Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-01

.fra6ic P1'over6s.-An extensive collection of the proverbal sayings and maXims current among the modern Egyptians has lately been published in London, under the above title.- They are t anslated and explained by the late MT Burckhaldt, who was a long time resi- dent at Cairo and familiar with the vulgar idi- oms of the inhabitants. The proverbs here given amount to nine hundred and ninety mine; this number might easily have been augment ed by one, but the translator has refrained from completing the thousand, adopting no- tion prevalent among Arabs, that even num- bers are unlucky, and that any thing perfect in its quantity is particularly effected by the evil eye. Many of these sayings display con- siderable shrewdness and sagacity, and are quite illustrative of the Eeastern character and habits. We subjoin a few.-BoS D. .Adu.
 "!fMou seest c zuaH inciining, run from under H. Fly from him whose power is tot tering or whom danger threatens
 "Strike the innocent That the gully may confess. What judicial maxim! It is re- lated that in an intricate law suit, the kadby caused a person avowedly innocent to be bas- tinadoed. When the poor man complained, the kadby declared that he beat him merely with the hope that whoever was the real cul- prit might be induced to confess out of com | passion"
 T NSH HfW IVGO Wf TIpeI' UUu ne TU1L[ TlSe | zoHh q fish in his mouth. This is said of lucky or highly fortunate person. "Be ofgood memory # you 6ecome liar. Lest you contradict yourself.
 | "He fled from the rain and sat do7vn un- der zcater-shom. He ran fromFbad into worse.'
 "Like c needle that clothes heohle and is itaelf naked. This alludes to persons under similar circumstances. The same meaning is more forcibly expressed in the. following verses
 have become like a wick placed in a lamp. It affords light to people while itselfis burnt"
 ''IfI qvere to trade in zvindmg sheets no one 7vouid die. Said of person unfortunate in commercial speculations.
 ''1e advances one leg and draws. back the other He wants decision and is unstable in all his actions"
 "The enmity of the wise,'- rather than the friendship of the fool.'
 "He finds no ascent to heavan and no zeal on earth. Said of one so perplexed and em- barrassed that he knows not where to turn, I"
 Mechanic's Wfves-Speaking of middle ranks of life, good writer observes :-There we behold women in all her glory not doll to carry silks and jewels, not puppet to be dangled by fops, all idol for profane adoration; reverenced to-day, discarded tomorrow, all ways jossled out of the place which nature and society would assign her, by sensuality or contempt; admired, but not respected; desir- ed, but not esteemed; ruling by passion, not affection; impairing her weakness, not her constancy, to the sex which she should exalts the source and mirror of vanity; we see her as wife partaking the cares, and cheering the anxiety of husband; dividing the labors by her domestic diligence, spreading cheer fulness around her; for his sake sharing the decent refinements of the world without be- ing vain of them placing all her pride, all her joy, all her happiness, in the man she loves. As a mother, we find her affectionate, the ardent instructress of the children she has tended from their infancy; training them up to thought and virtue, to meditation and be- nevolence; addressing them as rational be- ings, and preparing them to become men and women in their turn. Mechanics daughters make the best wives in the world.