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Show Cntt of nallrnad Dining. It lg said that one of the great trunk line railroads di lilierately provides for a loss of many thousands of dollars a year upon tbe meals served in its dining cars, and charges the loss to tbe advertising account, in full knowledge that tho talk such prodigal outlay will create is as good as that amount of money's worth in printer's ink. A friend told me that, as an illustration of how tbe loss is occasioned, occa-sioned, he had for breakfast in one of those cars, one day in April, a trout, a game bird and a bowl of strawberries and cream, besides coffee, rclis, butter and a glass of milk. The meal cost a dollar, and bis wifo told htm she could not buy any one of the principal dishes in the markets for that sum nf mouey. CJoittor. |