The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-08-27
"IMM ENsE."
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The Chicago c1yk and the 'sDasos.'
On 4 recent occasion two distin-
gu:shed Mexican gentlemen Of great
wealth and no end Of influence among
the Greasers of their OVID native wilds
reached Chicago in the course of a
trip through the United States. They
had previously visited New York and
showed their highly aristocratic semi
Spanish limbs under the mahagony of
some of the nabobs of Gotham. They
had Smiled" with all the highflyers
of the East, and then desiring taste
of genuine metropolitan city life. nat
urally came to Chicago fully prepared
to be paralyzed by all they saw. Among
other letters of introduction they
brought one to P. d. Armour, the great
pork aristocrat of the greatest pork
market in the world. That gentleman,
with hospitable intent, detailed one of
the handsomest of his many handsome
and able heutenants to "show the
town" to these dusky children Of the
Monteznmas. Let joy and champagne
be unconiined, said the great packer,
Let them revel in truflics and pate de
fois gras and let their stay in our great
city be rolling river of joyous oysters
and ice cream"
The lieutenant, nothing 10th, started
out upon his mission. He took them
to the stock yards, and, while holding
their copper-colored noses with one
hand, they murmured in concert:
"Immense.
He drove them over the boulevards
and through the parks, and again they
whispered with sigh:
"Immenss.
lie took them to Pullman, made the
rounds of the shops, showed them the
bed in Hotel Florence where the Grand
Duke sleeps when he visits his colony,
and as they drove away and breathed
the air of freedom once more the lone
some keep-otf-the- grass and don't-you-
talk-out-loud policeman was awakened
from his customary nap by their swell
ing chorus of:
''Immense."
Drivingt to the new Temple of Nam
mon, he pointed them into the visitors
gallery of the Board of Trade and broke
into flowing periods as he described the
tremendous financial transactions Of the
pot and call artists on the floor. and
still they answered only this and moth
ing more:
Immense"
Driven to desperation by this one
word OF English. which seemed to ex-
haust their vocabulary, the almost ex-
hausted. guide determined to play his
last trump, certain to startle them into
more extended expression of opin-
;ons, even if nothing more thar good
hearty Mexican cuss word. He drove
down Clark street, past the Custom
House; past the palatial gam
bling dens. and past the scalp
ers'' offices, and past the bankrupt
actors lounging upon the '.Rialto,"
then stopped at the City Hall and in
troduced his charge to the Mayor OF all
Chicago. For an hour his Honor, who
will not talk to the newspapers. talked
to his, s,silcnt but smiling visitors in every
known and unknown tongue. Never
before bad the Chief Executive Of Chi
cage, given. away to such floods of elo-
quence or cyclones of learning, but the
descendants of the Montezumas mere
ly smiled, bowed low,. and on resum-
ing the carriage family exclaimed in
feeble tones:
"Immensc.
The next day careworn young man
stood befose Mr.. Armour and detected
ly bade his. chief good morning.
"Well," said the manipulator of
pork, chow was your dag out?"
The sad young man, answered, with
a groan. only this and nothing more:
'-lmmense.
Young man" said the great pork
packer. nlistaking the cause, of his de-
jected appearance, edo you suppose
that if / had got head on me every
time thatI went out to, show friends
the town that l would now be the
greatest pig killer in the world?" And
then there was an overwhelming silence
in the house OF Armour --Chicago Her.
aid.