd him unmcrci-
fully with their huge brown palms,
bound him hand and foot with wisps of
hay, and finally flung him quite cx-
tinct into the loose box of cowshed
| 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 II little groggy about the
eyes, but was having another ''go" of
his favoritc cabbage stuff.
AS to the earthquake, was staying
on the Riviera when the famous con-
vulsion of 1888 occurred. was awak-
cncd by Shock which dashed two pic
lures off the wall of my room and upset
the washstand. While was striking a
match another shock strcwed me and
some chairs among some fragments of
broken crockcry | had presence OF
mind enough to remember that during
an earthquake you are no safer in the
OIL CClS Iilul y Ou tlIc III IL covered DuliQ-
ing, SO | dressed without mad precipi-
fancy, and after desperate struggle
to open my door which had got
damned - walked downstairs The
sight was one never to be forgotten
Men, women and children in deshabilc
were huddlcd in the front hall, crying
shriching and praying Some ha,
bolted out of doors with hardly any
clothes on, and had made for the sea
where they clamored to be rowed gu,
in open boats-about the worst thing
they could do. Among the panic strick.
en- folk was an old gentleman in
pyjamas, who had come down the stair.
three steps at q time. But on reaching
the hall he exclaimed that he had for
gotten something and must so 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!
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