The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-30
SOME PECULIAR TIPS.
Proving the Adage That All That
GIitters Is Not Gold.
From the Boston Traveller.


From the Boston Traveller.
Tips do not always take a monetary
form, as some strange instances reveal.
waiter in a provincial restaurant used
always to attend to the wants of a GER
tain old gentleman for good reason.
This peculiar person would be attended
by no other member or the swallowtal
fraternity The favored waiter never re-
ceived tip, but the diner always as
sured him that he would give him some
thing handsome at the end of the year.
Thus constantly reminded, the wants of
the eccentric one were cheerfully re-
sponded to, and the waiter, learning his
peculiarities, always contrived to have
a particular table vacant for him. To-
ward the close of the year the assistant
was requested to pay a personal call at
the genueman's home, when he proposed
to reward him for so faithfully attending
TO his innumerable eXactions. Imagine
his delight when he was informed that
he could furnish his home at his benefac-
tors expense-the latter being a furniture
dealer in a large way-and was presented
with a list of articles sufficient to satisfy
the most ambitious young husband. The
recipient was dOubly pleased a the form
of the gift, for, being anxious to marry,
he was only debarred this happiness
through an insutiicieney of the needful.
How the giver had OWNED his secret
he did not relate but it was evident his
interest in the waiter had extended be-
yond the restaurant.
a gentleman requested a guard to re-
serve him a first-class compartment, as
he wished to write some letters during the
journey, and their Importance necessi-
tated that he should be undisturbed. He
was locked in, and assured that nobody
Oh civ -,
small package done up in brown paper.
and requesting the guard not to open it
until he got home The disgust Of the
guard was great when he discovered that
the package contained nothing but news
paper cuttings, Of no possible use to him.
These We're dispatched to the owner
whose address was scrubbed on some Of
them, and the sender expected to hear
nothing more of the strange gift. BY
next post, however, he received a note Of
explanation and postal order for S.
The newspaper cuttings had been given
over instead of purse Of silver, q fit Of
abstraction being responsible for this.
Perhaps one Of the strangest tips on
record was an offer of marriage which a
gentleman made to a waitress some years
ago. It was reported that he informed
her he couldn't afford to tip walters. but
that, if she had no objection. she might
take himself. At any rate. she accepted
him. and retired from her post at the
table
For period OF three weeks a tall pale
faced gentleman lunched at a restaurant.
but did not tip the waiter, despite the
fact that he was a most fastidious GUS
toner, and especially considered for his
own account. The last time he lunched
he gave the waiter a small buckle for
his belt saying that he had nothing disc
to bestow, but that If DE sold It he would
realize a sum that would pay him for his
trouble. On examination Il was pronounc-
ed 10 be gold, and the recipient was the
richer by 81, which was given him by a
goldsmith 10 whom lac offered IL Tor sale.