Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1878 — Russians, Germans and Americans. [ARTICLE]

Russians, Germans and Americans.

The Russians, of whom there are always a large colony here, are intensely Basse in everything, and spend more money in diamonds and champagne than all the other foreigners put together. The Germans, of whom we have also a great many, are, as a rule, of an economical turn of mind, patronize cheap restaurants and third-class hotels, and assimilate with nothing as readily as beer. They are the least popular of all the foreigners here, for Paris has not yet forgotten 1871. But an American has not been a week in Paris before he waxes his mustache, buys a plug hat of the latest Parisian style at Chantil’s, sports lavender kids and a whalebone cane with an ivory leg for a handle, wears narrow trousers, a tightly-fitting cheviot sack coat and patent-leather boots, and says “au plaisir?” and “ pardon, monsieur," every five minutes.—/tom Cor. Baltimore Bulletin.