The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-27
s0OD.BREEDlNG.
Public Manners OF Our People at the Cen
tennial.

Pub,Ic Manners OF our People at the Cen
tenniai.
The manners and opinions OF the Wis
itors 10 the Exhibition furnish a good
deal of interes 81 in themselves. The &C.
cupants of rolling chairs are unmistaka-
bly the objects of slight scorn to those
Oh foot, akin to the superciliousness OF
early risers. And, Notwithstanding
hundreds of daily instances TO the con-
trary, the pedestrians arc evidently per-
suaded that everybody in chair is the
victim of some strange manning or
malady, about which they cannot con-
ceal their curiosity. The interest taken
in any purchase by the bystanders is so
intense az to be painful to the purchaser
A ring forms Immediately round the
latter and the vendor, which increases
momentarily, until the transaction is
over, all hanging speechless on the dia-
| lopue between the two. When this is
carried on in foreign language the
audience looks Iiscomfited and dis
pleased, as if baked of its rights. A
lady acquaintance told me that Just as
her purchase was concluded and the
article replaced i'll the case, SO that it
became indiStinguishable among its fell
lows, a stranger of her own sex arrived
on the scene, and, seeing that it was too
late, logged her until they reached a
secluded spot in one of the less fire.
quented departments. Then she ac-
costed her, in low voice lyon
bought something just now" eyes"
"What was it2" But this inquisitive-
ness is generally sympathetic. l wit
messed the sale of an Indian shawl, at
which the buyer was anxious to see it
| folded aud tried on. A couple of good
nstured young Englishmen, evidently
novices in playing shopman, were help
lessly pulling it hither and thither when
very nice-looking, middle-aged woman,
with an ardent gaze, stepped up from
the circle, took it from their hands, gave
it in trice the proper twist, and then,
turning about, deity threw it over her
own shoulders, and stood there on ex-
hibition until everybody concerned or
not concerned was satisfied. That sort
of readiness to oblige is a characteristic
of our country folk: but, both abroad
and at home, it renders us liable to be
imposed upon by foreigners, which is to
be observed at the Exhibition in the
conduct of the attendants. A friend
who has been at more than one OF the
European exhibitions recognized in sew
eral of the departments men whom he
had seen at Paris or Vienna. where they
had been civility itself. Under the in
fuence of our good humored democracy
they have become extremely impairment.
On the other hand, tine misconduct of
ones own country people has more
pungent power of annoyance than that
of any other; and it was almost .intoler-
able to see them handling articles the
most easily broken or soiled with total
disregard of the placards, where one
would suppose to the commonesr consid-
GRAFTON placards would be supertiuous.
l wish I could have felt certain TINT the
person who raped and shook every an
ticle in the Chinese annex was not fell
low-conntryman. Unfortunately, there
could be no doubt of the nationality of
pair, male and female, like the first
sinners, who, having broken down the
protecting rope, were spreading them
selves in their dusty clothes on the
Gobehn sofas in the French department.
Atlantic Monthly.