...t beyond the corner of a newspaper. He found that the whole department of American humor was created, so to speak, by the amazed curiosity of Englishmen. It was a phrase then rarely heard in the United States ; and if we had such a thing among us, although it might cling to our garments, we were habitually as unconscious of it as are smokers of the perfume of their favorite weed. We have accepted the phr...