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Show A MATTER OF COMPULSION. No Soup, No Dinner, the Rule Laid Down by Barney. Six yenrs ago, when tho king visited Dublin, some nmitsliig Incidents were recorded due to tho grotesquonesB of somo hotel waiters appatcnlly Just fresh from rural life. Ono hotelkceper told such n newly Imported "server" that ho must nl-waya nl-waya servo every ono with soup at dinner nnd lie quite certain thnt he had It. Thereupon ensued tho following I weno between n visitor and tho new waiter: "Soup, sir?" said Rarney. "No soup for me." said tho visitor. ' "Rut you must havo It," said Ran ncy; "It's tho rules of tho house." I "Hang tho house!" exclaimed tho visitor, highly exasperated. "When I don't want soup 1 won't eat It. Got klimg with you!" "Well," said Rarney, with solemnity, "nil I can say Is Just this It's tho rules of tho houso and rorrn a drop ' elso ye'll get till ye finish tho soup!" liondon Telegraph, |