Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1875 — Something of an Appetite. [ARTICLE]

Something of an Appetite.

Falstaff’s unbounded stomach has found a rival. It is well known that in this city it is the practice of certain keepers of eat-ing-houses to encourage trade by selling six dinner tickets, a week’s supply, for two dollars, thus securing the money in advance, and giving the buyer carte blanche to order from the bill of fare as suits his fancy. As a rule thia is a paying business, but a case comes to our notice which threatens the unfortunate victualer with financial ruin. In an unguarded moment he disposed of a liberal supply of these dinner-tickets to a harmless-locking youth, who yesterday took his seat at the table and “waded in.” When he had finished his repast, a gentleman sitting nearby, who had taken the trouble to jot down the several items, found that the account stood as follows, according to the prices on the bill of fare: Ch0wder......................... .90 Roast beef, two plates TO Potted pigeon 45 Roast real .......35 String beans, three plates 30 ggnashtwo plates 10 Beets, two plates. JO Greens i .10 Macaroni, two plates JO Pie, three pieces .30 Pudding 10 Pineapple, twelve slices J 5 Total $3.95 To prevent needless anxiety, we may add that the youth is well and returned to the charge to-day. The victim was in the market this forenoon seeking to make an arrangement with his creditor.— Boston Transcript. —The London Lancet says that a doctor Who would administer chloral to a patient ought to be hung, but it was easy enough for a doctor to swear that “he died of too much poor health.” ■ —I Fiji isn’t so fijity as it was over the measles.