jame ten days again at an Astor jing the sights and working up our observations. We could not fail to be struck with the grand style in which everything is done here." The clerks receive large salaries, but their expenses are in proportion large. he large, eatablishanente" of the leading merchants are remarkable, consisting as they do of several distinct stores—book store, stationery, hardware, ship chandlering, dry ficlp mentioning a fow of the prices we paid, ods, fancy goods, and tailoring. I cannot I have a little pamphlet guide-book of some sixty pages which cost a dollar and a half, Our worthy chief, deeming his locks too long, had them taken off, and paid a dollar without amurmur—but as it was at the "Toilet Club," the evident respectability of the place should have satisfied him. I would like also to give a free advertisement to the man who sold a pack of cigarettes for fifty cents.
'A few lines above I believe I said something about clerks." I apologize. In these Englishfied settlements there are no such things. For some reason, to me unknown, they seem to be ashamed of their calling, and style themselves
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