The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-13

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other point of universally admitted superior
ity is the skill of American dentists.
In all the capitals Of Europe one will find
Americans occupying the most prominent
places as dentists to the crowned heads and
the nobility, and in this city our countrymen
are very numerously and we'll represented in
the ranks Of that profession. Among the
most prominent are Doctors Abbott and
Sylvester, who have gorgeous establishments
and seem to be overrun with patients from the
| very highest circles ofsociety, and, dare say,
are coming money. They neither extract
teeth or do artificial work, those departments
being left to the ''small fry" and they only
work from about 10 to 2, except occasionally
to oblige some patient of distinction.
There is also lady dentist in Berlin,
known as Mrs. Hirschfeld-though she has
married again and so changed her name
who went to Philadelphia, and, after attend
ing the requisite lectures, received her degree
as doctor of dental surgery, and, returning to
Europe, set up as an American dentist in
Berlin where she soon became famous, and
at present enjoys the distinguished patronage
of the Crown Prince and many of the highest
nobility. 1t seems that German who can
show a diploma from one of our American
dental colleges is at once recognized as en-.
titled to confidence, and, of course, genuine
American stands even q better chance; that,
to be sure, he needs to know something of the
language to get along conveniently.
Among other Americans whom happened
upon in my peregrinations about Berlin, is
youth of no little conceit. who halls from the
Crescent City and who represents himself q
correspondent of one of the New Orleans
papers, the Picdy,lae, if am not mistaken.
overheard him telling another literary char
acter, young Scotchman, whom it seems he
had met in the restaurant where we were all
sitting at the time, of some pretty sharp
criticisms that the New Orleans Times and
RepubHcauhad been getting off at his expense,
and over which he pretended to be very much
amused, that suspected that he really felt
the cuts little deeper than he was willing to
admit.
This pair of aspiring young quill drivers,
quite unconscious that any one was present
who understood English, were comparing ex-
periences, and each one in turn seemed act
ing the role of q bore, according to the de6ni-
who persists in talking about himself when
you wish to talk about yourself" The young
American inflated his new found acquaintance
with the reading of q long article, the one it
seems that had elected the hostile criticisms,
and in which he described the English rail-
way system, and in the course Of his remarks
alludes to "a man with q face like a bulldog
and voice like BEAR" who bullied timid
people at one Of the New Orleans depots.
After reading this he produced the criti-
cisms, one from Roundabout" of the New
Orleans Times, who had taken exceptions to
this particular paragraph, and claimed that
the bull dog in question was a creature of the
correspondents imagination. The feature Of
the joke that he seems particularly to enjoy
was, that "the self-cons,ituted oracle and
"modern" Don Quixote as he spoke of Round
About had been so stupid as to imagine that
the article was written by q lady, and had
alluded to its author as the +" fair correspond
ent." He pointed out to the Scotchman what
an absurd blunder this was on the part of the
"oracle," for the same article refers to the
writer's having slept on the cabin floor of a
steamer, among score or two of gentlemen,
with an overcoat for cover, and Of how the
gentleman who Vas his next neighbor had
complained in the morning of the correspond
ent's talking in his sleep, and SO with a train
Of incidents that could hardly have happened
to a lady.
In reply to d question az to who Rounda-
bout was, he informed his friend that he is
party who writes for the New Orleans Times,
and who has set himself up as the infallible'
source Of information on every subject, and
who goes about the city poking his nose into all
the hooks and corners, with plausible desire
to discover and show up all that is bad, and
to bestow his condescending approval on all
that is good. He described rather humor-
ously how the oracle sometimes gets stumped
with hard question from somebody, and
how he falls into such stupid errors as the
one committed, in regard to this particular
letter. This mistake he seemed to enjoy i'm
mensely, and said it was so good as to Danish
all idea Of revenge from his mind, though
the Scotchman, with the spirit Of his national
reviewers upon him, insisted that the New
Orleans youth ought not to let such splendid
chance to be sarcastic, at his critics expense
pass unimproved.
The other cut, from the Republican, he pro-
fessed to despise as coming from such an
scribed the Republican to be, though fancy
that if there had been any chance to have re-
taliated he would have gladly done so. It
seems that on arriving at Rotterdam from
England, this correspondent had congratu-
lated himself on being sat last in Europe,
as if he had not been in Europe all the
while he was in London, and that the Repub-
ican man had satirically pronounced this an
exhibition of "fuss class in geography" The
youth himself had to acknowledge that he
had opened himself to this malicious little
bit OF sarcasm by saying Europe" instead
of the Continent of Europe, but claims
that it was very contemplate thing on the
part Of the Republican to pick at such a
trifling little error as this. I dare say that
he will watch his chances aud vent his spleen
upon the despised Republican" with the
first opportunity that off7rs, and that cob
scure" paper had better be on its guard for
the future. But people who put themselves
in print need not expect to escape criticism,
and this little episode may teach our young
correspondent to mind his P's and Q's a little
more carefully hereafter.
Yours, STAHLFEDER.
Two SUNSETS IN ONE DAY.-One Of the finest
sights Professor Stiner, the aeronaut, says that
he ever saw, was the view he had of two sunsets,
while on his balloon trim from MilUankea He