Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1881 — English Private Hotels. [ARTICLE]

English Private Hotels.

In London there is a kind of hotel of which we have no counterpart in the United States. This hotel is usually located in some semi-aristocratic side street, and wears no bodge of its servitude beyond a large, well-kept brass door-plate, bearing the legend ’‘Jones’ Hotel ” or “Brown’s Hotel,” as the case may be ; but, lie it Brown or Jones, he has been dead about silty years, and the establishment has been conducted by liobinsen. There is no coffee-room or public dining room, or even office in this hotel; the commercial traveler is an unknown quantity, there; your meals are served in your own apartments ; the furniture is solid and comfortable, the attendance admirable, the cuisine unexceptionable and the bill abominable. But for ease, quietness and a sort of 1812 odor of respectability, this hotel has nothing to compare with it in the wide world. It is here that the intermittent homesickness you contracted on the Continent will be lifted out of your bosom ; it is here will be unfolded to you alluring > vistas of the substantial comforts that surround the private lives of prosperous Britons. — B. T. Aldrich. Gems. Jewels in heraldry represent colors. The topaz represents or (gold) or the planet Sol. The pearl or crystal represents argent (silver) or the planet Luna. The ruby represents gules (red) or the planet Mars. The sapphire represents azure (blue) or the planet Jupiter. The diamond repeesents sable (black) or the planet Saturn. The emerald represents vert (green) or theplanet Venus. The amethyst represents purpure (purple) or the planet Mercury. And now that you have had a glimpse of jewels, I think it is time to lock up Hie casket. Dull. Maj. Dunnup—Awf’lly dull down here, isn’t it, Miss Mariah ? Miss Moria —Do you think so ? Why don’t you go, then? You’re a bachelor, and have only yourself to please. Maj. Dunnup —Only myself to please ! You don t know what a dwwddUUcult thing that is to dot