Identifier: comichistoryofun01hopk (find matches)
Title: A comic history of the United States
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927
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Publisher: New York American book exchange
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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en our landlord, who is a German, andconducts a restaurant on Teutonic principleson the ground floor, has humanely run up 68 A TEUTONIC 8TRUGTUBB. a vent-pipe from Hs kitchen opposite ouiwindow, wliicli necessarily excludes thepicturesque ruin of the bridge from view.The reader will observe that nothing isnow visible but a tall square sheet irontube and an overpowering sense of garlic,which destroy at once our view and ourappetite. CHAPTER X. A FLOOD OP HISTOKICAL LIGHT IS LET IN UPON NEWJERSEY—ABORIGINES—THE FIRST BOARDING HOUSE—ORGAN-GRINDING AS A FINE ART. Not many generations ago New Jerseywas a buzzing wilderness—howling wouldbe a misnomer, as the tuneful mosquito hadit all to himself. *His right there was none to dispute. The tuneful mosquito was, in fact, yourtrue New Jersey aboriginal, and we donot hesitate to assert that the wildernessbuzzed. But the time came at last whenthe wilderness of New Jersey was to havesomething else to do. In the year (confound it! what yeai
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AN AXIOM, 71 was it now?) a select company of colonistslanded at Hoboken, led by one PhilipCarteret. The latter carried with him alarge supply of agricultural implements toremind the colonists that they must relymainly upon the cultivation of cabbages,and devote their energies more or less tothe manufacture of Apple Jack for theirlivelihood. But he soon saw his erroi, andimmediately cabled over for a supply ofmosquito nets to instill into their minds theaxiom that self-preservation is the firstlaw of nature. Mr. Carteret opened a boarding housein Hoboken, to be conducted on strictlytemperance principles, and devoted liisleisure to the civilizing of the aborigines;but his efforts in this direction werecrowned with but partial success. 72 THE ABORIQINAL MOSQUITO. It is an historical, but not the less melancholy fact, that the aboriginal inhabitantsof any country become effete as civiliza-tion advances. And thus it happens that,although the mosquito has been handeddown to us in modern ti

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