Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-21
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS,

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cal world as delirium tremens and to care
less scoffers as the Jim jams is very much
like greatness" said Al Lewis. the we'll
known correspondent, at the Riggs House
the other night. 81 mean that some men
achieve the jms, while others have the
| state Of ultra wuzziness thrust upon them
| A friend of mine, who also writes burning
truths for the edfication of an admring
| constituency, went out to the mid-winter
exposition of San Francisco, while that gay
| and giddy combination of sweetness and
light and freaks and the provisional gov
| eminent was doing the shadow dance in the
| wake of the Chicago fair. He was one of a
party Of Chicago newspaper men, who had
| been invited out to see the show, and On the
! trip to the coast there was, as Is usual with
| such parties porter with a long mckee
bottle and a short shanked glass at the
beck and call Of each and every man. My
| friend had never been one of these four
| mile heat and repeat boozers, although ne
was pretty good when ii came to a sprint,
| and in small field for short distance he
/ was as liable to get a place as any entry in
/ the bunch But, as / remarked he had new
! er tried a long. steady, swinging gait with
John Barleycorn up and riding at weight.
Consequently, when he reached Frisco, after
/ eating a sugar-sprinkled railroad bun, to
| represent all the meals he should have
/ taken the trip, his nerves were not as
| stationary, SO to speak, as the Washington
monument. He took two or three pretty
! good drinks when he landed. but somehow
/ or other they didn't happen to reach the
| right spot, so he left the hotel and strolled
| down the street, thinking the air might do
! him some good. Noticing pretty large
| crowd on a corner near his hosiery, ne
sauntered toward it to learn the reason or
| its gathering, and discovered that bulletins
/ from the Corbett Mitchell prize fight were
! being received and posted up on a bulletin
board.
| HE took his position in the roadway on
/ the outskirts of the crowd and was watch
/ ing the board. when suddenly II moved
away from In front OF him. and carried the
| whole building along with II. Instantly he
decided that his alcoholic indulgence had
! affected his optical powers, but he deter
! LINED TO prove this theory to his perfect
/ 50 abstraction. So he walked back and caught
! UP with the building and the bulletin board
again, occupying what appeared 10 be about
/ the same spot he had relatively held be-
fore the building moved away. He had
scarcely read the next bulletin, which
caused the Corbett lovers to yell themselves
hoarse, when the buildings and bulletins
| moved up the street again He was abso-
lutely dumfounded and pretty near scared
to death, 50 he turned and looked down the
street AZ he had been amazed at that bull
! letin board leaving him you can imagine
| how horrified he must have felt when the
| whole street as far as his eye could reach
picked itself up and moved out OF his line
OF vision He didn't wait any longer to
make further tests. He struck a bee-line
| for his hotel and rushed to his room with
out even waiting for the elevator, tore OF
| his clothes, rang the call button and Jump
ed into bed. When the boy answered the
I summons he was sent post haste for
doctor. and pretty soon the man of medi-
| cine made his appearance. My friend told
the medleo a long story. Indeed, IL the
stranger had been a Catholic priest and
my friend a repentant sinner there couldn't
have been more full and free confession.
| He told him all about that trip from Chi
cago. and the various kinds, qualities and
Quantities of drink he had taken, as far
as he could remember. and then sorrow
lilly impaired to the doctor the Informal
ton that he believed he was on the verge
OF the worst Case of wiggle-waggles that
had ever contortei a bed post into a Ben
gal tiger. wearing a CRATES neck for a
tail, with a fve-mouthed lions head at the
end of 1t. and shaking all the :in :. The
| physician assured his new patient that
there We're no evidences of such ca
taStrophe imminent, that while his pulse
was excited and high, there was nothing
! TO indicate a serious arrangement of the
J nervous system, and there was certainly
! nothing to fear in the nature of the inns
but my friend was obstinate. He knew he
was going TO have them. and when the
doctor wanted to know the reason for this
knowledSe he up and told him how, not
/ only single buildings. but long lines of pop
/ Clous San Francisco streets had Just got
ten a move on them and Slid away from
nam without SO much as saying good bye or
| by your leave. strange hight CLEANED
from the doctors azure eve and he in
CURED whereabouts in the community his
patent mad been overtaken by these sup
posed optical decisions. The latter in a
| weak voice, Informed him tina; he had been
| looking at the Corbett- Mitchell bulletin
| board when he first became aware of his
approaching malady. Then the physician
lauShei merry laugh and leaned over
ana informed my fearful friend that he
had been standing on the cable car turn
! table, which Is situated in front of the
building where the bulletins were DISPLAYED
had arfx~f IL.
My friend gave shrek of gIee and the
/ hotel CLERK and bell boy wished they had a
! teieme in the mouse instead OF plain cleo
| trio bells. because No. 500 had drinks san,
! UP every ten minutes for the next hour and
q half. ana every one of them was different
/ from its predecessors"
"A queer divorce case will shortly come 20
triai in New jersey" said Arthur Griffith
OF Newark at Wormley's last night. .1t
grows out OF series of peculiar mistakes
that have something Enoch Ardenish about
them save in their denouement. MANY Yea re
ago Il man named Patrick Dowd lived near
Newark with his wife and three children
twenty seven years ago he left his family
ana nothing further was heard from him
until thirteen years afterward, when his
wife got letter from the police aI,thor,
ties of Louisville stating that her husband
had died there OF yellow fever The widow
shortly after receiving this intelligence
sold out her small holdings and went 10
England, where she married Thomas Hir
gins. "A year or two afterward Higgins
returned with her to New Jersey, ana they
settled at bloomfield. where he bought her
a house and lot and decided IL to ner
They were a very happy couple and moth
ing occurred to mar the serenity of their
lives until about three weeks ago Mr. Patrick
Dowd turned up. His wife recognized him
Immediately and tainted dead away After
acquainting Higgins with the relationship
he bore to the woman Dowd cooly told MIN
to take anything he might own out II
the house, because the residence suited
him to I, and he had come from Montana
to renew his acquaintance with his wife
Instead OF giving up, however, Higgins
got lawyer to protect his interests and
AIRS. Higgins Immediately got one too and
| has applied for divorce from Dowd en-
the grounds OF desertion. and the suit will
shortly be heard. She declares that the
only happiness she ever knew WAS since
she married Higgins, and Dowd swears that
II she prosecutes the suit he will have her
indicted for tigamy, about which the Jer-
sey laws, as l understand. are very strict.
IT appears that Dowd's children have
known of his whereabou all the time
but Kept the knowledge from their mother"
Washington has the best streets for BIZ
cycling in America" said r. S. Pomeroy of
Springfield at the Ebbtt yesterday, blu.
for the craze for the sport as well as the
practical application of the machine for