ONE OF MAX ADELER'S STUNNING FACTS.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3034, 5 November 1878, Page 2

ONE OF MAX ADELER'S STUNNING FACTS.

" Some time ago," said the drummer, " I had occasion to visit the city of D ——, in the State of Delaware, and I concluded to stop at the Blue Hen Hotel, where I had spent one night during a previous visit. When I reached the spot where the hotel used to be, I was surprised to see that the tall building had given place to a low structure with a single row of windows, and the roof close to the ground. However, I recognised the keeper of the old hotel sitting on a chair in front of one of the windows, and I asked where his establishment was.

" There she is, sir. Ire enlarged her since you were here last." •' ' "Indeed! EnlargedP I don'texaotly understand."

" Oh, I know she looks smaller; but, stranger, I tell you that I've added four stories to this hotel since January, 76." " What became of them ? " " I'll explain. After the hotel had been built a year or two she suddenly began .to sink. I dunno what the reason is, A quicksand under her, I reckon. Anyhow, she kept going down and down, until the first story passed under ground. Then I moved the bar-room up stairs, put another story on top and began business again. Pretty soon she sank to another floor, and we moved up a second time and added another story. It's been nothing unusual in this house to go to bed in the seooud .story and wake up in the morning to find yourself in the celler. The milkman has regular instructions to pour the milk down the chimney in case he comes some morn* ing early and can't dig but a window. , Last month I overslept myself for forty* eight hours because the room remained ' dark, and when I did get up the roof was just even with the street.. " This part of the house that you see now I built on early last week. The property became too valuable to leaje. There are sixteen stories to the Blue' %en now, I've got to add another before th* week is out. If this hotel was spreittfeut tideways she'd be about three hundred yards long. Eventually I expect she'll be six or seven hundred stories high; and it'll I take you a week to get into the cellar. -1 is'poseif I keep on, this here hotel will ! reach clean through, from Delaware to China. The lower end will come 'bursting out into Hong Kong or. Shanghai, and maybe I'll be taking ' Chinamen for boarders without knowing it. Then, very likely, they'll tax.both ends of the hotel and take money put of my pocket. They're always grinding a poor man so's he can hardly get along.. Costs like thunder, to run a hotel like this that requires so much to keep up a respectable appearance. I dunno exaotly what I'll do if she breaks out on the other side of the earth and then slips, through the hole. I can't carry on a. hotel floating out into ethereal spaoe, you know.. "I have 80210 hopes that may be* before she sinks more'n a mile or two, she'll strike a volcanic vein or something and get a shove up; come all the way out, for all I know, and stand on tond ground. If she does, you coma found' and see me, and I'll take you \ip and show you the view. I'll bat you can see Peru and Oshkosh, and Nova Zembla and Tuokerton, and all those places— regular bird's-eye view. You come round any way, and I'll tako you down into thecellar. . .'.-',"■ I said I would, and then I hunted an si safer hotel. The Blue Hea is too original, too eccentric for cojoafort.—Philadelphia Bulletin, *""?"•••>