Show they eat as told them A good story is told at one of the hotels here about some of the english divines who are in the city in attendance upon the methodist ecumenical council it was noticed that at the how set down for dinner on the each room giving the enlea of the house these english preachers would gather about the doors of the dining room and when they wera opened would make a wild rush inside and to seat themselves vea hastily at the first table they reached and to begin to eat as quickly aa possibly pos the landlord was puzzled to know the cause of this strange COD duct on the part of his foreign guests inquiry developed the fact that these reverend gentlemen had before coming over posted themselves on american customs by reading dickens american and martin the scene in the latter descriptive of the effect of the hotel dinner gong causing everybody to quit whatever he was doing and make a rush for the dining room lest he should fail to get any dinner they took aa gospel truth and were governing their own conduct accordingly ington cor cleveland plain dealer |