Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-05
HomENOW FROM ABROAD.
HUME NUW THtV1H n H"HO7HD' A Parfsian Has Discovered Some As- tonishing Things About Us.

A Parisian Has Discovered Some As-
 tonishing Things About Us.
 From the New York Sum-
 To the fund of transformation that sup plies foreigners with widespread miscon- ception of Americans and their ways noth- ing has been added recently quite so Judi crous as the following contribution by a Frenchman of literary occupation, who writes in Paris about Gotham. Two weeks of sauntering suficed to inspire this:
 I am now 15 days in New York, and will proceed to give you few impressions of this cosmopolitan city. The city is extra ordinarily dirty ,and possesses means of in tercommunication in profussion. The houses are built without taste, and are all most all constructed on the same model. Certain buildings rise to night that is dangerous, but large or small, good taste can find nothing to admire here.
 The police form body doing more harm than good, and all the employees, from the lowest to the highest, are for sale. In order to discover lawbreakers they begin by of fering rewards which they have no inten- tion of paying. The most shameful estab- 1lSuLuOuCS DIOSpOI ohO P1oGOSpAOh oA this model police, and the policemen habi- tually rob the persons they arrest for drum kenness.
 Americans of the lower class understand but two words, and three words if belong ing to the better class. These are "whis- key," "dollar, ''sby the poor, and to these two words the rich add Champagne" and heaven knows what kind of cham pagne.
 Among them I observed many Jews, who are all engaged in commerce. They are mostly illiterate, purse-proud and gorgeous ly clad.
 eign birth, and consists of the scum of Flu rope, whom the law compelled to leave their country. At every hall and public building one breathes a suffocating odor caused by the general habit here of expec- | torating tobacco juice. The men chew this all day, while the women chew piece of aromatic rubber, One sees them every | where moving their jaws but never swal- lowing anything. There are also women who use snuff.
 There are some good doctors here, but l they are very rare.
 There are also many apothecaries, who rival those in Europe in their extortions,
 and are mostly ignorant. The restaurants are good when the cook | ing is French, otherwise they are bad. The poorer sorts are disgrace to humanity | All, without exception, eat as if their life | depended on the quickness with which they l finished.
 l In reading the newspapers one is apt tc
 come across the most vapid jokes sand
 wiched in between items of news and seri ous articles.
 l Many of the ladies have false teeth, oi which they are very proud ,and do not hesi tate to tell you the cost. l The people here drink brandy in private
 and water in public. Everybody dresses
 eats and drinks with regard to the onlook
 CTS. Many women lunch on a cup of tes l and tart.
 It is country of shams, which is her' called "humbug." The Americans do no care to work; they wish only to buy an6
 sell. They do not know the difference be tween chromo and a painting, and valu' the latter only by its size. If man buy
 a coat for $20 he will tell you that he pait 1 $40 or $60 for it. Although he has neve
 been in Europe, he will advise you abou
 the beauties of Switzerland and the vice | of Paris.
 l I attended one performance of what the,
 called parody, and never saw anythin,
 sillier or more tasteless. Americans hav
 no decorations, but their vests are covered
 with small medailions which indicate tha
 the wearer is a member of such and such l "club."