The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-10

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Crispu sat down aud manufactured a
magnificent boo', which he presented to
the Emperor "Ah," exclaimed Napoleon.
"a he stamped his foot upon the floor
this as boot. Make NE another :"
No" replied the artist in leather, You
said no Italian boot make. could make a
boot | have shown you eau make one ::
| won't make another l.
The American is governed to a great
exent by the opinions OF thosc about hun
In Europe the contrary Is the case. The
American hides his claws in the velvet
and feels around hefnre he expresses him
self; the Eug lishman is like rough bit
of granite broken of with hammer the
American is like smooth pebble from
the beach-so slippery that you cannot
hold him In Europe men carry the
signs OF their vacations in their c!othing
In Paris, some years ago, the lecture
was refused admlSsiun by sentinel to Il
public building because he wore cap
which, in France. was only worn hY ser
wants He finally convinced the sentry
that he had another cap at home, aud
was permitted to go in
Americans think it is an evidence of
manhood TO repress their emutinns =
Homer made his gods whine AMI howl,
aud did not imagine that he was detract
ing from the dignity of the god. much
less that OF man This is the sentiment
in Europe After one of the sessions of
the French Assembly. Jules Favre and
the orator Berger fell upon each other 5
necks and kissed and wept Imagine
Sunset Cox and Ben Butler kissing each
other! [Lnughter One thing that
forcibly strikes an American in Europe
is the lack of what he would call enter
prise, that ia, the application of brains to
work. Ralph Waldo Emerson says: "A
Yankee has as much brains in his hands
as EuruI can has in bis skull" We
harness steam and send the lightning on
erraBds. A genuine Yankee baby look :
over the side of his cradle, plans a new
one, gets out a patent for 1t before he is
nine months Old. Laughter The diff
ference between the Yankee and the
European is illustrated by the abnve, in
connection with an anecdnte of Horace
| Greeley. Mr. Greeley. when in Fraace
once said to Frenchman. who ne saw
moving with rusty old knife: WHY
don't you get IA good sharp modern
scythe il will do three times as much
work" The Frenchman's reply was fuller
than the Tribune ever was: "Ah
! Monsieur. haven t three times the work
TO do In Europe wood is sold by tn,
pound, aud bread by the yard Tn,
Italian wood sawyer places the saw be
tween his knees, and ruhs the wood or
the saw. This according to the lecturer
was the dead low tide of the applicaiio;
of brains 10 work The high tide ni tn,
application of brains to labor is found il
rhe operation OF one of our grain elevators
which the lecturer characterized as III
instance of the Yankee skulking The
final curse of getting his living by the
sweat of his brow"
The Europeans, he said, were mach
more polite than Americans AK a New
Yorker the way to Wall street, and be
will send you to place hotter than the
4,h Julv Laughter ] Ask an Euglih
man and it is chance if he donr SEM
you to the same place Ask IA French
man the way to sotoa. and he will dirce
you with the greatest particularly All
u German the way to place and he viii
20 with you. In America everybody
travels. In Europe the man who travel.
is a curiosity. This fact explains Mon
tesquieu's remark that "Paris is France
Paris pulls down King and the matter
is accomplished before MarseilleS hear,
of it. la Europe almost every thing i:
economy. The lecturer was once in
structed in Italy by an officer OF th,
Eng lish navy how to save cent The
church, the doors Of which are alway,
open 10 the churches there is n,
hateful ari>tocrary of pews. lie hal
seen the blood of royal Naples knecliu.
side by side with the ragged lazzaroni-
both equal before God.
In the matter of aims giving the Euro
peans are far superior to US. La Ame.ic;
we waste more than the Italians eat. an,
| yet in that country he had never seen !
begpar turned away from house or store
without having something given him D,
a testimony that better off owes some
thing TO worse off Women's work il
Europe is somewhat mul,iarious. The,
do two thirds OF the work-draw wagons
propel boats, dig pillow. and, in fact
perform all kinds of labor. \ brother
of the last Emperor of Austria. wh,
married his wife in Tyrol. married he
because she harnessed horses so we'll 7
has been said that The word home is no
To be found in the French language, an,
consequently we imagine they have no
homes there. The lecturer has seer
houses iD France in which might b,
found five or six generations of the sam,
family
The prejudice against color. so ssron!
in America, has Do place auong Euro
peaus. At ST Peters. 10 Rome Mr.