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Show CENTENNIAL SICHTS. Those who are least acquainted with American ways and American character were particularly impressed , with the market.! respectability of the crowd that came together yesterday. Standing in the diplomatic section of the grand stand, and looking out upon tho vast sea of well-dressed men and women who listened with rapt attention, and what was better, with evident enjoyment and appreciation, to the performance of the Thomas orchestra and the grand chorus, a member of the German commission, who has only been a few weeks in America, Baid to me, in amazement, j "But in my life I have never seen so I many of he belter classes assembled at one time. We have very mistaken notions of you Americans." Then altera moment's pause he continued: "One tiling I wonder at, however. You talk so much about your liberality liberal-ity to all classes, why have you to-day excluded all the poor people? Irt tnis crowd I see nothing but the rich and ! very well dressed." I assured him :u was the fact that men and women from all classes were well represented in the throng. This was, indeed, the truth. Tho multitude was made up i of all kinds of people. Rich men and wouien there wero in plenty, but there were also workmen and working work-ing women; carpenters, shoe-makeis, and blacksmiths, clerks and sales-nic, sales-nic, lawyers and doctors and ministers, minis-ters, bricklayers aud lager-beer saloon keepers, farmers and manufactures, were all mingled together in the good American fashion. When this became be-came clear to my German acquaintance acquain-tance he was almost beside himself with astonishment. "What," he said, "those well-dressed women are not all rich ladies; and among those men all with cloth coats there are many farmers, stone-masons, and cobblers? But, thtin herr, where are your common people, your peasants?" peas-ants?" "We are all comiBon people," 1 replied, "and wo have nopeasants." Again tho gentleman looked at that American crowd, and continued to do so, Bhaking his head in amazement amaze-ment and muttering at intervals, "Dcrlieljcr Himmel, what a country! A hundred thousand people in a crowd and not one peasant;" New York Tunes |