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Show A Htcak Tliat C ost liSO.OOO. The trip of (ieorgo Frmicis Train aronr.d the world has recalled somo of hiscewntric doing" wln n he was wealthy. Nearly twenty-five years ago ho was in Denver and hud culled for beefsteak for breakfast, insisting that ho wanted it broiled. It camo to him fried. Ho abused tho waiter and tho cook, but ho got no sat i;-faction, and finally swallowing swallow-ing hia unger and a siriiori of the sU-nk waudcr'-d out into tlie ofilec, when) ho met tho proprietor. Tlm wibjoct of the rtwik wait i!inwl between them in uiiiiiiated lanuaK" f"r f'-w niiiiutes, when Train suddenly rwked: "Hay, what will you take for thin hotel nnd get out today? You don't know how to run a hotel." Tho proprietor named f!3,0H0 as his priei., which was n Bjfuro far above its real value. "All right," said Train; "111 tako it. Mk:Mnt tho iai:rs at one and I will iink'i out a check for tlm amount." Tho hotel was duly traiev ferTtJ to Train, who discharged tlm waiter an 1 tho rook, ran tho e.itab!i h-went h-went for two WH-ltH, cal'i-d in an auctioneer auc-tioneer end sold out everything to tho hig'jest bidder. V.'htn Lo willed up wilh the man cf th i ml fla he found that lie hwl paid jiwt fWM fa th.it fried steak. New York I'reaK. |