| 296JUST now some of the English illus-
trated papers are teeming with pictures
of life in America, suggested, no doubt,
by the fact that a so-called American
Exhibition is soon to open in London
and that Mr. Gladstone has been to see
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
"Types of Western men" prove to be
Africans, Indians and Mexicans in out-
landish costumes. The old stage-coach
of the days when Horace Greeley went
West is shown, also the "bull team,"
which is a "prairie schooner" with six
or ten pairs of oxen attached. These
papers tell their readers that it is safe
traveling from New York to Chicago,
and that the English type of civilization
is gradually spreading all over the conti-
nent! The English readers are to be
congratulated upon receiving such solid
chunks of wisdom. Their impressions
anent America were growing dim, and
needed to be touched up a little. | 296 |
