Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-07-11

Yolvers, our ironclads, our cotton gin,
our sewing machine, our roller process |
for making flour, our thousands of use
ftil inventions-''toote tedious to men, |
tion," as the sale bills say-have revo-
lutionlzed human life and human labor
to such an extent that we have practi- |
caliy created new world.
From being the greatest buyer, we
have become one Of the largest sellers |
of merchandise. Our goods are found |
in every market in the world. Ifthere |
were universal famine in Europe, we |
could spare them enough bread and /
meat and pull them through to another |
harvest. !
Our ntarksmen have bearded the lion |
in the European den and come home |
from every contest victorious-never |
sustaining a defeat
An american yacht, on a certain
memorable occasion, outsailed all Brit
ish competitors off Cowes.
American ball-players have defeated
English cricketers at their own game
on their own grounds.
American oarsmen have made the
British Isles the laughing stock of both
continents.
An American wing shot won the
worlds championship on English soil.
British chess players were as children
in the hands of Paul Morphy.
Gen. Robert &. Schenck, American
Minister to the Court of St. James, put
in most of his time initiating the de-
cendants of the Normans, Plantaga-
nets, Tudors, Stuarts and Brunswick
ers into the mysteries of the American
game of draw poker--always at the ex-
pense of his long pedigreed pupils.
Our only drawback to universal
championship in the athletic world was
the failure of Col. John Lawrence Sui
livan, of Boston, to knock out Charlie
Mitchell, of England, at Chantilly, in
France, year ago. But as the Colonel
promises to redeem himself next Mon
day, near New Orleans, we may be
happy yet.
\ few years ago, Iroquois, an Ameri-
can colt, and not an extraordinary one
at that, beat all the horses in England,
carrying off the Derby and Prince of
Wales Stakes; and Jim Keene's Fox
hall won the grand prize of Paris.
Buffalo Bill is, to-day, probably the
most important and sought after per-
sonage III France. Some people are
mean enough to insinuate that the
| reason Gen. Boulanger quit his native
land so suddenly is his jealousy of the
immense popularity of Col. Cody and
his Cowboys and Indians in the Pari-
sian capital.
While our Buffalo warrior is delight
ing the grandlings with his Wild West
show and hob-nobbing with the celeb
| rites, our Mrs. Mackay is dazzling roy
atty and the fashionable world with
u display of diamonds, jewelry and
| finery unequalled since King Solomon
appeared arrayed in all his glory. To
demonstrate that an American cannot
| be fooled with even in the effete East,
she has recently sued all the great
cause they accidently or incidentally
remarked that her mother was a wash
er-woman-though just how or why
| that statement, even if true, would in
jure her in the estimation of people
whose good opinion is worth possess
| ing is one of those things no fellow can
find out. If she had as much brains
as money and pride she might turn
the tables upon her aristocratic snub-
bers by prying closely into their gene
alogies and in nine cases out of ten she
would find somewhere among her an
cestors lusty stable boy, bold, sue
| cessful robber baron. or the captain OF
a Morse pirate ship.
Our Vanderbilts, Goulds, Mackays,
| Astors and Carnigies boast of revenues
more than royal.
Perhaps some of these things are not
altogether complimentary, but they
are the truths of history.
"WHO READS AN AMERICAN BOOK ?''
was sneeringly asked at time within
the memory of men now living. To
day there are sold in Europe more
copies of Jefferson Davis ''Rise and
Fall of the Confederate Government ~
of Grants Memoirs" and of Blaine's
"Twenty years in Congress" than of
any current historical work by any
Englishman. There have been print
ed more copies of Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stoves "Uncle Toms Cabin" than of
Dickens complete novels, and it has
| been translated into every modern
language. And perhaps the general
restlessness and bad temper of Europe
may be accounted for on the theory
that numerous Uncle Toms Cabin
troupes are playing among them. Ii
they wouldn't be disturbed under that
sore atfiiction they must be deaf, dumb
and blind.
Mark Twain, Artemus Ward, Bret
Harte, Longfellow, Bancroft, Haw-
thorne, Cowper, Poe and Emerson
have become English classics.
Talmage, the great Brooklyn preach
er, created u perfect furore in the
British isles.
English audiences were lately busy
applauding the histrionic performances
of Edwin Booth, John Mccullough and
sweet Mary Anderson, the last OF
whom had the good sense and pluck to
snub the heir apparent to the English
throne.
/ All of our leading magazines and the
Il New York Herald publish English
editions for the special delectation and
instruction of Johnny Bull, which facts
very thoroughly and quite satisfactor-
lily answer the question as to who
reads an American book.
i AN AMERICAN LOVER.
, Most of you have been in love; some
of you are in love. The rest of you
will some day fall in love-at least ]
hope so-for / can testify from person
al knowledge that it is most delight
full sensation. Perhaps Lord Byron
knew as much about love as any man
i that ever lived. He certainly ought
to have been posted for he was ever
lastingly in love. He had as large and
variegated assortment of sweethearts
as anybody that 1 now remember.
After enumerating all the sweet things
he could think of he said:
But sweeter still than this. than these than all
Is first passionate love II stands alone
Like Adams recollection of his fall.''
/ But, you say, what has this to do with
the Fourth of July speech? I'll tell
you: Gratifying and startling .as are
the successful achievements in art
literature, science, and other fields ta
which L have alluded, an American
boy has accomplished feat in the
love-making line, sufficiently brilliant
to arouse the jealousy of Paris of Troy
For 66 years there had lived in Eng.
land lady celebrated for her many
noble charities, celebrated for hel
J learning, celebrated for being the rich.
est unmarried woman in the world
celebrated for being created peeress
in her own right, and especially cele-
brated as being about the only woman
since the days of Mother Eve. who did
not desire to marry. Many suitors
attracted by her fame and wealth
sought to win her heart and money
All failed. Princes, dukes and earls
retired discomfitted. But an Ameri.
can lad of some twenty-five summers
paid court to the old girl who had
scorned all lovers for sixty-six years
and recently led to the marriage altal
the Baroness Burdett coutts-banl
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