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Show A SLICK HOTEL BEAT. Am a Schemer He Could Give the Clerk roints and Not Half Try. Tho fellow had no baggage when he registered first at the Markham House Saturday, but had a very glib tongue and told such a plausible story that he was permitted to register and given a room. Ho was woll dressed and a very pleasant spoken fellow, and his bill for extras soou assumed startling proportions. propor-tions. The hotel people became alarmed, alarm-ed, and after ho had been there several days a party stopping there told them he was a beat The clerk fixed up a scheme, and that evening he got into the fellow's room on some pretext after ha had retired, and calmly gathering up the fellow's coat, vest and pants told him they could be redeemed at the office for the amount of his bill. . Tho fellow's nerve did not desert him even in this extremity. He borrowed a mackintosh coat from the clerk which reached to his heels, which he put on over his underclothing, in order to go after some money, and walked to the Kimball House, where he boldly registered regis-tered and wns shown to a room, leaving leav-ing word that when his baggago arrived it was to be kept until he got up in the morning. At about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning morn-ing he came jumping down stairs, making mak-ing a great noise of a tale cf robbery, in whioh he had lost his clothes and $85 in cash. Trie hotel management, without with-out stopping to investigate (.he fellow, got him a new suit of clothes' and paid him $S5 rather than have such notoriety notorie-ty attached to the housa Tho fellow then walked back to the Markham house, paid his bill, obtained his clothes and jumped out of town. Chattanooga Times. Among the curiosities of typography a prominent place must be given to th recent achievement of a Chicago paper in thw mixing up of headlines in a most startling manner. First there is an article ar-ticle with this caption: THE CONDOR OF THE ANDES. Albert Seatot Bery of Kentucky Bears Tbat Distinction. In another column on the same page of tho paper in question i9 this an-. uouncement: TALLEST MAN IN CONGRESS. 80m Far Above the Eagle a:u Reache t Height of SixMileo- |