Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1854-04-05

on the Arabs. said CT sslofs'A pusAfp,ltsh
To know the Arabs one must know the East.
The intensity of the sunshine is reproduced in
the Arab eye--the simeon is terrible symbol
OF those gusts of wrath, which desolate the hu-
man soul. Luxury and Incidence are the char
acterlstics MS well as fiery tempers. And we
are at loss TO reconcile the one with the other.
Our sky, as bright as it is, is not to be compar-
ed with that OF the East. After fifty days of
travel, left it fascinated by the variety of its
scenes. In its solitude, 1t resembles the ocean,
but it is sweet and refreshing. Providence
leaves none of the desert places of the earth
without some atoning quality. God has breath.
ed upon the desert this sweet and cleansing
breath. could point out many traits of re-.
semblance between the sailor and the Bedouin.
Each are free and rowing in their tastes. Among
either, you will rarely find coward a7
After speaking of the wandering Arabs, as
the type of the race, and relating several anec-
dotes in connection Herewith, he continues:
Though fierce by nature, and revengeful, the
Arab is not cruel or blood. thirsty. AS simple
enemy, he is chivalous and humane, as an aven-
ger he is terrible in the last degree. The mean
er crime of stealing is rare among the Arabs,
and though it is allowed among some tribes, yet
detection is followed by punishment. Their
greatest frailties are cheating and lying, but
they seem to look on these as an amusement.
AS this propensity is one Of the first to strike
a stranger, many travellers 60 home under very
erroneous impressions of the people. They lie
generally through malice, carelesness, and the
natural tendency TO exaggerate, which is charac-
teristic to the Arab tongue-and this latter al
most UNIVERSAL. 1t is a language of roots and
abounds in bold and brilliant images.
The OLD LADY ON NEBRASKA" Get the
Testament, Isaac, and see what it says about
the New basket BILL" said Mrs Partington,
as she came from church the other Sunday and
folded up her long shawl, and placed the bonnet
in the old Indian basket under the bed. 1T
don't say nothing about it," said Ike, who was
reading the story of the |" Avenging Sword, or
the Ghost Of the Red Tower of Lunenburg,"
and didn't want to be disturbed. "Dear Child,
said she admiringly," he is so busy with his
Sunday school books!" Ike said not word,
but kept devouring the " "Avenging sword"
with as much avidity as if it were a whole Sun
day school library-perhnps more. cit must
be in the Bible, Isaac, or our minister wouldn't
have preached about it and on Sabbath day too.
| 1t must be in the Bible. Perhaps in, the hy-
pocrisy, Isaac. At any rate if it isn't in the
good book it ought to be, for what right has
minister to dispence with the gospel if it isn't
|
the boy had got just where the "Avenging
Sword" was beginning to arenge-where the
thrilling part came in--ard was oblivious She
might as well have talked TO the ancient corpo-
raj who hung there in rigid perpendicularity
upon the wall
The YANKEES IN."--The Paris correspond
ent of the New York Tribune notices the fact
that twenty young American physicians who
have been pursuing their studies in that city the
present winter have offered to the Russian Con-
sui their services as surgeons in the Russian
army. The writer says tsaJ.
They will travel at the expense of the Gear,
and improve their knowledge of surgery at the
expense of his subjects. His Majesty may not
accept their Offer One could imagine that
ruler who phlebotomixes with the knout, and
sends delicate women to reside in Siberia,
might not care for the science of republican
physicians. Withal, as he has whole human
bodies at his command to supply the waste of
the war, he might prefer that the wounded
should die and be done with it. Corpses are
less expensive thaninvalds a fact that in the
present bad state of his finances he will be like
ly TO consider. may mention, as n characteris-
tics of American promptitude. that nearly all the
I twenty doctors volunteered for Russian CAM
pagn within ten minutes of the first proposal
made to that effect by one of their number, at
the close of one of M. Costa's lectures on en-
bryology. On the other hand, some Americans
have already left and several are going from
\ here to-day, on their way to the Turkish camp.
Among the latter are Col. Macgruder who dis
tinguished himself in the Mexican war; Mr..
Quincy Shaw, Of Boston; and his brother in
law, Mr.. William B. Green, late an independent
Unitarianish clergyman at West Brookfield,
Mass. e,f
A YOUNG ADvENTURER.-Young Ireland will
contest the palm ofprecocity with Young Amer
ica The Union relates that as the train was
about to leave for Lockport on Tuesday morn
ing, boy was discovered under the platform of
one Of the cars, hanging to the brake-rod. On
emerging from that uncomfortable place, he
8 gave the following account of himself and his
adventures His name is John King his age
is fourteen years is native of Galway, Ireland.
6 He concealed himself on board ship in that
, port, and secured passage to New York with.
! out means. At New York he secreted himself
! under the platform Of car on the Hudson Riv-
or Railroad and came to Albany he met a gen.
tleman who took so much interest in his case
}, as to pay his fare to Syracuse. AT the latter
place he again concealed himself under a car
: and came to this city. He says he is gong 10
| I,l,o md that he has au