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DAILY PRESS, : Newport News, Va.
Ten million glasses, costing $-1,000.
000, are smashed every year In Hie
twenty-four thousand cafes and other
drinking places of New York state,
according to those who are engaged
in replacing the beer or whiskey glas
e's and tho finer vessels used when
champagne Is ordered, says the New
York Tribune.
Most of those broken are the cheap
five cent beer glass, but. in the more
fashionable cafes the breakage con?
sists often of the finest. American
etched glass, French crystal, or even
valuable Bohemian goblets, delicate?
ly tinted to harmonize with the shade
of some rare vintage. Such glasses
may cost 40 to SO cents. It is not
necessary, however, for these delicate
vessels lo fall to the floor. The mere
tapping on the edge of one of them
with a fork or knife to summon "(iar
con" or "Koelner" may put a tiny
nick in the Hp of the glass and make
ii useless to any hotel which prides
Itself on furnishing' only perfect glass
ware.
New York city Is the heaviest loset
by accidents to drinking glasses, and
the dealers in diese commodities are,
consequently, kept busy replacing the
huge pile of glasses put on the junk
heap every night in the seven thou?
sand-odd drinking places scattered
along '?Incandescent Row," and at
greater Intervals out to Far Rocka
way or further Bronx. In fnct, New
York: is probably one of the few citlet
in which an entire business section
is devoted to wholesale dealing in bar
and other glassware.
In the White DIglit District ihere
are at least one hundred places where,
according to dealers and manufactur?
ers, the beverage glasses average
$2,500 a year each, while in-some the
bill Is far larger. Kven the smallest of
saloons will lose about five dollars a
month in glasses, and this does not
include an occasional mirror In which
some longshoreman takes a shy at the
image of himself with a brick just to
hear the tlnklo.
Breakage Expected.
With 'he exception of mirrors the
guests of hotels are never called upon
to pay for glass not broken malicious?
ly. The lioniface expects some glas*
to he broken," as be cannot decorate
Ills cafe with cotton batting or have
excelsior on tho floor. He does not
hecomo excited, therefore, when some
rare bit of crystal rolls off a table or
losses Its thin shank by l.?c?lng brushed
over. He dimply puts the smash In
the profit and loss fund. For it is
nil loss, and tho pile of broken glass,
if heaped, probably would be nearly
the sl/e of the City Hall, while In
value the beverage in the state would
pay for a pretty good sized battle?
ship.
Glassware manufacturers assert
that there accruea to them nn aver?
age of $200 annually from each drink?
ing place in the stale. This average
is figured from tho $100 accounts of
the "little corner places" to the $?!,
000 bills of the most heavily patron?
ized cafes. Whiskey and beer glasses
entail the greater cost, for while, gen
erally speaking, the least expensive.
1 hey nre In more frequent use and
consequently are broken most often
in handling. <j if'^JSI
The array of gleaming, highly pol?
ished glassware displayed and used In
the hotels and cafes in Manhattan Is
unexcelled anywhere In the world,
and proprietors are constantly plan?
ning to improve the stock. Many have
glassware designed and manufactured
espeelnlly for I hem. Heer of the tin
oat brew?not necessarily the most
expensive?Is quaffed In Broadway
and in Fifth avenue from beautiful,
tall, cone shaped glasses . Also there
are specially tinted glasses for vari?
ous wines of rare vintage, blending
in a perfect harmony of color with
their contents.
Hotel and restaurant men comment
with unanimity upon the fact that to
souvenir collectors is duo a rather
considerable part of their glassware
expense. There are men, and women,
too, who seem to he unable to resist
the temptation to slip into their grips
r.omo nicely etched glass. Some per?
sons who travel a great deal accumu?
late a collection in this way, it is said
and while hotel men try ,to prevent
tho petty larceny practice, they can?
not do so entirely.
A Machine for Repairs.
A unique plan to prevent foolish
extravagance in casting away fine
glassware which has a minute abra?
sion of its rim la in practice in sev?
eral high class barrooms. What is
known as a "grinding machine" la
employed to smooth away such im?
perfections as might not be detected
by the eye. Rare wine glasses aro
often treated by this process.
"Somo of the best bartenders ana
'mixologists' break up the most glass?
ware." said the proprietor of a well
known cafe, "and yet we have no cen
, sure for them, for their rapidity In
I compounding more than compensate.-,
for their breakage."
"Is there such a thing as life In a
glass?" a reporter asked.
"I see what you mean," he respond?
ed. "I've thought of that?whether
a glass would Inst just so long before
It collapsed?died, so to speak. My
conclusion is that the average glas?
in use In Broadway hasn't time. Ol
course, sonic glassware is hardiet
than others. Delicate, thin stemmed
wlno glasses aro the despair of ruosl
persons. Just a little twist, anil
they're snapped."
One often hears that New York It
a great cocktail drinking town, bul
Ibo stewards at I he big hotels say
that mixed drinks ore taken not one
tenth as often as beer and straight
whiskey. They base their statements
on their glassware bills and hold the
evidence to be incontrovertible.
Enjoyable at a Distance.
"Wo would have bad u pleasnnl
evening if It had not l>een for one ol
the most lusufferuble little youngster!
who was ever allowed io sit up late."
"Why, what waa the matter with
him?"
"Oh, he Is one of those children tbul
say the smart things that tickle us at
much when we read nljout them in tlx
newspapers and that drive us distract
ed when wo have to listen to them!"
Old time geographers had n slinplo
way of describing countries they
knew nothing about. They Just wrotu
the word "desert" across them on the
map. For a long time the interior of
Australia bore this uncomplimentary
epithet, but explorers bnvo demon?
strated its unfairness.
"Dad," inquired Freddy, "what Is a
?figure of speech?' "
"Where's your mother?" asked "dad"
cautiously.
"She's downstairs." answered the boy.
"Well, then," began "dad," "a tiguro
erf speech, my son. Is a woman!"?
London Telegraph.
A Different Matter.
In a Jury trial recently the attorney
for the defendant marled In to read to
the jury from a certain volume of tho
supreme court reports. lie was Inter?
rupted by the courL who said:
"Colonel -, 1C is not admissible,
you know, to read law to the Jury."
"Yes, I understand, your honor. I
am only rcadlng.to tho Jury a deelslou
of tho supremo court."?Philadelphia
Ledger. ,
Parson (on a bicycling trip)?When
is the other man who used to bo hen
na keeper?' Pork Gatekeeper?He'i
dead, sir. Parson (with feeling)?Dead
Poor fellow! Joined the great majority
eh? Park Gatekeeper?Oh, I wouldn'
like to say that, sir. Uo was a goo<
enough man, as far as I know.?Punch
Generous.
j Hicks ? Is he a generous man:
jWlcks-Oh, yes! Ho Is always glvlnf
? himself away.?Somervllle Journal. '
; j The Stout Woman?I'm not going to
' let my son run tho elevator any more.
I Custodian of Uuildlng?Why not?
- j Stout Woman?I heard a man lay
1, yesterday that tbat elevator wclgled
12.000 pounds, and he's too younf n
i, boy to be lifting that nil day.?S,ra
f-cuse Herald.
Tht Aihtint! Army.
Tho Asbnutl army Is (he male pnrtj
of the Ashtiutl nation. Every mnn who
enn keep np on the march In obliged to
servo, and after an expedition bus set
out the women scour tho Btreets nud
beat any man whom they discover
skulking at home. In battlo the gen
ernls occupy the renr to cut down any
one who may try to run away. If tho
battle goes against them tho generals
commit suicide.
Drunk on Smoking.
Moslems ure forbidden to drink
wines or spbdts, but lt^ Tuuls tbey
contrive to reach tho same ends by
smoking preparations of hemp flow?
era. Tue milder kind Is culled Ulf,
and if it la used In moderation It has
no more effect than wine, but tho con?
centrated essence, known as chlra,
produces Intoxication as quickly as
raw spirit* and lends to delirium
tremens.?London Saturday Review,
All on Show.
"It seems to me," suld Mrs. Oldens
tie, ''that if 1 had us mauy idiosyncra?
sies as Mrs. Wopplesou bos I'd try to
conceal a few of them."
"Yea," replied ber hostess as she
lightly tapped upon her Sllt.oOO vanity
box "but she seems to tldnk she can't
even tto shoppiu' without havlu* all of
them as well as every dlnmoud and
ruby ou that she's got."?Chicago Bee
ord Herald.
"You advertised new mown hny and
lowing kine," said tho city man who
wes a new arrival at tho farmbouoo.
"V/herc la the new mowu bay?"
"It's In tho lowing klne," said tho
farmer, lookluK up from his tusk of
trying to make a calf behave.?Chicago
Journal.
Johnson?That man in the arbor mak
Jig love is a divinity student
l'arker?Yes, 1 kuow, but who la the
divinity??New York Mall.
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Uop sodoq tn ,nian 1 1'"l 'II Aioim I,, '
,,'avou jonb|| ,oi jjo OAuoi
/ foS no.i ua 'tpjuqa op pou|f noj?
"My girl's father Is an nndertaker.
IIo has invented au automobile
hearse. Folks are Just dying to rldo
In It."?Exchange.
Asiatic cholera was first supposed to
have originated from the consumption
of ens mud rid- And was called "the
rice disease.''
Now's the time to take Jtocky Moun?
tain Tea. It. drives out tho germa of
winter, builds tip tho stomach, kidneys
and liver. The most wonderful spring
tonic to make people well. You'll be.
surprised with results. 3Cc. Tea or
Tablets.?J. C. Gorauch & Company.
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