Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1883 — Among the Mexicans. [ARTICLE]

Among the Mexicans.

Newcomers in the City of Mexico are surprised on finding so many of the conveniences common to large cities at home, such as the telephone, the electric light, a police force and an excellent street-car service. The electrio lights are on the tops of iron rods running up from the gas-lamp posts. The police are far more soldierly than the regular army of the country. They wear a blue flannel suit, the coat buttoned op. and their cap has a covering of white, which, with the standing linen collar, is always immaculate. In their belts on one side they carry a club and on the other a large revolver. If one wishes to see a policeman he has only to go to the nearest corner and he will surely find him standing there, for he has no beat to walk over. The speed at which street cars go is astonishing. They dash along as fast as mules can pull them, and s they approach a corner the driver gives a loud toot on a horn for the purpose of warning people on the crossing to get out of the way. Epitaph of an Arizona man who loved his neighbor’s horses, not jvisely but too well, and who was also bad in other ways: “He was pretty mean in some respects; but, then, he was mean-’ er in others.” Raillery is sometimes more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but it is ridiculous to bo angry at a jest.Rochefoucauld.