The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-28

| IN ENGLAND.
| that have seen flashing in the eyes and
! heard from the lips of Americans against
| fellow citizens in distant sections of their
| country. Ihave scarcely known whether
| TO laugh or mourn when I have been
told that the New England people are
all peddlers or canting priests; that the
people of the south are all heathens, and
those Of the west all barbarians. Nay, 1
was even told in New York that TIE
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 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. Yet, !"
the author adds, II saw some pretty
bonnets most becomingly worn in Balti-
more. and can speak confidently as to
the hospitality of Philadelphia
1t is sad that any one should go to the
expense of writing book in which these
matters are taken so seriously, but here
is a volume, and there are two more of
them besides, in which the world is in
formed that the bitterness existing be-
tween Boston and Cincinnati almost
borders on bloodshed and rapine. aft
er my declaration that liked Cincin-
natl, :" says the writer, ga Boston lady
exclaimed: why, that wild place! They
tell me that in Cincinnati the people do
not sit down to their dinner, but eat
standing up
Oh, how painful it is to be so imper-
vious to joke that it cannot be taken
into the system without two or three
peptinoids TO help the mental digestion
in assimilating it! / was speaking to a
good friend year ago at his home in
Turnham Green regarding the Indian,
in whom he seemed very much interest
ed. When l said that some of our most
serious wars had been with members of
the Bull family, notably with John and
Sitting, he seemed stunned.
81 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 is
a serious matter. He looked at me quite
q spell, with an expression of deep sor
row, and then said: Surely you have
made jolly fiuke in your history, Mr..
Nye, for You know that we are of an
entirely different race from Sitting Bull,
and besides, you know, John Bull is
really only sort of general term, don't
you see? When we say John Bull, we
don't really mean anybody in particu-
lar. There really is no such person. -
Afterward learned that if | wished
to say anything facetious had to pre-
pare his mental soil for it by two or
three roars of laughter Then by plant
ing the joke in a warm place, with a
| sunny exposure and fertilizing it with a
jab or two in his ribs, the bonmot could
eventually sprout. 1t is national ca
laIsity.
| found, too, that the humorous persi-
flage and good natured and spirited
| badinage going on between ST. Paul and
| Minneapolis must be taken in real ear
( nest by my friend across the water, and
/ though a college bred man OF great
wealth and refinement he said that
| there must be still great deal of dense
| ignorance and sectional bitterness in
| America when in city the size Of Min
neapolis church congregation could
| get up and walk out Of the church in a
huff because the clergyman took his text
from St Paul.
| have another book Of travel, written
on America by a Scotchman. in which
! he devotes q chapter TO the almost
/ bOundless farms OF Dakota In closing
this chapter" he saws. Il cannot per
haps do better than 10 give few staris-
I tics regarding these enormous farms.
According 10 very reliable newspaper
published in New York, one Of these
bonanza farmers sent ont his half grown
children, each one bound to a sulky
| gang plow, and told them to pillow 70 the
/ north end Of the farm and back They
did so. returning with a half dozen 9th
er sulky plows driven by their children.
, l certainly would not have believed
this" he adds. had | not been assured
+ b. New York gentleman that II Wa:
al actual fact, and that he had seen the
plows while IN Mansian. y. D. Hs
also told me that a large Dakota plant
e.. who owned = very extensive farm.
( hsd 70 give two year mortgage On IL,
ana before he could get the mort gage on
/ the south end Of II recorded il was dine
. on Uhe north ensI
! 4 gentleman residing in Glasgow told
1e that be wouid COS ike 70 1--we u