The Washington union., 1857-11-14


and is equivalent to two thousand hundred dollars in
liquidation Suppose any one stops itusurer rogue
matters notthe loss not In the money That
not lost MOI the loss is that the hundred which
might liqudated in days journey twenty six hun
dred is arrested
The stream that should made the valley rich and
turned It's mills and touched with life its farms FAC
tories been choked up by insufficient causes and
lies dead and stagnant thing, which else might have
been benefit 70 each and all, and moved ON with und
mnished-nay, with augmented volume 10 the end Of
its course TO be again lifted into brilliant and beautiful
messengers Of confidence in the heavens and again poured
out upon expecting industry.
This the history Of the financial trouble, What
is the remedy fsR
No ONE Knows wHkRK THE SHOE plxonxs 30 WELL Az us
THAT WEARS Ir.--sI wot weel where my ain shoes bind
me- Scotch) Erskne used to say that when the hour
came that all should be revealed should know
the reason why-shoes are always made too tight The
above proyerb ID commonly ascribed to milus Panus
but the story told by Plutach leav uncertain whether
Emilus used known Illustration invented one The
relations of his wife demonstrated with him his deter
mnation repudate her, she being honorable matron
against whom no fault could be alleged. EmiIius ad
mitted the lady's worth but pointing to of his
shoes he asked the remonsants what they thought of
it. They thought it handsome we'll fitting shoe But
none Of you he reoined .'can tell where it pinches
me. =
sHAEsrEAREs SoNNEs Schegel says that sufficient use
has not been made Of Shakespeare as important
materials for his biography Let what that might
lead tb In sonnet XXXyIII he writes:
AS a decrept father delight
To see his active child do deeds Of youth
50 I, made by fortunes dearest spite,
Take all comfort Of thy worth and truth
And again. in sonnet LXXXIX:
SAY that thou diist orsake me for some fault,
and will comment upon that offence;
Against thy reasons making no defence tfala
Was Shakespeare lame Z IA question to be asked y
and there is nothing in the inquiry rcpugnant to poetic
Justice for he has made Julius Cesar deaf in his left ear
Where did he get his authority
We do not envy those who read and not enjoy the
following humorous poem by T. b. Aldrich, ayoung Amer
poet who deserves to be better known hahe s The
oriental picture with which it opens in most ludcrous
contrast with the closing For the reputation OF
our fair countrywomen, however, hope that the
picions the poet touching the fidelity of his negbor
wife had no better foundation than his own sensuous
imagination
WHEN THE SULTAN GOES 10 IsPAHAN
When ne sulaa Shah zan,on
Goes % ne city isr'ahan
Even before he gets 30 far
As the place where the clustered palm trees
AS Tho last Of the thirty palace gates,
The pei Of the haren, Rose In Bloom,
Orders Toast in his fayorite room;
Ices and sherbcts, sugared dates,
Syrian apples Ottmance ounces, ia
Lines, and cirons, and apricots,
Aud vince that the eastern princes
And Nubiln sayos, with smoking pots
that ths siaintisst palate wish
in and out or the golden doors
And scattered over the Jcweled floors
Arc anemones, myrtles, and voots
And musical fountain throws its Jets
OF an hundred colors into the mir
u The dusk Suiana loosens her lair.
And with the henna plan, the tiIs
OF hor pcarly nails, and n,oltons lips
!, With carmine water.
Waving her hand,
The dancing girls Of sumarcand
Float in like mists from Fairy land
And then to the low, voluptuous
OF music rise and fall the moons
of their fun brown bosoms Orient blood
Runs in their veins, flames in their eyes
And there, in this eastern paradise,
Filled with the fumes Of sandal wood,
And Khoten musk, and aocs myrrh,
sits Rose in Bloom . silk dyan,
SLIPPING the wines Of Alspahan;
And her Arab lover sits with her !
Thafseoaen The Sulan Shah Zaman
Goes 10 the city Ispahan.
Now when / sc An extra light
Flaming, ackcriEg on the night
FROM my hc.gnbors window opposite,
know as well as Iknow pray,
hf know ~ well as q tongue can say
TAa nc Saitan Saah zandn
For leading this sort of Orient life,
rather think, my noighbors wife 7
LINES WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF 4 PROTESTED NOTE
When merchants fondly paper,
& s5 find banks betray
What art can help them through the scrape
Suggest the means whcrewih to payf
The only way to stop each croaker,
And pay the banks to whom they trust;
To bring repentance to the broker,
And wiring his bosom, is, tto bust !"
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