Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-11-25
Yankee skill on Laaa aad sea.

The following amusing account of our experi- 1 ences, up to this time, the contest of superiority at tue Worlds Exhibition. is from the Boston Evening Transcript. It reminds us of wise re- mark once made by Sam Slick, to this effect "Neyer tell folks you can go ahead on 'em, but dp it." :-
 There is an old French proverb, that those laugh best who laugh last. The truth of it is likely to be demonstrated in the intercourse of inc last six months. between John Bull" and his tepudiated offspring, [" Brother Jonathan" Because the lat ter did not fill up the space allotted to him in the Crystal Palace with all sorts Of showy contri van ces and ornsments-with silks and satiBs and splendid cloths-with costly articles of furniture and articles ministering solely to the luxurious tastes of the opulent-our plain Brother Jonathan,
 in his suit of homespun, was laughed at, pointed at and jeered at till he himself began to distrust hs own merits, and to think of getting back to his own folks, there to own up to being beaten, aide his diminished head, and lay low.
 But while Jonathan was sitting disconsolaie in the midst of his 'traps," in the Glass Palace, and wishing that he had nothing to do with his father Bulls invitation to all the nations of the world, to come and compete with one another in their fxins'' and e'notons", Jonathan happened to take news paper, and learned that of his Collins steamers had made passage beating the best of BulPs line out and out. Jonathan slapped his leg, and sToked | 1t up and down, and his face frightened as he 1 read. He resolved to stay while longer, just to see what might turn up. His eye felfon some of the machines in his agricultural department- What's the good" be grumbied to himself, |" Of those thuaderin' old things. if p ~ole d'n't know bow they'll work New here's A 'Cormicks reapng machine. May I be - no, 1 won't swear--bu. can take my affidavit. that have seen thus machine do the work of ten men, in A given tune. II the old man could see it going ovsr his fields of rye. 1 rather think he'd stare some.- He shall see it pll stump him to see it p Mir. McConnick's machine was accordingly ktrundled out, was put in operation upon one of Mir Mechis rye fields, u . great agricultural gathering, and admitted to. be !" dead hlt." The natives were astonished. McCormicRs patent became at once worth fortune to hnn, and one of the frst-class prizes Of the Exhibition wes set down for him by the judges.
 Brother Jonathan put oh . new diekey, brushed his hat and walked through Regents Park with his head considerably higher than he had worn it the week before. Dropping into one of the club hou&es, with shs. elegantly negligent sir for which he is noted, he took up French paper and read article, from the pen of one of the most dstin- guished of cotemporars critics. in which 1t was elegantly maintained that the first work in the highest department of art. in the Exhibition, was the Grsek Slave, by Hiram Powers. 'sOne Of my h,~us io.xx k. paper, and starting up in a manner to shock the sensihlisies of cosy old gentleman and two life guardsIncn who sat Rear,
 l While Brother Jonathan was thus recovering from his depression of spirits under which he had been laberng at the commencement of the Exhibi- ton, he woke up one morning to lsarn inst anothe, of his "boYs" had, unknownfo hiseseif, come over the big pond and challenged Joha Bull and all creation besides, to . sailiag match. plankinx Ais s5o,oo0 like man, and begging somebody to wia Ii.
 Jonathan felt alitile nervous st this. If there vas anything that Buli prided himself On, Ii wsa inc superior sailing qualities of his yachts othsl folks nigla produce better pAiaiefs and sculptors
 better ship buiiders--never. "It will Ae psickin, the old man between the joints of his srmor' said Joaathan, ''te outsaiI his yachtsi I'm half afrall we can't come it. Ifs wild scheme, a ma< scheme. and it's . pity to throw away cooi hft,
 thousand dollars, However. fAe boy is in for k
 and he must face is cut like man. He mastn'
 show the white leather now. coaia give him
 ihrashing for aet letting me inio his secret h. seeing as we are hefs sngether. Pll do the had , .<==ss- thing. clap him 0n the back and help ha si out ia fapds if hs hAs bsasEsd too deep,. <.