Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-02-17
9 AeMtifnl Galt,
TIE YOUNG ENGLISHMAN.

We copy the following story from new
work, ..T1e Arabian Days' Enterta inments,
Just issued, in l volume, price Sl,25 by
Messrs Phillips, Sampson g. Co., of Boston.
Neither the tile or rhe commencement o!
the story give any intimsation OF the pleasant
bumor which pervades the Whole after the
seere; is known, or of the excellent moral
IN he dr,wn from IT, This is but one OF
many others which make up the book and
well deserve the name Of Entertainments.
Nv Lord Sheik, in the Southern part o!
Germany lies the little city OF Grunwlasel,
where was born and bred. 1t Is small, as
al cities are in that country. In the centre
is a little market-place with fountain, an
mid yuildhall on one side, and round the
marke, houses of the justice of peace and
the more Influential merchants; ard couple
of narrow streets hold all She rest OF The
inhabitants. Al know each other; every
one knows what happens everywhere else;
and if the priest, the burgomasler, or the
doctor. has an additional dish On his table,
bv dinner time il is known to the entire
CITY. In the afternoon the ladies' 90 to each
others houses. paying visits as they Call H.
TO talk, over strcpg coffee and sweet DIS
cults. about this great event; and the gen.
ersl conclusion arrived at is that the priest
mus, have invested in lottery and won
money sipfully, or the burgomaster have
taken a bribe, or the doctor have received
money from the apoihccary on the condition
Of writing expensive prescriptions. You
,upy imagine, my lord sheik. how disagree
sb,e . circumstance it must have bsen toi
go wel:-reguIated as Grunwcisel, when
man arriy, there, OF whom nobody kne"
"a hence he came, vi hat lie wanted, or no"
he lived. The burgomaster, TO be sure Nat
,cen his passport,-a paper which every on
is obliged 10 have among us
is il SO unsafe in your streets, inter
rupted the sheik, "that you require TO nav
firman from your sultan 10 inspire roooer
with respeci!'
No. nv lord--answpredt the slave;-thes
napers are no protection against thieves
but are made necessary by the law, WHO
REQUIRES tina, it must be known everywher
wbo is who. Now. the burgomaster ma
examined the passport. and had declared
a coffee party at the Doctors, that 1t wa
certainly correctly vised from Berlin
f;runwiescl; bu, he feared there was some
,biup behind, for the man had very su:
,iciou. look about him. The burgnmasie
had great authority in the city, SO II Is Il
,ns,ter or surprise that in consequence I'll
stranger came to be regarded as Ver
doubtful character. His mode of lie d
not tend to disabuse my cUuntrymen oil IN
opinion. He hired a house for his exclrsI'
use. mt into it csrt-load of strange loci
;np furniture, such Al furnaces, sandbath
crucibles ahd the like, and lived henceio
ward entirely alone. Nay he even did h
own cooking, and his house was entered
no human being, except one old man
Grunwiesel, whose duty it was 10 buy b
bread, meat, and vegetables. Even u
person was only admitted to the lower fio'
where the stranger met him to receive
purchases.
] was a boy of ten years of age when t
stranger took up his residence in our eli
and / can call to mind, as plainly as II
had happened but yesterday, the exciteme
the man occasioned in the place. He ne'
came of an afternoon, like other people,
the bowling green; never of an evening
the tavern, 10 talk of the times over his Pl
and tobacco. In vain did the bursomast
the Justice, the doctor, the priest, each
his turn, invite him to dinner or tea; he