The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-10-05 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

PRESENT AND PAST. Nothing brings the contrast between present and past times more forcibly to view ;Ilan a comparison of the monster hotels of the present day, replete with every comfort, which are multiplying in London with such rapidit v. with the modest roadside inns of a century or two ago, or the old coaching inns with their courtyards full of life and hustle; or the newest restauranta with the modest chop or cuff's, houses of long ago. Inns were few six hundred years ago, in the reign of Edward 1., when three sufficed for the whole of London. Even in 1552. only forty were legally permitted in the metropolis then beginning to spread its boundaries on every ' side. The old inns of the Middle Ages were very homely affairs. The famous George Inn at Salisbury, the fifteenth century, posoerseil thirteen guest-chambers, each with three beds in it, a table on trestles, and some oaken benches. People ate and slept in the same apartment indiscriminately. Titled persons only enjoyed the luxury of sleeping on a hod, the commoners in those days being coutent with a Mattress only. One of the oldest inns patronised in recent times by royal personages is the Golden Cross at Ratisbon. In its visitors' book, started in IS7O are the names of the old Emperor William of Germany, the Emperor Fredenek. the Emperor and Empress of Austria, and the Emperor of Brazil. Charles V. stayed in it. in ink:. Vice-Admiral Sit John Arbuthnot Fischer, with a squadron consisting of eleven battleships,has arrived at Salonica. . Arthur Angell, aged twenty-five, clerk at the Great Northern Railway Hotel, King's-cross, has died at the hospital from internal injuries received owing to being run over at King's-cross. A leading physician says that pepper is deadly imissa to the system. In Bavaria es,fi fr 111 l lb' 011 Ear-ter Sunday briegs to 11,.' eirti.e,y t.. d a ,orinetdo neh. wb ..•., oto:r h rie;, i. tr. r•• !.. 1. r sl, .r. ea viled ler,"•• ii, lie I:ti,! it tile •••••t. ~1 l tic ;.:14.4.1.1.13 :1.Z.1i11,i 1'..W.1ti., Mrs. Humphries, of Athens, in Texas State, has obtained judgment for 10.000dol. damages against one of the lynchers who had a hand in the murder of her husband. Albert Joseph Ilzyball, aged twenty-nine, a clerk, living at Crystal l'alace-road, was discovered lying in bed on Saturdat morning shot through the brain. His right hand clutched a revolver. Be had complained of pains in the head for some time. " Would yen like a sonata before d" r?" twit' lite nutsienl Itost.etet to the gentletoots of bilsoi3OS I slolcitelef.t. .. Well, I don't. sold he, " I I.:I.1 two on toy woy heir, Ina I holio,e I van Atm.! ittioti,.....' --• lie %looking out at the window): "Ws no bright. and cheerio! within and so cold and gloomy without." She : '• W ithout what, '! " He: " Why, without you, tkatuat." Be: "A fellow called me a donkey to my /see yestertlay." Site: "I should like to marry a man like that." He t Why ?'' She r " Heorase lie has the courage u. Id. oun%:lll:ciforrgernkt :t..o‘ ir:lrtf:a-ari7"t6nttiltrito eunr":4.l°.lifegn-ils::1"7. I Mr. Peck: " And yet they call altaentinindedese a misfortune." "It takes my wife three days to go to a piu•nin." "Ilow'a that ?" "Eitta lakes a day LO pc ready, a day LO go, and a day to gat over it.;