, 1875-04-11

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United States, is ta1ab1e under any municipal
| law. Our Assessors will, therefore, have tt
revise their Lists, and drop "money."
4 QUEER SET OF PEOPLE.
! BAYAnD TAYLOR, in his recent jou1neyings
in Egypt, came across some curious speci-
| mems Of pigmy race whom the Khedive's
troops had found in the wi1ds of Africa.
They were little fellows with big heads, pos
sessed to all appearances Of fair intelligence,
| and not devoid Of outward grace. But their
language was foreign to any Of the known
African dialects, and they had little in COM
mon with the other people Of the world
They were Of retiring and exclusive nature,
though an ancient race. and supposed to be
the same referred to by some Of the ancient
writer's. Here were people with a local
history, an ancestry, traditions, and fixed
customs, Yet peculiar in form, color, habits,
and even mental characteristics, and unlike
the other people Of the same country.
It has occurred to Us that We have sort OF
intellectual and moral prototype Of this pecu-
liar race in our own country We refer to
the "Brook1yn crowd, an expression used
without any contempt, but as means Of dis
tinguishing the class We have in mind from
the common people in Brooklyn, who are
probably very much like the common people
everywhere else. But the Brooklyn crowd
surrounded as they have been with the virtues
and weaknesses peculiar to the nineteenth
century, mingling day by day with the base
metal Of mortality, crossing in fe1y-boats
and riding in hotse-cars, preserving all the
exterior goings~out and coningE-in Of
the rest Of mankind, eating, drink
ing, and sleeping like other terrestrial crea-
tures-have preserved distinctive existence,
the pecu1iarities Of which might never have
been discovered had it not been for the Rev.
DR.. BAcoN's letter impaling one Of the crowd
on sharp spear, and holding him up to the
public gnze. This Brook yn crowd is as Pc
cu1iar in its way as the pigmy race Of Africa
which HERoDorus first found and BAYARD
TAILOR recently Came across, and q good
many of its eccentricities and idiosynoasies
have come out within the LAST twelve mont1z
Perhaps We cannot better illustrate its distin~
gushing features than by citing q few Of its
peculiarities.
Mr. THEODORE Turox, for instance, be-
1ieves TINT his wife has been false to hin.
Most men, under similar conviction, would
put their wives away; but, SO far from doing
this, Mr. TnroN takes every possible occa-
sion to laud the high moral nature Of tho lady
he accuses, and insists that she is pure
woman. Take another instance. hr. BEECH
EB says that Mrs, MorL1oN has lied about
him most ouhageous]y, and has knowingly
and wi11fu11y perjured herself to do him in
jury; yet he is firmly persuaded still, and so
e1presses himself under oath, that she is q
nice woman,-in fact, most estimable lady.
These are certainly very queer and most un-
usual sentiments to go together. Still an
other. Mr. and Mrs. Mou17oN profess to
have known from the lips ofboth Mr. BEECH
ER and Mrs, Tn7oS that they were guilty Of
adultery; but A1r. MoULToN introduces Mr..
BEEouEB into his house, and Mrs. Mou11ox
codd1es him, and pets him, and kisses him,
and Mou1roN thinks it is oil right. Assured
ly, this Brooklyn crowd is entitled to sep
arate niche in tho historical archives.
Mrs Mou1roN, whom Mr. BEEcHm has de-
scribed as practical sort Of woman who oc-
casiona1ly "les the wind out Of the bag,"
seems to have appreciated the peculiar char
acteristics Of the crowd better than anybody
else connected with it. She had q little less
sentiment than the rest of them, and ap-
preached little more nearly the rude world
outside the sacred circle. On one Of those
numerous occasions when Mr. BEKoHEn
g." wanted to de-" and thought he couldn't
live, Hrs. Mou1roN blurtea out: "oh, you,
and FRAME, and THEODORE, are al going to
die. First, TnToN is going to die; and then |
FRANK comes home, and he is going to die;
and then You come in and say you are going |
to die; but notice you al Like to live well |
enough" Mr. BEEoHER thought this was
little hard, and he says |" it didn't make
him feel good" It WIS momentary de-
parture from the dstinchyeness and erc1u- |
siveness Of the crowd" Mrs. Mou11oH |
LET herself down from the ethereal heights on
which they were all living, and, shifting about |
The ordinary admixture Of nitrogen and car-
bonio acid gas with her oxygen, she blurted
out blunt, matter-of-fact statement, which !
we can veil imagine shocked the groaning-
md sobbjng listener, and would have equally |
.mazed the other members Of the crowd If |
hey had heard it. It was one Of their pecu-
iariies to bs constantly wanting to die, but
never dying; and it Was extremely rude in |
Nrs. Mou1roa to forget it even for mo-
nent.
When the members Of this peculiar race Of
Brooklyn were not sobbing, groaning, pour-
ng out their exuberate joys and exaggerated
affections in letters, or wanting to die, they
eem to have spent their time chiefly in kiss
ng each other. They Kissed al around, with
n infinite variety of srnack and an endless
osource Of sentiment The women Kissed
ach other, which is vary common; the men
:issed the women, which is not so common;
nd the men kissed each other, which, IN this
ountry, Is IN uncommon and, most people
7ould Say, tastelaas sort ct amusamank Ths
MY unfAirno1s noticeable IS hAt BK1o41n
a<snsd 10 xsa ndes thaa tia ahaxp u III hnb.