The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-08-11
EXPENSIVE EGGS
An Msthetic Engriehmarfs Extsoup.
dinary Experience
Hs Purchases Q Hotel IN OrdeP 10 O.
Things COOKED TO Suit Him, Bu1
Binns Il Losing In.

There Is working ON the OslffUuda
street ca.ble system a man who has bad
considerable ups and downs as thss
world goes He earns two dollars ane
Atty cents day as conductor. but thezS
was time when he had an inco1nS -
times as great, and he did no< haSe =
work for It, either, says th6 San 1faur
cisco Examiner.
The boys ON the road call him Lord"
Harrington Whenhe asked for aplace
ae an extra man he told the superin-
tendent that his name was Harringtou
Before he had been On the line o weeh
he was unaninsously dubbed "LorT
Harrington and all on accCunt of his
looara, speech and action 1t is known
that he is very highly connected IN Eng
land, how high Is left TO conjecture, e
under no consideration WI he 63eAEhe
ewosd that will tend In anyway toxheda
ray of light on hts antecede1ts and past
history.
The one story known abuuS him wss
told by an Engiislrnen Hasned De
Gchmid, who worked ons the came csb3s
line for two wealh pesAcAfnd -
the story to illustrate apoant IN his own
disastrous career.
According to De 6chmid Harrington
went TO a Florida we4ering resostsAost.
ly after his arrival ~ this countEAV
years ego. What his peal Dame - q
one knew; everybody knew. hote~eA
that he had lately come into q lat4e te
heritance and wee rolling Ia ntea&
Gossip said he visited the F1orida waA1-
ing place 10 recuperaoe his shattered
health. +E!Fft III ~
He had been at the hotel for eight
days and for eight days he had ordered
hard-boiled eggs, but each morning the
waiter urbanely returned with the eggs
boiled medium" Every morning Har-
rington had explained at great length
that he wanted the eggs cooked that
way in order to slice them and treat
them after the fashion of the natives of
the Higher Hydrabad But the cobored
waiter stoically ignored the order and
steadfastly brought In the eggs boiled
medium. On the eighth morning Har
rington lost patience and angrily sent
for the proprietor.
why are my eggs not boiled as o.
dered2" he demanded
The proprietor shrugged hts Shout
ders Eggs boiled medium are good
enough for anybody" was all he vouch-
safed 81 like them that way, and I'm
running this hotel to suit myself. N
''Then cannot get hard eggsS" do
manded the indignant guest
mot while I'm bossfng the place"
declared the independents American
landlord.
what do you ask fr the hotel9"
asked the Englishman.
"Thirty thousand dollars. was tho
prompt reply.
"I'll take it." replied the stranger.
snow, Sambo, give me hand-hoiled
eggs"
lively.
''Give the gentleman what he wants
now, Sam," was the reply. "He's boss
from now on
Harrington gave check for thirty
thousand dollars and spent twenty thou
sand dollars improving the premises in
order to give promising background to
the hard-boiled eggs sliced and treated
after the manner of the natives of High
er Hydrabad. But hts scheme never
worked. The end Of the season the
sheriff swooped down on the premises,
and they passed into the hands of man
who laughed to scorn sliced hard-boiled
eggs treated after the manner of the ma
tives of Higher HydIabad.
Harrington reach ed California some
how. He won't tell how. but it is sup
posed he raised enough means by selling
off his eytansive Upyf]role The naxt
known of him he was working local
cable line. He admits himself that he
wouldn't have lost the hotel and his
fifty thousand dollars if he had been
brought up in the tr ade
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