Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-01


10 have frost on the outside OF the glass.
and there were scores uf coiored walters,
every Que Of them looking like Juiep
Jacob, Who were bringing platters OF grid
dlc-cakos. Every grIddle-cake changed 10
julep as soon as II was put down on tue
table.
There vas evidently no use of tarrying
at the breakfast-table, especially rs one
side of the breakfasf-room was rising up IN
the air aud the other side had taken to
sinking at an increasing rate. OF speed.
The waters walked on this hoor at go
angle of As degrees es II it were level, and
the dishes on the table showed no inclina-
ton 10 slide off, although the table was
standing on one leg at the time.
There was german that morning, and
the young man intended to dance 1t. Tie
went out on the lawn to let tho sun SHINE
on him end to think over the situation.
While he was on the lawn the birds. which
were singing when be took bis seat on the
bench, grew 10 be the size Of chickens and
made an awful noise. The twigs on which
thew were perched would have broken II
they had not grown in size, too.
The german was due at 10 O'Clock. Inc
Young man went over and danced one
waltz. 1t was hard to get to the end OF the
ballroom where the musicians sat, because
it was all up hill. but on the way back it
was very easy, because the floor was we'll
vaxed and the grade was stiff. OF course.
il was no use trying to dance german IN
n room with one end Of the floor ten
or fifteen feet higher than tho other, so
the young man went away, 10 JOIN
poker party. There were juleps at tho
poker party. but he did not touch them;
He drank two pitchers of ioe-water and
plaved poker tor some time. The cards
seemed to come straight into his hand, and
when he had big hand some one else
ALWAYS had hand q little smaller. he
asked one of his friends if there was any,
thing the matter with him. The friend re-
plled that there was not, except that he
was playing great deal better game or
poker than usual.
COLOSSAL IN SIZE.
From the poker game he went down to
the hot bath. That, too, had grown IN
size. The hot bath looked like colossal
iulep, He sat there and was boiled an
hour. After the hot bath he went up to
his room and put on his best clothes. Then
he went and sat down under the trees and
looked at the sky. Everything was bliss
full. The juleps of the night before were
in a foreiving mood and tried TO make up
| for their dolngs of the morning. SO long
as he sat there everything was right. eE-
! ceut that the birds would persist IN grow
ing to enormous sizes and IN ASKING one
anOJher 10 20 anu Seuu VuioP "@S|N "P'AA
| the lawn.
In the evening there was ball, and the
young man went over to the dance. lie
! had expected that the hotel employees
would have Strengthened out the ballroom
| floor by evening. but the disproportion be-
! tween the height of the ends still existed,
| except that the end away from the music
was the higher. 1t was great slide from
| there down 10 the orchestra. AS the floor
| n l. 49,. a Ne aIt "a N
who had slid down could get back without
! the aid OF windlass.
I hat night he went up to his room and
meditated. He went 70 bed, but there
| was little sleep on account OF the CONVEX
sation of the birds on the trees outside.
Every little while during the night one
bird would ask another bird to go down 70
the gambling-house and try lulep., The
young man had not taken q drink during
| the day except one cup of coffee and three
pitchers of water. Every glass or water
made him worse. 1t had the same effect
that another drink would have upon one
who had taken seven or eight drinks
already.
MONOCHROME.
The next day the Same thing took place
again. He consulted with several or his
! friends end asked them whether there was
ANYTHING abnormal or unnatural about
HIM or anything else. They assured him
that there was not, and that he had done
nothing unseemly or showed in any way
the effects of the mint-juleps, except that
he had been playing surprisingly
good poker-game. The grlddle-cakes,
the ballroom, and the birds acted IN the
Same way that day as the day before. The
third day this sort of thing became mo-
notonous. There was no fun in doing
nothing except drinking ice-water AND
seeing griddle-cakes transform themselves
into mint-juleps, sparrows the slze oil
| chickens asking each other to go down &c
the gambling house and take q drink
and bathrooms which were continually
fitting.
In tho evening he concluded no would
90 to New York, where things were nor
NAL, unless they had changed while he wa:
away. He got back TO New York IN the
evening of the fourth day, without having
taken drink of anything except lce-watel
or coffee for three days and half. The
effect os the juleps was beginning to weal
of: the iolting of the train may have haC
something to do with putting things. &c
rights 1t was an experience which be hs'
never cared to repeat
[The Jacob referred to above is Jake
Stannsrd. who is well known in Rich
mond. -DIsPATCH.