Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-09-18

LONDON. Sept. !. 1878.
From Paris TO London IL not more
than nine or ten hours lthey estimate
distance by time in Europe). but that
gives no idea Of the immense changes
in scenery. life aud manners involved in
the transition from one city to the other.
Paris is clean. white walled, ever wear
ing an air Of holiday and refinement.
Ia Paris the humber classes are cheer
full. happy. healthy looking. and cheap
ly but neatly alfred; her dandies are
exquisite and diabolically gay, and her
ladies', what moro need be said OF them
than that they dictate fashion to the fe-
male world. and are at the bottom oil
hard times? London is immense. lab-
arynthine. unelean, mephitic. Her
lower classes are numerous, blear-eyed,
filthy and meanly clad !; they wear
A WORRIED, wEARikp APPEARANCE.
Giving the impression OF a hard. strug.
Cling past. and doubtful future. Her
middle classes have a SLOPPY air, home
ly features. with ungainly physique. and
an elaborate but ungraceful
The want OF taste in dress Of tho Eng
lish people is proverbial. but am dis
posed to think that the defect is less in
the eve and aesthetic sense Of the sub
ject than in the want OF n proper figure
for the display Of good clothes. The
average Englishman is neither an Adonis
nor Antinous. Either his arms are too
long. his shoulders too narrow. his
stomach too large. his shins too short.
or his toes are disposed to turn in. i
know that many who imagine that they
have seen Epglishmen will DO dis
posed to
cRIricisE Ny CRITICISM.
But let no one suppose that he has seen
q people until he has seen them in their
W habitat. The only way to compare
tho English with the French or Ameri-
cans is to see them in the mass, as they
may be seen in their respective coun'
tries, and l think that those who have
remained for a few weeks in England
will bear me out in what l have said.
Next to the French there are perhaps
fewer native English people in the
United States than OF any other great
nation, and the specimens with us do
not furnish a sufficiently broad premise
for a general estimation. Politically the
Englishman is loyal. In spite OF a dis
contented element that ends ttful ex-
preston here and there, nineteen OF
| every twenty Englishmen you meet will
| speak with pride and praise when the
Queen, the Prince Of Wales, or any OF
the royal family are referred to. The
twentieth one. however, will call her
Britanic Majesty
An Ill uA0,
And has awful stories to tell about the
stupidity OF the Prince Of Wales, his
diseased body and dissolutc life. All
Englishmen praise the superiority Of
our railway cars. but there their con-
cessions cease; they think they have the
best government in the world, and are
ready TO prove by figures that our fire..
quent elections. by breaking up indus
trial routine and habits are indirectly a
greater strain upon the exchequer than
the enormous amount expended for the
maintenance Of the royal family. No
Englishman can quarrel without inform.
ing his adversary. Mt some stage OF the
alteration. that he Is an Englishman.
and he cannot talk long with an Ameri.
can without dsnouncing the protective
tariff Of the United States. That IN
wuERE n SHOE IScHEs.
II We would but give free ingress to
the numberless cheap and excellent
things they make, they would love us
more. The marvellous cheapness and
superior quality Of the thousand and
one articles that are indispensable to
civilized life, here in London. cannot but
astonish Americans, who cannot see
how they can be made for twice the
sun asked for them. A tooth brush
that will cost forty cents in the States
may be bought in London for i've or ten
cents and thousands OF other things in
proportion. I cannot OF course make
a list, but will say in a general way that
our tailors and dealers in useful aud
fancy manufactured articles are perhaps
tho most extortionats sinners in the
world, and that one hundred and even
two hundred per cent. is not an unusual
profit for them. In England
Tur COOPERATIVE srsrrN
Is having a very appreeiable effect on
local trade. The object Of this system
may be described as the furnishing Of
members Of a trading association. form
ed for the purpose. with genuine and
moderately. priced goods on the principle
Of ready-money payments. the cheap
ness being secured by economy OF a
agement and by contentment with small
profits. Notwithstanding the oppose
ton Of retail and sven Of Wholesale
uralers, " uas VI ihtc l'atS houc astoh
ishingly rapid progress in London.
where there are about thirty cooper.
alive stores. carrying ON an immense
trade. The chief company is the
civil Service Supply Association"
which consists Of shareholders Of men,
bers belonging to the civil service, who
pay about sixty cents a year. and OF out.
sidsrs (vho must be friends Of members
or shareholdsrs) who pay 81 20 all.
nuAlly. AL have
THE SANK ADVANTAGES
In the purchase OF goods; but while the
civil service members may have goods
sent home. carriage free, the others
must take their purchases away with
them or pay for their carriage. The
Association now employs about GOO per-
sons, who receive salaries amounting in
all 10 S25O.OOO annually. The cost Of
the string. paper and straw used IN pack
ing goods amounts to $4,000 per al.
mum. The sales in 1877 amounted to
tho enormous sum OF S5.5OO.0 0o. the
net profits being a little over Two per
cent. The articles sold comprise, groce-
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