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Show IN FOREIGN NEW YORK. New York has about ceased to be an American rity. The World is obliged to admit that Burns' day, St. Patrick's day. and St. George's day appeal to armies of citizens in New York. "New England societies remind us once a year svith golden tongues how nearly Gotham's wheels of progress would pause but for the Down East Yankees. Yan-kees. The Southern society makes a remarkable fchowing of numbers and of talent. If the prosperous men who have come hither from Smyrna and Shanghai, Shang-hai, from Posen and Palermo, from Czernowicz and Athens and Debreczyn were to follow the annual dinner din-ner fashion, what an impressive showing thev would wake!" "Meet in the street 100 New Yorkers at random, ran-dom, and sixty-three of them were born in this country-, thirty-seven abroad." It is a fact. There are more Jews in New York than in Jerusalem. More Irish in New York than in Dublin. More Scotch in New York than in Edinburgh. Edin-burgh. More Italians in New York than in Naples. More Germans in New York than in Saxony. New York is one of the world's central stations. Every man that is broke in the old world, if he can get a ticket, comes to New York to make a stake. Every man from the West who makes a fortune, hurries to New York to teach that provincial city high finance end extravagance. It would be difficult to find any part of the earth that is not represented in one way or another in New York City. There are a whole lot of good fellows there. There are a whole lot of pirates and snobs, too. and there are at least 10(3.000 residents in that lovely town from whom the franchise should be taken, for rn election day their patriotism is limited to the amount that they can make by a sale of their ballot. It is the Babel of North America. |