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Show A Sad Sell on a Swell Swain. Tho present proprietors of the Astor House objected to having their pariorn turned into trysting-places for malo aud fcmnlo flirts, and the malinger mali-nger of the hotel, Mr. Lansing, played an amusing joko recently npon one young gentleman of this description who came under his notice. Ho found tho following "personal" "per-sonal" in a moriiing'paper ono day: ; "Aator Houso, from Fulton ferry, in Fifth avenue stage, 1 o'clock p. m. ! Lady in seal skin aacquo will please send address to the gentleman whom alio noticed in hotel parlor yesterday, F. H. B., box 114, Herald uptown branch office." Forthwith he addressed a nolo to F. II. 13., penned in a female hand, and appointing an interview in tho hotel on the following day. The writer urged him to bo discreet, and, to make suro that there would bo no mntako, suggested sug-gested that he should walk up and down tho main corridor, with au illustrated newspaper in his left hnnd. Punctually at tho appointed hour F. H. B. mado hia appearance, ' dressed to kill, and for hall an hour paced tho corridor pensively, with a copy of Harper's Weekly in ono hand, the hotel ollicials and guests of the house enjoying themselves greatly meanwhile, llavii g linally left the hotel in despair, he put himself to the expense- of another personal. Another nolo was written to him, and ho was brought to tho hotel a second time, when rumor Bpread in the street that Weston wiia walking ou n wagor in tho Astor, and a crowd poured in to look at him. He was probably the most crest fallen young man in New York when the clerks finally called him into their private oQice and opened his oyca. X. Y. World, Kith. |