Evening star., 1894-04-03
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

"They have a new wrinkle down IN ST.
Augustine for beating the license devil
around the stump when II comes to selling
liquor" said F. o. North at the Arlington
last night. 81 have been down in Florida
spending some weeks. When I reached the
hotel 1 stopped at in st. Augustine was
fatigued and needed a stimulant, but could
find no signs of bar l went to the clerk
and made inquiries He informed me the
town was dry but that he reckoned he
could make me a member Of the club
which would permit me to internally irri-
gate whenever l felt so inclined. He asked
me how long 1 was going to remain. and
when 1 replied that 1 didn't know. he re-
marked that he would make me a $50 men,
ber.' Then he gave me a book and key.
The book contained number Of coupons,
ranging in stated value from 10 cents to a
dollar, amounting in all to SO. 1t was eX-
planned that 1 should either pay over $50
or have 1t placed in my account, and when
l departed the amount represented by the
coupons then remaining in the book would
be returned to me- That suited me all right,
and 1 asked what the key was for. l was
shown downstairs to door, which the key
opened. 1t led to a fully equipped bar, pre-
sided over by an accomplished professor or
Mythology. When l got drink he took out
a coupon representing its cost but could not
receive money. l learned that the reason
for this cute scheme was that a liquor
license for a hotel cost $1,000 year in st.
Augustine, and as the season only lasts two
months the hotels cannot afford to pay 1t.
The Ponce de Leon does, however, and Is
the only hotel there that keeps an open bar.
! have been introduced to the ice chests in
notes at Portland, Me-, but there was
novelty that was refreshing about the sys-
tenn that is worked in San Augustine"
Il suppose we doctors will be next trans
planting limbs from devoted human beings
to the objects of their ardor who have been
so unfortunate as to lose theirs" said DR.. L.
X. Goodrich of Springfield, with a facetious
smile, at the Ebbitt this morning. Serious
ly speaking, the advance of surgery in the
art of supplying lost portions of one human
body by taking pieces of the flesh from
another has been wonderful 1 have lust
been reading an interesting story that comes
from abroad 1t runs that a Belgian work
man got drunk recently and was put in the
lookup at Chantilly, France in a helpless
condition In the cell with him a man was
also locked who had the delirium tremens
No sooner had the door been closed when
the last prisoner attacked the workman with
vicious ferocity and bit off large portions of
both of his ears. The assalant was a me-
cnanlcal engineer named Marchant and
when he came to his senses and learned
what he had done, he pleaded to be taken to
the hospital to ask the forgiveness of his
victim. The latter was in bed at the
Bicetore Hospital in Paris, and when Mar
chant got there the attending physician ask
ed him if he would not like to give the suf-
terer his ears back. Marchant said he would
do anything to accomplish such a result
and gladly aSsented to the surgeons suR-
gestion that he should allow two small slips
of flesh to be cut from his arm. The pieces
were removed, shaped as nearly as possible
to the likeness of ears and attached to the
wounded places. The story closes with the
cheerful intelligence that the operation
proved entirely successful"
II reckon almost every one recollects the
sensation that was created over the coun.
try when Cora Belle Fellows married
Chaska, the Sioux Indian" said Walter
Miller OF Sioux City at the Riggs House
yesterday. well, their course of true love
DIDN'T run as smooth sealskin by any
means. The couple located in Nebraska
and while Cora entered upon the marriage
duties, such as cooking the meals and
mending Chaska's duds with proper con-
scientiousness and humility her liege lord
found the yoke irksome. Two papooses
were born to them, and then the Injun
sighed for the unrestrained freedom he had
known before he electrified the public with
MS aIllance-or mesalance-and he skipped
out, leaving Cora alone with her offspring
1t is said he went up into the northern
country and welded a squaw of his own
nation, who didn't object to assisting him
TO commit bigamy. At any rate. Mrs.
had when she was Cora Belle Fellows.
II there is any moral in that Information
You can fashion 1t out in your own way"
Observers around Wizards on Saturday
were struck by the remarkable change that
had taken place in the complexion Of Ber-
ry, the 3S5-pound porter, who wrestles
with the trunks OF the guests. superintends
the squirting of the afternoon hose and
makes himself generally useful and alto
gether popular in the hosiery. Berry's
smooth and amplitudinous skin is naturally
the color of fresh roasted coffee but on
Saturday it was suggestive of Mississippi
river water at Memphis-an uncertain choc-
olate copously charged with milk The
habituai stolidity of Berry was also lack
ing. His fingers twitched nervously and
every now and then a shud9er would shake
his figure, and it is scarcely necessary TO
state that ii requires pretty energetic
shudder TO move a mountain of humanity
like that.
The cause of these remarkable phenomena
was Offlcer Bob Sutton. He wrote some
numbers on a piece OF paper and decorated
1t with untranslatable hieroglyphics, until