Show AMERICA HAS already a bad name i in European estimation and per hapa the partisans of some effete monarchy might be pardoned for circulating culating among emigrants or those about to emigrate two items from the American papers of this week In one is told the tragic story of an Englishman who landed I in New York entered a saloon to have a drink and was drugged robbed of 110 and thrown into the street pawned his watoh for 1 spent half of this sum in buying a 25 cent meal and on going to spend the change was arrested for passing counterfeit money Such an experience was naturally surprising not to Bay stupefying stupe-fying but the ways of the sincere of New York will not seem to the European Euro-pean critic more curious than those of Chicago Behold a clergyman who organizes a new congregation and being pressed for money borrows a silver service from the soprano of the choir and pawns the same and is straightway arrested as a receiver of stolen goods the plate being the long and anxiously looked for spoils of a burglary |