Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-03

that 1 have seen flashing ill the eyes and heard from the lips of Americans against fellow citizens in distant sections of their country. have scarcely known whether to laugh or mourn when l have been told that the New England people arc all pcddlers or canting priests; that the people of the south are all heathens, and those of the west all barbarians. Nay, was even told in New York that the Rhode Island people were all heathens and the New Jersey folks no better.
 Some Baltimore ladies told me that the Philadelphia ladies say that no Bal timore lady knows how to put on a bon net, but that the Philadelphia ladies have something worse the matter with them than that, for they do not know how to be hospitable to strangers Net. '' the author adds, II saw some pretty bonnets most becomingly worn in Balti- more, and can speak confidently as to the hospitality of Philadelphia.
 It is sad that any one should go to the expense of writing book in which these matters are taken so seriously, but here is volume, ana there are two moro of them besides, ill which the world is in formed that the bitterness existing be tween Boston and Cincinnati almost borders on bloOdShCd and rapinc Aft rr my declaration that l liked CinCin- nati, v says the writer, "a Boston lady exclaimed: Why. that wild place! They tell me that in Cincinnati the people dc not sit down to their dinner, but eat standing up.
 Oh. how painful it is to la so impor. fs. lnf [ In s,l-. into the system without two or three pcptinoidS to help the mental digestion in aSSimilatins il! l was speaking to q good friend year ago at his home ill Turnham Green regarding the Indian, in whom he seemed very much interest ed. When I said that some of our most serious wars had been with members oi the Bull family. notably with John ana Sitting. he seemed stunned.
 ''I beg pardon," said he which means that he did not understand me.
 Then patiently repeated the remark but with that profound gravity of face ] which I cannot avoid, for to me life i, a serious matter He looked at me quite a spell, with an expression of deep sur TOW. and then said: Surely you have made jolly flukc ill your history. Mir Nye. for you know that we are of al ! entirely different race from Sitting Bull and besides, you know, John Bull i. really only sort of general term, don l you see: When We say John Bull, W, don't really mean anybody in particu lar. There really is no such person. Afterward I learned that if I wished to say anything facctious had to pre- pare his mental soil for it by two ol three roars of laughter. Then by plant ing the joke in warm place. with ; sunny exposure and fCrtiliziug it with | jab or two in his ribs. tho bonmot could eventually sprout. It is national ca lamity
 ! l found, too, that tho humorous pe1si fiagc and good naturcd and spiritc, badinage going on between St. Paul anC Minneapolis must be taken i'll real ear nest by my friend across the water, anC though a college bred man of grea i wealth and refinement he said tha there must be still n great deal of densl ignorance and sectional bitterness il America when in city the size of Min neapolis q church congregation coult get up and walk out of the church in | from St. Paul.
 have another book of travel. writer on America by Scotchman, in whicl he devotes chapter to the almoS boundless farms of Dakota Tn closin; this chapter" he says, II cannot per haps do better than to give few statis tics regarding these enormous farms According to a very reliable newspape published in New York. one of thes bonanza farmers sent out his half growl children, each one bound to sulk, I gang blow. and told them to blow to tn north end of the farm and back. The, did so. returning with a half dozen oth CT sulky blows driven by their childrer certainly would not have believe this, he adds, had not been assure by New York gentleman that it wa an actual fact, and that he had seen til blows while in Mandan, N. D. H also told me that large Dakota plan CT, who owned very extensive farm | n frIt t-a n Nxt-N