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Show DON CARLOS ON AMERICAN MANNERS. Step by step we become quite familiar famil-iar with American ways and manners. man-ners. More than that, we begin to accustom ourplves to them. To-day, for instance, I', met with an adventure adven-ture which would have hern iuipo.'-i-ble in any other country iu the world, and which seems to bo viewed as quite a natural thing here. He went out with an acquaintance, an A us trian merchant, who baa rendered himself very agreeable during our .stay here. They had w.ilfced much, become thirsty, and railed at one oi the larcf-st hotels for a glass of water, f iiere stems to have been an extraordinary extraor-dinary demand for milk punches thib morning, and the glar-a tendered were considerably coverrd with milk. The Austrian remarked to the barkeeper bar-keeper that they preferred clean "They arc clean," answered thf barkeeper. "I b-;t you a hundred dollars." "We don't want to b'-t. Wo simply wiah for t'lcancr glas-es," observed the Austrian inurch.ml. "Tnen if you don't want to b?t, and yet maintain that the glares an- '' not clean, I'll punch your no.-rn," : retorted the bar man, evidently m;ik- . ine ready tor a fight. f Assuming hitn to be drunk, V. and his friend went to the oilice of the hotel and related to the propn?tor the manner in hich they hud been treated. He. immediately ordered a bell boy to bring two clean giaeM of water, remarking at the eime time that he could not interfere in the remainder re-mainder of the business, whicli appeared ap-peared to him as huini of a strictly private nalurf. lie w.tj, evidently ol tho opinion that F. and his friend were in duty bound to accept the challenge of the bar man. jW'w York Hun. |