XXXII.--My Ideas of the State of Texas--Why I will not Go There--The Story of a Frontier Man, 274 XXXIII.--Cincinnati--The Town--The Suburbs--A German City--"Over the Rhine"--What is a Good Patriot?--An Impressive Funeral--A Great Fire--How It Appeared to Me, and How It Appeared to the Newspaper Reporters, 279 XXXIV.--A Journey if you Like--Terrible Encounter with an American Interviewer, 296 XXXV.--The University of Indiana--Indianapolis--The Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic on the Spree--A Marvelous Equilibrist, 306 XXXVI.--Chicago (Second Visit)--Vassili Verestchagin's Exhibition--The "Angelus"--Wagner and Wagnerites-- Wanderings About the Big City--I Sit on the Tribunal, 311 XXXVII.--Ann Arbor--The University of Michigan--Detroit Again--The French Out of France--Oberlin College, Ohio-- Black and White--Are All American Citizens Equal? 322 XXXVIII.--Mr. and Mrs. Kendal in New York--Joseph Jefferson-- Julian Hawthorne--Miss Ada Rehan--"As You Like It" at Daly's Theater, 330 XXXIX.--Washington--The City--Willard's Hotel--The Politicians-- General Benjamin Harrison, U. S. President--Washington Society--Baltimore--Philadelphia, 332 XL.--Easter Sunday in New York, 342 XLI.--I Mount the Pulpit and Preach on the Sabbath, in the State of Wisconsin--The Audience is Large and Appreciative; but I Probably Fail to Please One of the Congregation, 347 XLII.--The Origin of American Humor and Its Characteristics--The Sacred and the Profane--The Germans and American Humor-- My Corpse Would "Draw," in my Impressario's Opinion, 353 XLIII.--Good-by to America--Not "Adieu," but "Au Revoir"--On Board the _Teutonic_--Home Again, 361 A FRENCHMAN IN AMERICA. CHAPTER I. DEPARTURE--THE ATLANTIC--DEMORALIZATION OF THE "BOARDERS"--BETTING--THE AUCTIONEER--AN INQUISITIVE YANKEE. _On board the "Celtic," Christmas Week, 1889._ In the order of things the _Teutonic_ was to have sailed to-day, but the date is the 25th of December, and few people elect to eat their Christmas dinner on the ocean if they can avoid it; so there are only twenty-five saloon passengers, and they have been committed to the brave little _Celtic_, while that huge floating palace, the _Teutonic_, remains in harbor.