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A Scene At The Grand Central Hotel, N. Y.

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Day
29
Month
August
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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No one who has visited Europe will fail to appreciate the following : A prominent BoBton gentleman, a proprietor of one of the leading Boston Dailies, had just arrived in the steamer :rora Europe, and met with a New York friend, while registering his namejn the exchange of the Grand Central Hotel. The New Yorker evidently expects to liear the usual glowing ;ale of those fresh from the tour, and begins hus : " Hallo, Charley ! Glad to see you back ! fïow-d'you enjoy yourself, oíd fellow ? Have a good time ? " " Good time," grumbled Charey, " I'm so glad to get back, I can't tell ! I've íad nothing to eat since I've been away. Primes and sour wine going, and prunes and sour wine coming. Sick as a dog, at that ! London - bloody beef and cold mutton, ale and :og. Paris - Sour wines and fancy crmnbs. jtermany, etc. - bitter beer, sour wine, and ïeaven knows what in the dishes, Taverne - candlee, and paid service everywhere. Not a first-class sensible hotel like this anywhere, to say nothing of the pnce. Thank the Lord I'm lome again I " " But the steamer ! the ocean ? " suggested Charley's friend. " Prunes and sour wine I tell you," cried Charley. " Let'i go up ;airs and get somethiug to eat." And they isappeared in the elevator to tha evident musement, not to say gratification, of mine íost Powers and of a number of other gentleen who had thus heard European and Amerian hotels so summarily and truthfully criticised and the Grand Central " brought to the h-ont " in such few words. Db. Kansom's Hive Syrup and Tolu, ob oney Syrup, is not a quack medicine. It is irepared by a regular physician of over twenty 'ears' practice, who used it many years with reat success in his large practice for the cure i Croup, Coughs and Colds, araong the children, nd nearly all of his families kept the medicine n the house to be ready for a suddeii attack. ünly 35 cents. Toothaohe. - Moisten a bit of cotton with Dr. [iller's Magnetic Balm, put it into the cavity of ie tooth or on the gum by the side of it, and athe the face with the Balm, and it will troule you no more. 25 ets. pays for a bottle of the 3alm, See advertisement in another column.

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Old News
Michigan Argus