Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — The Englishman Was Silenced. [ARTICLE]

The Englishman Was Silenced.

An Englishman was being entertained in a Beacon street parlor one evening, when the conversation turned upon the difference beeween English and American cities. “One thing is very shocking to us,” the Englishman observed, “and that is in the many cases of violence in the streets here. That, you know, is so different in the English city.” “Different!” exclaimed one of the young ladies who was entertaining the guest; "I never saw half the violence in the streets here that I have in England. Why, when we were Liverpool hist summer we started out one day to take a walk, and we had only got across the street from the hotel when a horrible great drunken fishwife came up to me without any provocation and offered to fight me for sixpence. I never was so frightened in all my life.” “ What did you do ? Call the police V” she was asked. “Call the police?” she echoed, “there were no police in sight to call. I don’t know what I should have done if a coal-heaver hadn’t ' come along apd volunteered to take the quarrel off my hands by fighting the horrible creature for nothing.” “And yon got away without harm?” “Yes; but I never had anything like that happen to me on the streets of an American city. “No,” the visitor responded dryly, “it couddii’t, you know. An American coal-heaver would have charged you at least double for taking the affair off your bands.” “Very likely,” coolly put in a young lady "who had not yet spoken, “for the truth is that only in England are even coal-heavers fond of lighting with women.” The conversation was found to be taking a turn that would on the whole nqtprove conductive to social harmony, and she subject was therefore dropped. —Bostoii Courier.